everybody has a personality
and part of having a personality is how
we experience the world our inner
experience of the world our emotional
experience and also how we behave
outwardly
so what happens when we say somebody has
a personality disorder well what we're
saying there is that there's a really
marked and deviation from what we expect
and how we expect them to behave or how
they are experiencing the world and that
really leads to a great deal of distress
and impairment in their functioning
now saying somebody has a personality
disorders actually a controversial thing
and actually this whole category has
been controversial in many regards but
there are lots of details and the
research hasn't fully validated some of
the things I'm saying and further work
needs to be done so please bear that in
mind
one of the things that we know in the
current categorization there are 10
personality disorders and they are
separated out into 3 big clusters as you
can see the 3 circles we have cluster a
cluster B and cluster C now as a general
overview the personality disorders in
cluster a are often defined as being odd
or eccentric
those envy are often labeled as being
dramatic emotional or erratic and
finally in cluster see these personality
disorders are often described as
encompassing anxiety and fearfulness
features one of the things that you may
have noticed is that there's a fair
degree of overlap between these clusters
and it may very well be that even though
there's ten different types of
personality disorder an individual may
very well have one or more types so
let's start with a and in our a category
we have three different personality
disorders paranoid personality disorder
skids on a litter disorder and
schizotypal personality disorder
so let's start off with paranoid
personality disorder a key feature that
really causes impairment here is this
really profound distrust and suspicion
of other people and that would be in
keeping with the name right paranoid
let's look at schizoid someone who's
schizoid it is often very emotionally
detached detached in their relationships
and shows little emotion
and finally we get to schizotypal people
with schizotypal personality disorder
not only tend to avoid close
relationships but they also have this
kind of odd or magical thinking that
would really differentiate them from the
other cluster a personality disorders
now there's a whole heap of extra
criterion descriptions but this is just
an overview so as we can see these
individuals are somewhat odd and
somewhat detached from the people that
are around around them and they may have
unusual beliefs or degrees of distrust
or suspiciousness
let's move on to cluster B this is a
cluster that has for the personality
disorders including antisocial
borderline
histrionic
and narcissistic as I mentioned these
are cluster B often contains dramatic
emotional or erratic trades when we
think about people with antisocial
personality disorder they tend to be
they tend to have little or no regard
for others
they're often involved in the legal
system they may commit crimes and they
will often show no no remorse they're
very inconsiderate of others and that
would be consistent with it with the
name right anti-social and non social
people they're the opposite of social
secondly we have borderline people on
the borderline are always at the brink
of having some kind of an emotional or
relationship issue they have very
unstable relationships that emotions can
actually be pretty unstable too and they
could have a really variable self-image
they can be pretty impulsive and this
can put them in quite a lot of danger
next we have histrionic people with
histrionic Personality Disorder of very
attention seeking they might wear really
bright clothes they might wear things
that are very provocative and they can
display a lot of their emotions
outwardly and finally in this category
we have narcissistic people with
narcissistic personality disorder have
huge egos they might think that they're
the best thing since sliced bread
they have a lot of need for admiration
and praise and they don't take it
lightly if you try and criticize them
one that other ways to describe them as
being very grandiose they think very
very highly of themselves much more
highly than you would think of them and
finally let's move on to our last our
last cluster the anxious and fearful
cluster see and this cluster we have
three different personality disorders we
have avoidant we have dependent and we
have obsessive-compulsive personality
disorder and I'm going to stress this is
a personality disorder here as opposed
to obsessive-compulsive disorder do not
mix them and I'll tell you why in a
minute
okay let's start with avoidant the main
issue with people who are avoidant is
that they're very inhibited they feel
inadequate and generally they try to
avoid putting themselves in a situation
where they can be criticized
secondly we have dependent people who
are dependent as the name says very
dependent they can be very submissive
that could be very clingy they may
really need the help of others all the
time now I want to spend a second on
this obsessive-compulsive personality
disorder because these people are very
focused on their life being ordered
things being perfect and for them to be
in control of everything that's going on
and the reason why this is actually
different from obsessive-compulsive
disorder which is a which is another
condition is it with
obsessive-compulsive personality
disorder the focus is on order and
perfection and then being in control
they don't necessarily have to check the
locks on the windows
what repeatedly wash their hands be very
concerned about germs or bugs or things
like that that some people with actual
obsessive compulsive disorder will be so
these people the real focus here for
obsessive-compulsive personality
disorder is this focus on control
orderliness and perfection and they do
to such an extent that really annoys
other people and can delay projects like
at work and at school because they're
hyper focused on these issues so this is
our overview of the 10 different
personality disorders over these three
different ABC clusters and you can go to
far more detail and there is a large
degree of controversy over these because
not all the research has fully validated
this concept but this is the broad
concept that you need to be aware of