Psychiatry

PERSONALITY DISORDER

Personality Disorder is a pattern of needing to be taken care of submissive and clingy behaviour. People with dependent personality disorder may feel difficulty making daily decisions without any reassurance from others or may feel uncomfortable or helpless when they are alone because of fear of inability to take care of them. A personality disorder is a way of thinking and feeling and behaving that deviates from the expectations of the culture and causes distress or problems functioning and lasts over time.  

Types of Personality Disorders

• Avoidant personality disorder: a pattern of extreme shyness and feelings of inadequacy and extreme sensitivity to criticism. People with avoidant personality disorder may be unwilling to get involved with people unless they are certain of being liked to be preoccupied with being criticized or rejected
•  Borderline personality disorder: a pattern of instability in personal relationships, intense emotions with poor self-image and impulsivity. A person with borderline personality disorder may go to great lengths to avoid being abandoned to have repeated suicide attempts and display inappropriate intense anger or have on going feelings of emptiness.