Personality disorders

The Comedian is the rival of this novel, He is in all likelihood a sufferer of Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD). ASPD is portrayed by "a pervasive example of negligence for, and infringement of, the privileges of others that starts in youth or early youthfulness and proceeds into adulthood." While APSD sufferers are regularly called "sociopaths" this is in the well known, not the clinical meaning of the term. Mental cases only need compassion – psychopathy without anyone else 's input can…

This disorder affects 5.9% of adults and most of them are women (75% of people with disorder are females). Several things are believed to lead to this disorder including not being accepted as a child, abuse during childhood, an overactive amygdala, an abnormal 5-HTT gene, a “combination of internal and external forces”, or a rapid changing culture. People affected by this disorder are prone to mood swings, extreme reactions, an unstable and…

psychopathy, sociopathy and other Cluster B personality disorders are very blurred to say the least. Even more so because Mark is still under the age of 18 which is the age when you can start properly diagnosing someone with mental diseases. So this will be a very loose diagnosis. There is a certified test called the PCL-R (Psychopathy Checklist Revised) to help asses the presence of psychopathy in people. When filling this out using Mark’s personality and actions in the book as a guide he…

Ms. Fense was administered a battery of objective and projective personality tests, including the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), the Personality Inventory-3 (NEO-PI-3), Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI), Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Drawing Tests (House, Tree, Person and Person in Rain), Adult Sentence Completion Serious, the Strong Interest Inventory (the Strong), and the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (KBIT2). The Symptom Checklist 90-R…

for. He had never met her, only admired her from afar. One day he saw her walking with young officers and he immediately went into a jealous rage and said the whole officer class was now his enemy. This is another great example of the borderline personality, as it was from those two officers who weren’t knowingly hurting Hitler that, he decided to put them into the “all-bad” category. After this happened, Hitler told Kubizek that he had a plan to kidnap her, but Kubizek was able to convince him…

about the movie split. The character in that movie has a personality disorder, and it was extremely interesting to watch and learn about. 3Personality disorder is characterized by enduring maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition, and inner experience. 4The movie split is about three girls who get kidnapped by a man that is diagnosed with 523 distinct personalities. The girls try to escape from him before his 24th frightful personality emerges. In this paper I will be giving examples from…

When you think of the word terrorist what is the first thing that comes to mind? Perhaps an airplane hijacker, a heatless assassin, a suicide bomber, a religious fanatic or are these all stereotypes and misconceptions? But what do all of these individuals have in common? Do they share specific characteristics and if so can we identify potential terrorists? What drives these individuals to do such horrific acts of violence? What must have snapped in their head and convinced them that what they…

In the 1999, biography, Girl, interrupted, Susanna Kaysen is diagnosed with a personality disorder at the age of 18. Beforehand, Susanna was experiencing unstable episodes and undergoing promiscuous activities. This later resulted in Susanna attempting to commit suicide by swallowing a bottle of aspirin with alcohol. Thereafter, Susanna reconciled and voluntarily committed herself to a psychiatric facility. Throughout her time, Susanna was impacted severely by others actions and was influenced…

Comorbidity Posttraumatic stress disorder is estimated to occur in 8% of the population; the prevalence rates increase dramatically in persons suffering from other mental disorders (Iribarren et al., 2008). Approximately 80% of people who suffer with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder suffer from an additional co-occurring disorder. Posttraumatic stress disorder can be caused in a myriad of ways. Posttraumatic stress disorder occurs in response to a traumatic event by an individual. However, no…

There are many different mental disorders that affect people throughout the world. One of the leading causes for the development of mental illnesses is trauma. Trauma plays a significant role in the development of borderline personality disorder. McLean and Gallop (2003) express that the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder was quite higher in patients that suffered from trauma in their childhood, than the patients that experienced trauma in their adult life. This portrays that trauma…