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A personality disorder involving instability in relationships, self-image, and emotions, often with impulsivity and intense fear of abandonment.
Borderline personality
A personality disorder involving a persistent pattern of excessive emotional expression and attention-seeking.
Histrionic personality
Intentionally misleading someone through lying, concealment, or other dishonest behavior.
Deceit
A personality disorder involving detachment from social relationships, limited desire for close connections, and restricted emotional expression.
Schizoid personality
Interpreting unrelated events, remarks, or other people’s actions as having special personal meaning, without the fixed certainty of a delusion.
Ideas of reference
A personality disorder involving discomfort with close relationships, unusual beliefs or perceptions, and eccentric speech or behavior.
Schizotypal personality
An informal, nonstandard label often used for someone with persistent disregard for others’ rights; it is not a separate formal diagnosis.
Sociopath
A personality disorder involving grandiosity, a strong need for admiration, entitlement, and difficulty recognizing others’ feelings and needs.
Narcissistic personality
A personality disorder involving a persistent disregard for others’ rights, often including deceitfulness, irresponsibility, impulsivity, and limited remorse.
In psychodynamic theory, the ability to maintain a stable, integrated emotional view of someone despite separation, frustration, or conflict.
Object constancy
The presence of both a mental health disorder and a substance use disorder; commonly called co-occurring disorders.
Dual diagnosis
A personality disorder involving social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and strong sensitivity to criticism or rejection despite wanting connection.
Avoidant personality
A defense mechanism involving viewing oneself or others as entirely good or entirely bad, with difficulty integrating positive and negative qualities.
Splitting
Influencing another person indirectly or deceptively to obtain a desired response or outcome.
Manipulation
A person’s characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, behaving, and relating to others.
Personality
Early-emerging, partly biologically influenced tendencies in emotional reactivity, activity level, and self-regulation.
Temperament
A non-DSM diagnostic label associated with traits such as callousness, limited remorse, deceitfulness, and antisocial behavior; it is not interchangeable with every case of antisocial personality disorder.
Psychopath
Acting quickly on urges without adequately considering consequences.
Impulsivity
Excessive or unfounded suspicion and mistrust, often involving beliefs that others intend to harm, deceive, or exploit the person.
Paranoia
A personality disorder involving an excessive need to be cared for, difficulty making independent decisions, submissive behavior, and fear of separation.
Dependent personality
Enduring, inflexible patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that differ markedly from cultural expectations and cause significant distress or impaired functioning.
Personality disorders
Sociable and inclined to seek and enjoy the company of others.
Gregarious
A personality disorder involving rigid perfectionism and preoccupation with order and control that interfere with flexibility and completing tasks;
Obsessive-compulsive personality