Cluster B Personality disorders
What is a personality disorder?A personality disorder is a mental health condition where people have a lifelong pattern of seeing themselves and reacting to others in ways that cause problems.
What Cluster B personality Disorders?Cluster B personality disorders are personality disorders characterized by unstable, dramatic, unpredictable, or intensely emotional responses to thing around them.
Cluster B Disorder list
clicking on a disorder will bring you to a page on the disorder based on the dsm-v. continuing on a disorder will bring you to a self defined page coming from people who have the disorder.
ASPD / Antisocial Personality Disorder
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. There is evidence of conduct disorder with onset before age 15 years.
C. The occurrence of antisocial behavior is not exclusively during the course of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
Associated Features
BPD / Borderline Personality Disorder
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. 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). 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 dysphoria, 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.Text
NPD / Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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 them.
9. Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes.
HPD / Histrionic Personality Disorder
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 they are 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 (i.e., easily influenced by others or circumstances).
8. Considers relationships to be more intimate than they actually are.
ASPD from pwASPD
ASPD or antisocial personality disorder is a personality disorder characterized by impulsivity, lack of or low empathy, lack of or low guilt and remorse, feeling the need to have control, and or feeling as if you need to be/are above others. Often people with ASPD often tend to lack care about poor situations, or be able to ignore large issues. A dislike or lack of respect for authorities is also common among those with ASPD. People with ASPD may struggle with the boundaries of their own or others.
BPD from pwBPD
BPD or borderline personality disorder is a personality disorder characterized by an intense fear of abandonment, unstable and often intense relationships, an unstable or poor self image, periods of intense paranoia, impulsive or dangerous behavior, unstable emotions including intense mood swings and angry outbursts, thoughts of self harm and or suicide, and feeling empty.
NPD from pwNPD
NPD or narcissistic personality disorder is a personality disorder characterized by an exaggerated sense of self-importance, a sense of entitlement and requirement for constant, excessive admiration, expectations to be recognized as above others, fantasies about success, power, brilliance, or beauty, a belief of superiority and association with only equally “special” people, looking down on people perceived as inferior, expectations unquestioning compliance with expectations, taking advantage of others to get what is wanted, an inability to recognize the needs and feelings of others, envious of others and believes that others are envious of them, trouble handling anything perceived as criticism.
HPD from pwHPD
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