When personality traits become abnormal, that is become inflexible and maladaptive and cause significant social or occupational impairment or subject distress causes Personality Disorders. It is one in which there is the deeply ingrained maladaptive pattern of behavior recognized by the time of adolescence or earlier and continuing through most of adult life.

Characteristics of personality disorder

It is not a mental illness (means not episodic in nature like other mental illnesses)

Types of personality disorder

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

The characteristic of this disorder is persistent and uncontrollable thoughts and irrational beliefs that cause an individual to perform compulsive rituals that interfere with his/her daily life. Patients have recurrent, persistent ideas, thoughts or images (obsessions) or repetitive, stereotyped, seemingly purposeless behavior (compulsions)

Obsessive- Repeated thought, ideas

Compulsive- Repeated acts, behavior

Characteristics of OCPD

Excessive concern with order, rules, schedules, lists

Feeling of excessive doubt

Perfectionism that interferes with task completion

Inability to throughout even broken objects, worthless objects

Discomfort with emotion and personal relationships they cannot control

Rigidity and stubbornness

Paranoid personality disorder

This disorder is marked by a distrust of other people and a constant unwarranted suspicion that others have sinister motives. Persons with paranoid personality disorder search for hidden meaning and hostile intentions in everything other say or do.

Schizoid Personality disorder

It is characterized by detachment and social withdrawn. People with this disorder are commonly described as loners, with solitary interests and no close friends; typically they maintain a social distance even from family members and seem unconcerned about other’s praise or criticism.

Sign and symptoms

Emotional coldness, introspective, reserve, little interest in having sexual experiences with others, lack of close relationship, want to be alone etc.

Histrionic personality disorder

It is characterized by pervasive and excessive self-dramatization, excessively emotional and attention seeking