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Let's take a look at
personality disorders.
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What are personality disorders?
Personality disorders are
maladaptive patterns of behavior
relating to others in
three specific areas of functioning.
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The thoughts and emotions,
interpersonal participation,
and impulse management.
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So, now when we think about
a personality disorder,
we think about the fact that
these symptoms and
these behaviors that we're seeing,
they're not caused by another
psychiatric disorder.
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Also, we begin to see this on
early during their adolescence
or maybe during a
person's early adulthood.
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So what is the epidemiology?
Where do these come from?
And what kind of comorbidities?
What other kinds of
diseases might we see?
So, if we think about
the general population,
13% of the general population
have a personality disorder.
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And we frequently will see
the personality disorder
co-occurring with mood disorders,
with anxiety, with eating disorders,
and also with substance abuse.
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There are some genetic
and biological factors
neurobiological factors
that we might want to consider
when we're thinking about
personality disorders,
and that is
the psychological factors,
environmental factors,
and also stress.
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When you think about
personality disorders,
I really want you to think
also about coping mechanisms.
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Considering the fact
that we see these
in early adulthood and adolescence.
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It's often a maladaptive pattern
of coping,
that a child has developed
in order to be able to withstand
an environment that is stressful,
that may be abusive.
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And it is a way for the person
to be able to continue living
in that environment,
where as a child, they really
are powerless to change it.
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So, personality disorders are put
into three different clusters.
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The A cluster, usually is with
odd and eccentric behaviors.
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Your B cluster, is dramatic
and emotional behaviors.
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And your C,
are anxious and fearful behaviors.
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You might think to yourself,
"Well, if this is happening,
and becoming cemented
during an early childhood
experience,
why does a person continue to
use it throughout their life?
Why does it become
their go to response?
I want you to think about
how the brain works,
about the patterns that
are developed in the brain,
about those neurotransmitters
that help us to order
the world around us.
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And if we find that,
during a moment
where we're fearful for our life,
or for someone that we love,
and being odd or eccentric,
or perhaps a little
dramatic or emotional,
might interrupt the pattern of
behavior that might be so fearful,
that gets imprinted in our minds
and that becomes part
of our personality.
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Another piece with
personality disorders,
is to remember the difference
between state and trait.
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And when I think about state,
you can move from state to state
if you want to change
your environment.
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A state is something that happens
in that particular environment.
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Whereas a trait is something that
is part of your own personality.
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You take it with you
wherever you are going.