Personality Disorders2025-07-11T11:55:07+01:00

Personality Disorders (General)

A set of Health issues that compose Personality Disorders involves a long-lasting tendency of behaviour, thoughts, and emotional control that is significantly and perceptibly atypical according to culturally upheld expectations. Such patterns frequently lead to severe distress or impairment of functioning and people are hardly able to preserve normal relationships or be successful in their daily lives.

Personality Disorders (General) Overview

Understanding Causes, Symptoms, and Risk Factors

Causes

  • Heredity or family background

  • Traumatic child exposure / abuse
  • Unstable home environment or neglect Neglected or unstable home environment
  • Physical brain structure and imbalance of chemicals
  • Death of one of their parents or caregivers at an early age
  • Maladaptive family relationship Each of the following is true of dysfunctional family relationship:
  • The Cultural or social factors
  • Birth complications or Prenatal complications
  • Weakness in emotional regulations
  • Cope and learning development is formed at an early age

Symptoms vary depending on the specific personality disorder but may include:

  • Such skewed thinking Fred Bengston and John J. Palmer described as distorted thinking that occurs when the victim is too focused on someone to think clearly.

  • Disturbed emotional reactions
  • Poor response to other people
  • Unsteady or strong relationships
  • Impulsive behavior or dangerous behavior
  • Persistent emptiness
  • Unacceptable anger or anger out of control.
  • Abandonment phobia
  • Emotional coldness
  • Static and pathological behavioral scheme

Risk Factors

It is riskier to have parents or close relatives having personality disorders or other mental disorders or depression.

Emotional or physical sexual abuse during the tender years of life may cause problems in personality later on.

A normal personality development may be disturbed by the childhood growth into a disorganized, emotionally distant, or unengaged family.

Can Personality Disorders be prevented?

 

In some cases, Personality Disorders are not preventable, in particular, when genetics or childhood brain development are at stake. Nevertheless, with early intervention and a healthy environment, the risk or the severity can be greatly minimized. These are some measures to help avoid or control personality disorders:

  • Repeatedly cited is therapy, at which Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) has been found especially successful with borderline personality disorder (BPD).
  • Maladaptive thoughts and behaviours that are related to personality disorders can also be dealt with using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Schema Therapy.

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