Paranoid personality disorder

Psychologists define personality referring to qualities within a person, characteristics of a person’s behaviour or both. According to Allport (1937), “Personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to his environment. Personality is actually the pattern of thoughts, feelings and behaviour that makes us who we are. In various situations every individual thinks, feels and reacts in a different and unique manner.…

Antisocialism is often confused with narcissisms because of the similar symptoms. However, this personality disorder is seen in people with aggressive traits and impulsive actions. Patients have symptoms of extreme detachment and are constantly hurting people, physically and mentality, with little feelings of guilt or remorse for their actions (Lahey 484). Another major trait of the disorder in people is the ability to lie very well. The need to lie to coworkers, friends, family, spouses, in…

Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper) is a man diagnosed with bi-polar disorder who has just been checked out of a mental institution. His road to recovery is extremely tough until he meets Tiffany Maxwell (Jennifer Lawrence) who is suffering from depression along with self-destructive promiscuity. Through a mutual agreement, they both indirectly start to help each other address their issues. They set a goal, a dance competition, and take baby steps to achieve that and ultimately bring closure to both…

depression or PTSD. These diagnoses are simply incorrect. Throughout his novel, The Catcher and the Rye, J.D. Salinger alludes to one condition more than any other, histrionic personality disorder. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (“Histrionic” 667), histrionic personality disorder is “A pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by...the…

tension and negative affect experienced by the respondent as it is manifested across different diagnostic categories were 47T for Affective (ANX-A), 41T for Cognitive (ANX-C), and 41T for Physiological (ANX-P). Sandra’s scores on Anxiety-Related Disorder (ARD) were 41T on Obsessive- Compulsive (ARD-O), 44T on Phobias (ARD-P), and 45T on Traumatic Stress (ARD-S). Sandra’s scores on Depression were 47T for Cognitive (DEP-C), 43T for Physiological (DEP-P), 47T for Affective (DEP-A). Depression…

suspicious/paranoid of others, exhibited a lack of empathy, suddenly become emotional and aggressive, then it’s possible for an altercation to occur with another individual. But this would be more of an unanticipated murder, as opposed to a planned one, like most psychopathic serial killers (Pemment). After looking at another cluster B disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, or NPD, the article stated that there wasn’t a direct link between NPD and serial killing. The last disorder…

led to improved knowledge of mental illnesses. Today, mental illness or mental disorder is defined as “a mental or bodily condition marked primarily by sufficient disorganization of personality, mind, and emotions to seriously impair the normal psychological functioning of the individual” (Merriam-Webster, 2015). The WHO (2014) defines mental health as “a state of well-being in which every individual…

Borderline Personality Disorder For centuries people have been researching to find out just exactly why people do what they do. Over this time disorders and conditions has been discovered to explain and ultimately answer this question. Physical and mental symptoms have recorded in order to find out if a person has a disorder. Lots of people every day find out what seems to separate them from what society would consider normal. Today, all mental disorders are placed in their own classes.…

thoughts and feelings, severe dysfunctional interruptions to daily life and ongoing endangerment of the self and/or others (Comer, 2015). These areas of abnormal functioning must be wholly assessed prior to the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders (Comer, 2015). To accomplish this, specific symptomatic behaviours are compared and contrasted with etiological and diagnostic features as well as biological, sociocultural and…

Great Expectations Miss. Havisham has borderline personality disorder. Mrs. Havisham shows signs of being extremely harmful, not only to herself but too her daughter. How she is harmful to her daughter is she has destroyed her daughter's perception on men. She persuaded Estella to pursue Pip, to break his heart. Mrs havisham whispered “Break their hearts!” into Estella's ear. Another reason is she is very anti-social, this is a sign of this disorder. She has no friends, no life, she stays…