Cluster A
Cluster B
Cluster C
Symptoms & Traits
Diagnosis & Treatment
100

This disorder involves distrust and suspicion of others.

Paranoid Personality Disorder

100

This disorder involves lack of empathy and disregard for others’ rights.

Antisocial Personality Disorder

100

This disorder involves social inhibition due to feelings of inadequacy.

Avoidant Personality Disorder

100

A long-term pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates from expectations.

A personality disorder

100

Personality disorders are categorized in this professional diagnostic manual.

DSM-5

200

People with this disorder may appear eccentric and have magical thinking.

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

200

Intense, unstable emotions and fear of abandonment characterize this disorder.

Borderline Personality Disorder

200

People with this disorder have an excessive need to be taken care of and fear separation.

Dependent Personality Disorder

200

Splitting the tendency to see others as all good or all bad is most associated with this disorder.

Borderline Personality Disorder

200

This type of therapy is especially effective for Borderline Personality Disorder.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

300

People with this disorder prefer social isolation and show limited emotional expression.

Schizoid Personality Disorder

300

This disorder features excessive emotionality and attention-seeking behaviors.

Histrionic Personality Disorder

300

Preoccupation with order, perfection, and control defines this disorder.

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD)

300

This term refers to difficulty forming close, healthy emotional bonds.

Attachment disturbance

300

True or False: Personality disorders are typically diagnosed in adulthood.

True

400

Cluster A disorders share this general type of behavior.

odd or eccentric behavior

400

Grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy fit this disorder.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

400

Avoidant Personality Disorder overlaps with symptoms of this anxiety disorder.

Social Anxiety Disorder

400

A pattern of manipulating others for personal gain is a key trait of this disorder.

Antisocial Personality Disorder

400

Medications don’t treat personality disorders directly but can help with these kinds of symptoms.

Mood or anxiety symptoms

500

Schizotypal Personality Disorder is related genetically to this psychotic disorder.

schizophrenia

500

Cluster B disorders are often linked to issues with these two aspects of self.

Emotional regulation and impulse control

500

Cluster C disorders share this common emotional theme.

Anxiety or fearfulness

500

People with Narcissistic Personality Disorder often rely on this kind of external validation.

Admiration or external approval

500

Chronic, stable patterns that begin by early adulthood are known as this.

Enduring personality patterns

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