Personality Disorder Basics
What are personality disorders?
These are enduring patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that deviate from cultural expectations.
This cluster is known as “odd and eccentric.”
What is Cluster A?
This Cluster A disorder involves distrust and suspicion of others.
What is Paranoid Personality Disorder?
People with personality disorders can never improve
Myth. Treatment helps many people reduce symptoms and build healthy coping skills.
This character from Euphoria displays emotional instability, fear of abandonment, and chaotic relationships traits consistent with Borderline Personality Disorder.
Who is Cassie Howard?
Personality disorders typically begin during this developmental stage.
What is adolescence/early adulthood?
Avoidant, Dependent, and Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorders belong to this cluster.
What is Cluster C?
This disorder involves unstable moods, self-image, and relationships.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
Personality disorders usually begin in adulthood
Myth. They typically begin in adolescence.
The Joker is often wrongly labeled with schizophrenia; clinicians say his traits more closely resemble this disorder.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
What is the categorical model?
This model views disorders as distinct boxes you either do or do not fit into.
Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, and Narcissistic Personality Disorders belong to this cluster.
What is Cluster B?
This Cluster B disorder involves excessive emotionality and attention-seeking.
What is Histrionic Personality Disorder?
Cluster B disorders involve dramatic or emotional behavior
Fact.
This character from Breaking Bad has been cited as showing traits of Narcissistic Personality Disorder due to entitlement and grandiosity.
Who is Walter White?
What is the dimensional approach?
This type of approach sees personality traits on a continuum rather than fixed categories.
Personality disorders in this cluster often include dramatic or erratic behavior.
What is Cluster B?
People with this disorder are preoccupied with order, perfection, and control.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD)?
Antisocial Personality Disorder is the same as psychopathy.
Myth. They overlap but are not identical.
Nina from Black Swan has related to this personality disorder, like perfectionism and obsession with control
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder?
What is a hybrid model?
The DSM-5 combines both categorical and dimensional thinking, creating this type of model.
Paranoid, Schizoid, and Schizotypal Personality Disorders fall under this cluster.
What is Cluster A?
This Cluster B disorder shows little remorse and a disregard for others’ rights.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
Dimensional models capture severity better than categorical ones.
Fact
This singer’s 2010 song “Monster” references living with multiple personalities, though it inaccurately portrays Dissociative Identity Disorder.
Who is Lady Gaga?