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Paranoid Personality: SUSPECT
- Spouse fidelity suspected
- Unforgiving (bears grudges)
- Perceives attacks (& reacts quickly)
- "Enemy or friend" (suspects associated & friends)
- Confiding in others feared
- Threats perceived in benign events
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Schizoid Personality: DISTANT
- Detached (or flattended affect)
- Indifferent to criticism or praise
- Sexual experiences of little interest
- Tasks (activities) done solitarily
- Absense of close friends
- Neither desires nor enjoys close relations
- Takes pleasure in few activities
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Schizotypal Personality: ME PECULIAR
- Magical thinking or odd beliefs
- Experience unusual perceptions
- Paranoid ideation
- Eccentric behavior or appearance
- Constricted (or inappropriate) affect
- Unusual (odd) thinking and speech
- Lacks close friends
- Ideas of reference
- Anxiety in social situations
- Rule out psychotic disorders
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Borderline Personality Disorder: AM SUICIDE
- Abandonement
- Mood instability (marked reactivity of mood)
- Suicidal (or self-mutilating) behavior
- Unstable & intense relationships
- Impulsivity (in two potentially self-damaging areas)
- Control of anger
- Identity Disturbance
- Dissociative (or paranoid) symptoms that are transient & stress related
- Emptiness (chronic feelings of)
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Antisocial Personality Disorder: CORRUPT
- Conformity to law lacking
- Obligations ignored
- Reckless disregard for safety of self or others
- Remorse lacking
- Underhanded (deceitful, lies, cons others)
- Planning insufficient (impulsive)
- Temper (irritable and aggressive)
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder: SPE3CIAL
- Special (believes he or she is special and unique)
- Preoccupied with fantasies (of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty or ideal love)
- Envious (of others, or believes others are envioius of him or her)
- Entitlement
- Excess admiration required
- Conceited (grandiose sense of self importance)
- Interpersonal exploitation
- Arrogant
- Lacks empathy
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Avoidant Personality Disorder: CRINGES
- Certainty (of being liked required before willing to get involved with others)
- Rejection (or criticism) preoccupies ones' thought in social situations
- Intimate relationships (restraint in intimate relationships due to fear of being shamed)
- New interpersonal relationships (is inhibited in)
- Gets around occupational activity (involving significant interpersonal contact)
- Embarassment (potential) prevents new activity or taking personal risks
- Self viewed (as unappealing, inept, or inferior)
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Dependent Personality Disorder: RELIANCE
- Reassurance (required for decisions)
- Expressing disagreement difficult (due to fear of loss of support or approval)
- Life responsibilities (needs to have these assumed by others)
- Initiating projects difficult (due to lack of self confidence)
- Alone (feels helplessness & discomfort when alone)
- Nurturance (goes to excessive lengths to obtain nurturance and support)
- Companionship (another relationship) sought urgently when close relationship ends
- Exaggerated fears of being left to care for self
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Obssessive Compulsive Personality: LAW FIRMS
- Loses point of activity (preoccupations with details)
- Ability to complete tasks (compromised by perfectionism)
- Worthless objects (unable to discard)
- Friendships (& leisure activities) excluded (due to preoccupations with work)
- Inflexible, scrupulous, over conscientious (on ethics, values or morality)
- Reluctant to delegate (unless others submit to exact guidelines)
- Miserly (toward self and others)
- Stubborness (& rigidity)
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