Personality Disorder

Personality Disorder

Do you have a personality disorders? Let's find out. "A personality disorders is whenever a person has a rigid and an unhealthy pattern when thinking and behaving no matter what the situation is" ( Mayo Clinic, 1998-2011). "This disorder usually appears in adolescence and continues through much of your adult life" (Coon, 2010, p. 465). Personality disorders include paranoid which is when you always think that people want to harm you; we have narcissist is whenever a person is self-centric, they think they are superior to others and don't care about other people's feelings. We also have dependent which is when a person shows and expresses a clinging behavior, they have the excessive need to be taken care of by someone else. Since most of us don't know if we have a personality disorder it is important to inform ourselves about what are they, the symptoms, what causes these disorders and how should they are treated.

First we have the paranoid disorder which is whenever a person is overly suspicious or just a person that believes everyone around them can harm them or want to harm them. Some of the symptoms about this disorder are as follow; "the person with the disorder suspects without sufficient basis or prove of it, they persistently bear grudges, they unforgiving of insults, perceives attacks on their character or reputation that are not apparent to others" (John M. Grohol, 2010). These are just some symptoms which pretty much describe how a person acts whenever they have this disorder. The causes of this disorder are either "inherited tendencies" (Mayo Clinic, 1998-2011), or your genes meaning it's already in your blood. The other cause can be because of the "environment that you are in or your life situations" (Mayo Clinic, 1998-2011), what I mean by this is that depending on what type of people you surround yourself with and their attitude like can cause this as well as any past situations that you have had, like if you had abusive parents it will reflect why you always overly suspicious because you are afraid of someone harming you and not being able to defend yourself.

Secondly, the narcissist disorder, which means whenever a person is ego centric they don't care about nobody but themselves and are not scare of hurting anyone's feelings. This person thinks that they are better than others, however these persons do have low self-esteem and this is the reason why they like making other people feel less worth it than themselves. A few of the symptoms that this disorder shows is whenever the person "fantasizes about power, success and attractiveness, they tend to exaggerate their achievements or any talents they might have, they believe that others are jealous of them, they set unrealistic goals, they have fragile self-esteem, these are just a few of the many symptoms that are shown" (Mayo Clinic, 1998-2011). The cause for the narcissist disorder may be because of "a dysfunctional childhood, such as parents over pampering their children, parents having high expectations, and abuse" (Mayo Clinic, 1998-2011) within other different causes. The narcissist disorder affects a lot of people in this world and most of them don't even know that they have it because they consider it to be normal and just part of how they are.

Lastly, the dependent disorder, this is just a person that claims be taken care of by another person,