Cluster C: Anxious and Fearful (Nursing)

00:01 Now let's look at cluster C, Anxious and Fearful.

00:05 So the cluster C group includes avoidant, dependent, obsessive-compulsive.

00:14 So when we're thinking about these 3, what do they all have in common? If you think about obsessive-compulsive, and we know that people have obsessive-compulsive disorder, this is a personality disorder.

00:31 What is the difference between a psychiatric diagnoses and the diagnoses of a personality disorder? The personality disorder is something that the person has developed over a lifetime.

00:48 And it is their coping mechanism to try and allow them to help live in the world, even though oftentimes what it does is exactly the opposite.

00:59 Anxious and fearful, every one of the different cluster sees that we're going to go over really have a basis of I am not safe.