What is personality disorder?


Question:
What are the symptoms or how can you tell if someone has it? And if they do, what should you do?

Answers:
http://www.focusas.com/personalitydisord...

A personality disorder is identified

by a pervasive pattern of experience and behavior that is abnormal with respect to any two of the following:

thinking, mood, personal relations,

and the control of impulses.


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There are several different types of personality disorders. You can do a web search and find out very easily the information your looking for. Personality disorders are a cluster of behaviors ingrained into a individual. Only a professional can diagnose personality disorders. Usually it is chronic and the person can suffer miserably.
Personality disorder, group of psychiatric conditions marked by chronic behavior patterns that cause serious problems with relationships and work. Check out this site, there are others on the web.


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A personality disorder is something such as a narcissistic personality that interferes with every day life.

Personality disorders are axis II on the multiaxial classification chart and are grouped with mental retardation.

Personality disorders are different from clinical mental health disorders such as schizophrenia though due to the fact that schizophrenia is caused by chemical imbalances where as personality disorders are created solely by the person often as a result of environmental factors.

Symptoms of a personality disorder can usually be recognized fairly easily especially if they interfere with normal life and if you think someone has a personality disorder you should refer them to a counselor or psychologist.

It's important to know that personality disorders and clinical mental health disorders are two different things and if it is a mental health disorder then they may need medication.
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