Personality Disorders
Symptoms include a persistent pattern of avoidance from social relationships along with a limited range of emotion in social relationships
What is Schizoid Personality Disorder?
This positive symptom type includes fixed beliefs that are not amenable to change considering conflicting evidence
What are delusions?
BPD
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This is the diagnosis if someone has at least one delusion that lasts for at least one month, but has NOT experienced hallucinations, disorganized speech, disorganized or catatonic behavior, or negative symptoms
What is Delusional/Delusion Disorder?
This disorder gets its name from being labeled as an in-between neurosis and psychosis
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
Symptoms include over-evaluating their abilities and accomplishments and coming across as boastful and pretentious
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
A word from the Greek meaning poverty of speech or speech content
What is Alogia?
OCPD
What is Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder?
This is the diagnosis if someone has psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia and a concurrent, uninterrupted period of a major mood episode that occurs for the majority or total duration of the disorder
What is Schizoaffective Disorder?
This is latin for guilty mind
What is Mens Rea?
Symptoms often include impulsive behaviors such as self-harm, sexual promiscuity, and suicidal behaviors to prevent abandonment
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This type of cognitive symptoms involves thoughts and speech patterns that may appear to be circumstantial or tangential
What is Disorganized Thinking?
AOT
What is Assisted Outpatient Treatment?
This is the diagnosis if someone has persistent and pervasive symptoms of OCD without the cycle of intense obsessions and compulsions
What is Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder?
This prefix comes from the Greek word for "split"
What is schizo-?
Symptoms include intense difficulty making the smallest of decisions without consulting the other person and rarely challenging decisions made by others
What is Dependent Personality Disorder?
A word from the Greek meaning lack of motivation of goal-directed behavior
What is Avolition?
NGRI
What is Not guilty by reason of insanity?
This could be the diagnosis if someone persistently feels as though they have been deeply and irreversibly hurt by others, and/or is chronically suspicious of others.
Even though there is no evidence to support this, their delusion isn't completely unrealistic/psychotic
What is Paranoid Personality Disorder?
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
Common behaviors include aggression toward people or animals, destruction of property, deceitfulness or theft, or serious violation of rules
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
This positive type of symptom can occur in any of the five senses
What are Hallucinations?
AVPD
What is Avoidant Personality Disorder?
This is the diagnosis if schizophrenia symptoms are present for at least one month but no longer than 6 months
What is Schizophreniform Disorder?
This is the number of Maryland counties that agreed to develop their own assisted outpatient treatment program in 2026
What is zero?