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Performance characteristics of Paranoid personality Disorder

1. Widespread suspicion. Involuntary, non-despiteful actions are often misinterpreted as hostility or discrimination. They suspect that they will be hurt without sufficient basis and act with inordinate vigilance and defense.

2. Things around are interpreted as the “conspiracy” which does not meet the actual situation.

3. Easy to produce morbid jealousy.

4. Conceited excessively. They always think they are right. They attribute frustration or failure to others.

5. They often hate others and can not tolerate other people’s wrong.

6. They often argue and antagonize others. They often pursue unreasonable rights or interests stubbornly.

7. Neglect or mis-doubt the facts that are not accordant with their thought. So it is difficult to change their thought through truth and principle.

Paranoid personality disorder Treatment

1. Be aware of performance characteristics of paranoid personality disorder. Build up a right and objective awareness of self and voluntarily generate requests of changing personality defects. This is a further prerequisite for psychotherapy.

2. Go into training of making friends. Learn to trust others and eliminate a sense of unease. The principles and essentials are following.

(1) Maintain a positive attitude in good faith towards making friends. Believe that most people are friendly and reliable. Never maintain a distrustful and highly subjective attitude towards your friends. It must be pointed out that the purpose of making friends is to seek friendship and help, share thoughts and feelings, and overcome paranoid personality disorder.

(2) Try your best to help your friends actively especially when they are in trouble. This helps to get each other’s trust and consolidate the friendship. A friend is best found in adversity.

(3) Similar personality and temperament help psychological compatibility and improve friendship. In addition, gender, age, occupation, cultural education, economic level, social status and hobbies are also psychological compatibility issues. This is a psychological basis for consolidating cooperation and friendship.

3. Self therapy. People with paranoid personality often run to an extreme, which is associated with the irrational beliefs. Therefore, in order to change the paranoid personality, analyzing self irrational beliefs is very important.

(1) I can not tolerate a shred of treachery.

(2) There is no good person in the world. I only believe in myself.

(3) As for other people’s offensive, I must launch a strong counterattack and let them know that I am stronger than them.

(4) I will never show gentleness because it may give people the feeling that I am not strong enough.

Now make over these concepts and remove extreme elements.

(1) I am not King; occasional treachery should be forgiven.

(2) Good guys and bad guys still exist in this world, and I should trust those who are nice.

(3) As for other people’s offensive, it may not be the best way of launching an immediate counterattack. What is more, I must discern whether I am under a real attack.

(4) I dare not express my true emotion, and this fact per se is a representation of weakness.

Once relapse comes to you, rational concepts I have mentioned above should be meditated in order to prevent extreme behaviors.

4. Go into training of correcting hostility and distrust. People with paranoid personality often express hostility and distrust to people around them. Following trainings are helpful to overcome this mentality.

(1) Constantly remind yourself not trapped in the vortex of hostility. This will significantly reduce the hostility and psychological reaction.

(2) Understand that a good relationship is based on mutual respect. Learn to thank people for their help to you.

(3) Learn to smile on everyone you know. You may not get used to that at the beginning or do it unnaturally, but you must do it and do it well.

(4) Learn to be tolerant and patient in life. Making a living in such a complex world, conflicts, disputes, and frictions are inevitable. At this time, you must be patient and restrained. Never let yourself be burned with confusion and irascibility.

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Every person has its own character. Some people are introvert and others are extrovert, some are very neurotic and others not. Personality is unmatched in every person as there are not 2 persons alike. Sometimes personality has some traits that make it impossible to function properly in society. When this is the case we often speak of personality disorders.

It is strange to say that when you are a psychologist you will give every person you meet a mini-diagnoses. You do not do this on purpose, it is instinctively looking at everyone you meet how the person is and what traits he has. When you work at a nursery home this will not work at all as most persons have some traits that make it impossible to function. Most elderly also have a multitude of disorders. This makes it very hard to diagnose some one with just one disorder.

Although personality disorders are very common in middle aged people, they are not that often diagnosed in a nursery home. This is probably so because a doctor will more likely look at a kidney malfunction than at someone his personality. However, there is one sort of personality disorder that is not likely to miss and that one is the Borderline Personality disorder.

You can easily recognize someone with Borderline personality disorder as these persons are very good in claiming your attention on a passive aggressive way. They know very well how to manipulate you and others and in that way get as much attention as needed. Dealing with these disorders is very hard as a person with borderline is not able to empathize feelings of others.

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A mnemonic that can be used to remember the criteria for histrionic personality disorder: PRAISE ME.

