Personality

Narcissistic Personality Disorder Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is a mental disorder that causes people to think that they are more superior and important than anyone else. People with NPD have a hard time interacting with other people. There is no evidence of an exact cause of NPD, but most researchers believe it develops during childhood and adolescence and reaches it’s peak in adulthood. The basic treatment for NPD is hospitalization and psychotherapy. Mayo Clinic defines…

3 Alternative care to NPs CHAPTER 1 What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)? Not everyone who brags or is vain is a narcissist. Each one of us has some of the traits mentioned in the previous chapter but that doesn’ t automatically make us all narcissists. It is important to be able to spot the narcissist in your life because he can leave you emotionally or even physically battered. The narcissist will exploit or hurt others without any feelings of remorse. His own personal gain is…

behavior, emotion, and thoughts in order to diagnose someone with a mental illness or psychiatric disorder. One such psychiatric disorder is borderline personality disorder (BPD). BPD is characterized by intense fluctuations in mood, self-image, and interpersonal relationships (Sue, D., Sue, D. W., & Sue 2010). People who suffer from this personality disorder tend to be impulsive, show chronic feelings of emptiness, and tend to form unstable and intense interpersonal relationships (Sue, D.,…

Personality is an organised whole concept which acts towards the fulfilment of different objectives. Personality is the sum total of all tendencies that an individual has inherited and that he has acquired from his environment. Environment here would mean a combination of experience, family, socio-cultural background and legal factors. Personality is a term that comes to our mind whenever a discussion around a person’s job prospects, achievements, attitude, aptitude, perception, values or…

THEORIES Personality traits, or characteristics that predict their behavior consistently across a wide range of situations. The predominant trait theory, the Big Five theory, finds that these traits are extraversion/introversion, neuroticism, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. The trait theorists believe that there are certain core personality characteristics that, once developed in each of us, remain relatively stable throughout our life and thus comprise our…

Borderline Personality Disorder is a mental disorder characterized by unstable moods, behaviors, and relationships. The first diagnosis of borderline personality disorder was developed in 1938 by Adolph Stern. He published an article which described the symptoms of borderline personality disorder in detail, suggests the cause of the disorder, lists the most effective type of psychotherapy, and finally, names the disorder after the patients he referred to as “the border line group” (Friedel,…

In Parry’s case, he is diagnosed with a moderate case of Schizotypal Personality Disorder (SPD). His symptoms are antisocial behaviors, transcendent beliefs, delusions, erratic subculture norms, paranoid ideation, and irregular thinking/speech. To support Perry’s Diagnoses, in criteria a, it specifies that an individual with SPD experiences delusions (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). With this being said, he reported how he communicates to God is by little flying people who can only be…

Personality Disorders According to the largest study ever conducted on personality disorders by the U.S. National Institutes of Health about ten percent of the U.S. population has borderline personality disorder. Borderline Personality Disorder obviously doesn’t affect everyone, but for those that suffer from it, it surely isn’t an easy thing to cope with. Personality disorders are characterized by a maladaptive thought pattern, feelings, and/or behaviors that can cause serious detriments to…

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is not Manic/Bipolar disorder, nor is it multiple personality disorder. It is defined as “A mental disorder characterized by unstable moods, behaviour, and relationships.” (“Borderline,” Mayo) This mental disorder is easily misdiagnosed as another mental disorder. The history of the disorder, characteristics and causes, and finally the diagnosis and the treatment are important for understanding borderline personality disorder. Borderline personality disorder…

Personality refers to the emotional and physical environment or surrounding that influences the behavior or character of an individual. Through this, the consistent or stable behavior, attitude, interest and capabilities of a person are used to predict their reaction to particular circumstances. Personality development, therefore, is believed to be coined from two significant and contrasting theories, psychodynamic and social learning theories. The psychodynamic theory is among the first…