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People with personality disorders commonly experience conflict and instability in many aspects of their lives, and most believe others are responsible for their problems.
Signs and symptoms of cluster A (odd, eccentric) personality disorders may include:
Paranoid personality disorder
- Belief that others are lying, cheating, exploiting or trying to harm you
- Perception of hidden, malicious meaning in benign comments
- Inability to work collaboratively with others
- Emotional detachment
- Hostility toward others
Schizoid personality disorder
- Fantasizing
- Extreme introversion
- Emotional distance, even from family members
- Fixation on your own thoughts and feelings
- Emotional detachment
Schizotypal personality disorder
- Indifference to and withdrawal from others
- "Magical thinking" — the idea that you can influence people and events with your thoughts
- Odd, elaborate style of dressing, speaking and interacting with others
- Belief that messages are hidden for you in public speeches and displays
- Suspicious or paranoid ideas
Signs and symptoms of cluster B (dramatic, emotional) personality disorders may include:
Histrionic personality disorder
- Excessive sensitivity to others' approval
- Attention-grabbing, often sexually provocative clothing and behavior
- Excessive concern with your physical appearance
- False sense of intimacy with others
- Constant, sudden emotional shifts
Narcissistic personality disorder
- Inflated sense of — and preoccupation with — your importance, achievements and talents
- Constant attention-grabbing and admiration-seeking behavior
- Inability to empathize with others
- Excessive anger or shame in response to criticism
- Manipulation of others to further your own desires
Antisocial (formerly, sociopathic) personality disorder
- Chronic irresponsibility and unreliability /FONT>
- Lack of regard for the law and for others' rights
- Persistent lying and stealing
- Aggressive, often violent behavior
- Lack of remorse for hurting others
- Lack of concern for the safety of yourself and others
Borderline personality disorder
- Difficulty controlling emotions or impulses
- Frequent, dramatic changes in mood, opinions and plans
- Stormy relationships involving frequent, intense anger and possibly physical fights
- Fear of being alone despite a tendency to push people away
- Feeling of emptiness inside
- Suicide attempts or self-mutilation
Signs and symptoms of cluster C (anxious, fearful) personality disorders may include:
Avoidant personality disorder
- Hypersensitivity to criticism or rejection
- Self-imposed social isolation
- Extreme shyness in social situations, though you strongly desire close relationships
Dependent personality disorder
- Excessive dependence on others to meet your physical and emotional needs
- Tolerance of poor, even abusive treatment in order to stay in relationships
- Unwillingness to independently voice opinions, make decisions or initiate activities
- Intense fear of being alone
- Urgent need to start a new relationship when one has ended
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
- Excessive concern with order, rules, schedules and lists
- Perfectionism, often so pronounced that you can't complete tasks because your standards are impossible to meet
- Inability to throw out even broken, worthless objects
- Inability to share responsibility with others
- Inflexibility about the "right" ethics, ideas and methods
- Compulsive devotion to work at the expense of recreation and relationships
- Financial stinginess
- Discomfort with emotions and aspects of personal relationships that you can't control
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is not the same as obsessive-compulsive disorder, an anxiety disorder that shares some symptoms but is more extreme and disabling.
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