her temper have cause stormy relationships with others and has affected her in her job as an public relations consultant. Symptoms and Diagnosis One of the patient’s symptoms is that she is very moody and often has episodes of depression. People with Borderline personality disorder have “recurring suicidal behaviors or threats or self-harming behavior, such as cutting” (nimh.nih.gov), which she is showing. Her outburst from her…
Paranoid personality disorder is characterized by on ongoing distrust for other people based on the unsupported belief that people are out to get them by tying to trick, harm, or exploit them. The symptoms of this disorder can include hostile and jealous behavior, unwillingness to release personal information in fear it will be used against them and they may display unwarranted counterattacks in response to compliments and social interaction. Signs and symptoms may also include controlling and…
WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER? WOKADALA REBEKAH PIERCE COLLEGE Paranoid personality disorder (PDD) is one of a group of conditions called eccentric personality disorders. People with this order often are peculiar. Paranoid personality is unwarranted tendency to interpret the actions of people as deliberately threatening or demeaning it is also…
Diagnosis(es): paranoid personality disorder Treatment Recommendation(s): psychotherapy cognitive behavioral therapy interpersonal therapy medications such as diazepam or thioridazine (to help with symptoms such as anxiety or delusions) Justification: According to the DSM-5, paranoid personality disorder is defined as the extreme distrust and suspiciousness of others to a point where an individuals motives may be construed as malignant. Thus, an inidividual must meet four or more of the…
paranoia, which is recognized today as a disorder. Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD) is defined by Psychology Today as, “A thought process believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of delusion and irrationality” (2017). This disorder surfaces from distrusting and having suspicions of others, affecting the patient’s social and personal life immensely. Paranoia usually begins in early adulthood and studies have shown that it is most common in males (Cleveland…
Phillip Dowd has a Narcissistic and Paranoid personality disorders. He was only concerned with himself and things that would personally benefit him. He has problems creating and maintaining relationships with his coworkers because he is only concerned with himself. Dowd, also frequently talked down to everyone and believed he was a superior being. This caused him to frequently lose jobs. Combine his disorder with his need to be a savior, it led him to being physical harm to others in order to…
The diagnostic criteria require that the behaviors must appear in two or more of the certain areas, which are the perception of self, the intensity and duration of feelings towards situations, relationships with people around, and the ability to control self. Analyzing Richards’s case, he loses touch with his family members as is well noted once he gets to high school where his character changes and he drops school. The onset of personality disorders is around the age when Richards begins to…
an overview of the complex approach to assessing the personalities of political leaders in hopes of developing an objective personality profile. The basic foundation involved in assessing a political personality combines identifying and evaluating the influence of key events and patterns in the individual's life chronology, a longitudinal analysis, and an in-depth examination of specific characteristics relevant to the role of a leader, a cross-sectional analysis (Post 2005, 69-70, 77). While…
diagnoses I considered were Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Schizotypal Personality Disorder, and Substance Abuse Disorder. I thought OCD because Caleb meets the presence of obsessions and compulsions. The obsession is Caleb trying to ignore and suppress thoughts of anger and emotions and suppressing them by not making eye contact and keeping his feelings “in a cage” being…
borderline personality disorder (BPD) Common characteristics (if 5 or more apply you may have bpd) strong efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment intense and unstable interpersonal relationships distorted and unstable sense of self impulsiveness commonly associated with sex, drug abuse, and risk taking recurrent suicidal thoughts, gestures, and behaviors emotional instability, periods of depression, irritability, and anxiety Feelings of emptiness inappropriate intense anger or lack of…