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▪R – relationships, considered more intimate than they are
▪A – attention, must be at center of
▪I – influenced easily
▪S – speech (style) – wants to impress, lacks detail
▪E – emotional lability, shallowness
▪M – make-up – physical appearance used to draw attention to self
▪E – exaggerated emotions – theatrical

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Borderline Personality Disorder is not as common as Bipolar, and also we know less about this illness. Twenty percent of hospital admissions for mental illness are diagnosed with this disorder, while fifty percent of hospitalizations for mental illness are bipolar patients. Young women are the group more known to develop Borderline Personality Disorder, while bipolar affects both men and women equally regardless of age.

Mood swings such as anxiety, depression and violent flare ups are experienced in both patients with Borderline Personality Disorder and those with Bipolar. With Bipolar patients these symptoms can last weeks or months in a cycle, whilst in Borderline Personality Disorder it may only last a few hours or a day.

With Borderline Personality Disorder, a patient can reach periods where they they do not know what their likes and dislikes are, who they are as a person or their personal preferences. Their long term goals may change quite often, and trying to stick to one activity becomes difficult. They act on impulse with overeating, shopping sprees and may indulge in sexual liaisons with strangers. Mania is also present in bipolar patients.

Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder also experience emptiness, feelings of being misunderstood or mistreated and worthlessness; much like the symptoms felt in depression of patients with Bipolar.

In terms of relationships, a patient with Borderline Personality Disorder will have extremes of being totally besotted or hating someone with a passion. One minute they will be in love, then a small upset or conflict will instantly make them hate that person. If they fear being abandoned, the patient gets depressed, feels rejection and may threaten suicide. Bipolar patients also have these issues when it comes to relationships.

Treatments for both disorders are also similar. A psychiatrist will prescribe both medication and therapy, the preferred choice. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy was originally developed in patients with Borderline Personality Disorder, but found to be successful for Bipolar patients. There are various medications for both mental illnesses which have been to achieve good results.

There is little known about both illnesses which are thought to be either genetic or due to the environment. Research shows that the nature of Bipolar is more biological and hereditary, whereas Borderline Personality Disorder is due more to the stimuli of the environment and situations.

These similarities show that either illness is difficult to distinguish and diagnose, for doctors and psychologists, too. Anyone who is suffering from these symptoms should medical or professional advice for the correct diagnosis and treatment. Self diagnosis is not the best way to go about treating your symptoms especially with Bipolar and Borderline Personality Disorder. A psychiatrist or psychologist is the best person to advise you in order for successful treatment to be prescribed, and give you the best chance for managing your mental illness for a better future.

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The schizotypal personality is described as a severe disorder in which a person has very little or no intimate relationships with others. They experience intense anxiety when faced with social interaction, and thus, avoid it altogether.

People with this type of personality disorder are unable to socialize with others and are perceived as possibly being unfriendly. They isolate themselves and cultivate false beliefs about how relationships develop. Their behaviours are often very strange, delivering improper responses in social situations, and fostering bizarre beliefs.

The onset of this disorder commonly starts in young adults and continues all through life. No cure exists, but can be managed with the help of psychotherapy and medications. Studies indicate that positive events during early childhood can help to decrease symptoms experienced by young people who suffer from this disorder.

What are the symptoms:

Schizotypal personalities are often people who spend most of their time alone and have very few friends, if any at all. They find themselves feeling anxious in the company of others, due to trust issues, and feel they do not belong in the main stream. They have problems similar to schizophrenia, which include:

- Strange and disordered speech - Dresses oddly - Abnormal view of the world - Believe they have the power to emotionally control others

Adolescents may exhibit signs of:

- Isolation and solitude - Extreme social anxiety - Socially delayed in relation to peer group - They are often picked on and bullied by others.

Other common symptoms include:

- Difficulty correctly interpreting events - Odd beliefs and behaviour patterns - Believe they possess special powers - Complaints of phantom pain - Incoherent speech patterns - Paranoia - Little or no friends - Intense anxiety in social situations

The schizotypal personality may be similar to shizophrenia, but is not as extreme. In addition, people with this personality disorder are able distinguish between reality and imagination, while those with schizophrenia have lost touch with reality and cannot discern reality from what they imagine.

Causes:

The cause of this mental disorder is unknown, but being abused and neglected during childhood, stress, and having a close relative with this disorder may be factors. People with schizotypal personalities are also at risk for developing schizophrenia, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, and other associated mental conditions.

Treatment:

Treatment for this condition usually involves antipsychotic medications to control symptoms, and psychotherapy sessions with a trained mental health professional. Sessions and activities may include behavioural, cognitive, and family therapies.

Families are encouraged to actively participate in attending sessions and offering their loved one the needed support in learning new skills to cope with schizotypal personality disorder.