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Personality disorders - DSM-IV describes three major clusters based on symptoms
- Cluster A
- Peranoid personality
- Schizoid personality
- Cluster B
- Borderline Personality
- Histrionic Personality
- Narcisitic personality
- Cluster C
- Avoidanty personality
- Dependent Personality
- Obessive-compulisive
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Cluster A
- Paranoid personality symptoms include
- -indifference
- -suspicousness
- hostality
- Schizoid personality symptoms include:
- -apperance of having a cold personality
- -being self-absorbed and withdrawn
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Cluster B
- Borderline Personality Symptoms include
- -unstable mood characterized by crisis and anger alternating with depression
- -prone to promiscuity and sybstance abuse
- Histrionic personality symptoms include
- -theratrical and exagggerated emotional behavior
- -prone to flamboyancy
- Narcisitic personality
- -exaggerated self-image
- -tendency to think little of other
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Cluster C
- Avoidanty personality symptoms include
- -appears shy and timid
- -fear relationships
- -strong desire to be accepted
- Dependent personality symptoms include
- -extremely poor self-image
- Obessive-compulisive personality include
- -dependable
- -meticulous
- -orderly
- -intolerant of mistakes
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Treatments of personality disorders
- psychotherapy
- medications - anxiolytics, antidepressants, antipyschotics
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Sucide
- almost always associated with mental illness which is normally has no overt physical signs
- men are 4 times more likely to die from suicides than women
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Sucide is contemplated when there is
- feelings of hopelessness
- inability to see alternatives solutions to confusions, mental , and physical anguish and chaos
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Suicide - Risk factors include
- Previous suicide attempts
- family history of suicides
- history of sexual abuse
- bullying
- major losses - divorce, employment, incarceration, chronic illness
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