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Dependent Personality Disorder

Dependent Personality Disorder

Psychiatry

Dependent Personality Disorder

Diagnostic Criteria

A pervasive and excessive need to be taken care of that leads to submissive and clinging behavior and fears of separation, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:

  1. Has difficulty making everyday decisions without an excessive amount of advice and reassurance from others.
  2. Needs others to assume responsibility for most major areas of his or her life.
  3. Has difficulty expressing disagreement with others because of fear of loss of support or approval. (Note: Do not include realistic fears of retribution.)
  4. Has difficulty initiating projects or doing things on his or her own (because of a lack of self-confidence in judgment or abilities rather than a lack of motivation or energy).
  5. Goes to excessive lengths to obtain nurturance and support from others, to the point of volunteering to do things that are unpleasant.
  6. Feels uncomfortable or helpless when alone because of exaggerated fears of being unable to care for him or her.
  7. Urgently seeks another relationship as a source of care and support when a close relationship ends.
  8. Is unrealistically preoccupied with fears of being left to take care of him or her.

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Avoidant Personality Disorder

Avoidant Personality Disorder

Psychiatry

Avoidant Personality Disorder

Diagnostic Criteria

A pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by four (or more) of the following:

  1. Avoids occupational activities that involve significant interpersonal contact because of fears of criticism, disapproval, or rejection.
  2. Is unwilling to get involved with people unless certain of being liked.
  3. Shows restraint within intimate relationships because of the fear of being shamed or ridiculed.
  4. Is preoccupied with being criticized or rejected in social situations.
  5. Is inhibited in new interpersonal situations because of feelings of inadequacy.
  6. Views self as socially inept, personally unappealing, or inferior to others.

Is unusually reluctant to take personal risks or to engage in any new activities because they may prove embarrassing

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Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Psychiatry

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Diagnostic Criteria

A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:

  1. Has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements).
  2. Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love.
  3. Believes that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions).
  4. Requires excessive admiration.
  5. Has a sense of entitlement ( I. e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations).
  6. Is interpersonally exploitative (i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends).
  7. Lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others.
  8. Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her.
  9. Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes.

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Histrionic Personality Disorder

Histrionic Personality Disorder

Psychiatry

Histrionic Personality Disorder

Diagnostic Criteria

A pervasive  pattern  of  excessive  emotionality  and  attention  seeking,  beginning  by  early  adulthood  and  present  in  a  variety  of  contexts,  as  indicated  by  five (or  more) of  the  following:

  1. Is uncomfortable  in  situations  in  which  he  or  she  is  not  the  center  of  attention.
  2. Interaction  with  others  is  often  characterized  by  inappropriate  sexually  seductive  or  provocative  behavior.
  3. Displays rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotions.
  4. Consistently   uses physical appearance to draw attention to self.
  5. Has   a   style  of  speech  that  is  excessively  impressionistic  and  lacking  in  detail.
  6. Shows self-dramatization, theatricality, and exaggerated expression of emotion.
  7. Is suggestible (e.g., easily influenced by others or circumstances).
  8. Considers  relationships  to  be more  intimate  than  they  actually  are.

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Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder

Psychiatry

Borderline Personality Disorder

Diagnostic Criteria

A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:

  1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. (Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.)
  2. A Pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation.
  3. Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self.
  4. Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating). (Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.)
  5. Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior.
  6. Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphasia, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days).
  7. Chronic feelings of emptiness.
  8. Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights).
  9. Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms.

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Antisocial Personality Disorder

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Psychiatry

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Diagnostic Criteria

A) A pervasive  pattern  of  disregard  for  and  violation  of  the  rights  of  others,  occurring  since  age  15 years,  as  indicated  by  three (or  more) of  the  following:

  1. Failure  to  conform  to  social  norms  with  respect  to  lawful  behaviors,  as   indicated  by  repeatedly  performing  acts  that  are  grounds  for  arrest.
  2. Deceitfulness,  as  indicated  by  repeated  lying,  use  of  aliases,  or  conning  others  for  personal  profit  or  pleasure.
  3. Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead.
  4. Irritability  and  aggressiveness,  as  indicated  by  repeated  physical  fights  or  assaults.
  5. Reckless disregard for safety of self or others.
  6. Consistent  irresponsibility,  as  indicated  by  repeated  failure  to  sustain  consistent  work  behavior  or  honor  financial  obligations.
  7. Lack  of  remorse,  as  indicated  by  being  indifferent  to or  rationalizing  having  hurt,   mistreated,  or  stolen  from  another.

B) The individual is at least age 18 years.

C) There  is  evidence  of  conduct  disorder  with  onset  before  age 15  years.

D) The  occurrence of  antisocial  behavior  is  not  exclusively  during  the  course  of  schizophrenia  or  bipolar  disorder.

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