No one can be immune from mental disturbances of his perception of the surrounding world, etc. Violations in the emotional, behavioral or intellectual realm have one common name: "personality disorder".
Basic definition
A personality disorder is a type of mental disorder in psychiatry and clinical psychology.
It is characterized by persistent impairments, manifested in the actions, feelings and thoughts of the patient. Personality disorder is an inflexible method of perception of surrounding people and reactions to events, which cause the person's inability to adapt socially.
Types of personality disorders
According to the classification of the international statistical manual on mental illness, personality disorders are divided into three main groups:
- Group A. This group includes: paranoid, schizotypic and schizoid disorder.
- Group B. This is a borderline, hysterical or theatrical, antisocial, narcissistic disorder.
- Group C. An obsessive-compulsive, avoiding and dependent personality disorder.
These types of personality disorders differ in the way they express themselves and the causes of their occurrence.
Personality disorder - symptoms
People suffering from a mental disorder of personality, often, are inadequate to the problems that have arisen. This may result in the fact that it is difficult for them to build harmonious relations with family members, etc. Usually, mental disorders of the personality find their manifestation in adolescence or in early adulthood. Such disorders are classified by severity. Basically they are found in a light form.
Signs of personality disorder are manifested in relation to the patient to others, his thoughts. Such people do not notice inadequacy in their behavior and in their thoughts, and for this reason they rarely can on their own initiative turn to a specialist for help. Most patients are unhappy with their standard of living, they suffer from substance abuse, mood disorder, eating behavior and anxiety.
Consequences of the disease
Disorder of personality and behavior have the following consequences:
- High risk of developing alcohol and other dependence, inadequate sexual behavior, suicidal behavior.
- Emotional, irresponsible, offensive type of upbringing of children, which will lead to the development of mental disorders in the children of the patient.
- Mental failures due to stress.
- Development of other mental disorders (psychosis, anxiety, etc.).
- The patient refuses to take responsibility for his own behavior. Mistrust is developing.
Personality disorder are the main reasons.
- Child abuse and neglect of feelings and interests as early as the childhood of the patient.
- Sexual abuse.
- Development of personality in conditions of alcoholism, indifference.
The diagnosis is that a person's personality disorder is put after the behavior and perception of the person corresponds to the criteria of the DSM (Manual on Mental Disorders).
Treatment of personality disorder
In order to reduce anxiety, depression, etc., the symptoms of personality disorders use medication. Depending on the type of mental disorders, appropriate drugs are prescribed.
To correct inadequacy in the behavior of a person, the course of his thoughts, patients are prescribed psychotherapy sessions. Changes in the behavior of the patient are usually observed after a year, and success in interpersonal relationships - after many years.
It is worth noting that personality disorder should be treated with the first symptoms, since this disease destroys not only the life of the patient, but also his immediate environment.