Personality disorders
A
Antisocial Personality Disorder - Not caring about other peoples feelings and/or rights.
Avoidant Personality Disorder - Extreme worrying over what people think about them and feelings of inadequacy.
B
Borderline Personality Disorder - Instability in relationships, self image and emotions.
Brief Psychotic Disorder - short term schizophrenia. (problems speaking, delusions, hallucinations and out of ordinary behaviour)
D
Dependent Personality Disorder - A strong need to be taken care of and fear of being abandoned or separated from loved ones.
H
Histrionic Personality Disorder - Extreme attention seeking and feels uncomfortable when not the focus of a crowd.
I
Intermittent Explosive Disorder - random outbursts of aggression towards property or people. The person usually feels relieved after carrying out the aggressive act.
M
Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) - Unable to recall personal details, two (or more) separate identities/personalities seem to be present.
N
Narcissistic Personality Disorder - Not considerate of others feelings, feels a need to be admired and thinks a lot of themselves.
O
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - An obsession with orderliness, perfection and control that can impact daily life.
P
Paranoid Personality Disorder - Distrusts and is wary of many people, always suspicious. This leads to problems forming relationships.
Psychotic Disorder (not otherwise specified) - consists of delusions, hallucinations, poor speech and extreme behaviour. A person with this disorder may have many symptoms that contradict each other or other symptoms to this, in these cases the person does not criteria for any specific psychotic disorder.
S
Seasonal Affective Disorder - feeling sad and depressed only in the winter months when it is cold, sleep and eating habits can be affected.
Schizophrenia (Psychosis) - partaking in strange behaviours, experiencing hallucinations and delusions.
A person who may be about to experience an episode may:
- be withdrawn and antisocial
- be hostile, suspicious, paranoid and emotionless
- make odd statements and beliefs
- have poor sleeping habits
- have bad hygiene and take less pride in their appearance
Schizoaffective Disorder - having a major/manic or mixed episode. As well as two of the following:
- delusions
- hallucinations
- poor speech
- worse than usual behaviour
- feeling and acting bad (e.g poor sleep, no motivation or no energy)
Schizophreniform Disorder - Schizophrenia that lasts between 1 and 6 months.
Schizoid Personality Disorder - Has difficulty or refuses to display emotion and rejects intimacy.
Schizotypal Personality Disorder - Problems forming and keeping relationships and feels uncomfortable in them.
Shared Psychotic Disorder - a person has a close relationship with another that has a psychotic disorder and delusions can be passed from one to another.
Antisocial Personality Disorder - Not caring about other peoples feelings and/or rights.
Avoidant Personality Disorder - Extreme worrying over what people think about them and feelings of inadequacy.
B
Borderline Personality Disorder - Instability in relationships, self image and emotions.
Brief Psychotic Disorder - short term schizophrenia. (problems speaking, delusions, hallucinations and out of ordinary behaviour)
D
Dependent Personality Disorder - A strong need to be taken care of and fear of being abandoned or separated from loved ones.
H
Histrionic Personality Disorder - Extreme attention seeking and feels uncomfortable when not the focus of a crowd.
I
Intermittent Explosive Disorder - random outbursts of aggression towards property or people. The person usually feels relieved after carrying out the aggressive act.
M
Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) - Unable to recall personal details, two (or more) separate identities/personalities seem to be present.
N
Narcissistic Personality Disorder - Not considerate of others feelings, feels a need to be admired and thinks a lot of themselves.
O
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - An obsession with orderliness, perfection and control that can impact daily life.
P
Paranoid Personality Disorder - Distrusts and is wary of many people, always suspicious. This leads to problems forming relationships.
Psychotic Disorder (not otherwise specified) - consists of delusions, hallucinations, poor speech and extreme behaviour. A person with this disorder may have many symptoms that contradict each other or other symptoms to this, in these cases the person does not criteria for any specific psychotic disorder.
S
Seasonal Affective Disorder - feeling sad and depressed only in the winter months when it is cold, sleep and eating habits can be affected.
Schizophrenia (Psychosis) - partaking in strange behaviours, experiencing hallucinations and delusions.
A person who may be about to experience an episode may:
- be withdrawn and antisocial
- be hostile, suspicious, paranoid and emotionless
- make odd statements and beliefs
- have poor sleeping habits
- have bad hygiene and take less pride in their appearance
Schizoaffective Disorder - having a major/manic or mixed episode. As well as two of the following:
- delusions
- hallucinations
- poor speech
- worse than usual behaviour
- feeling and acting bad (e.g poor sleep, no motivation or no energy)
Schizophreniform Disorder - Schizophrenia that lasts between 1 and 6 months.
Schizoid Personality Disorder - Has difficulty or refuses to display emotion and rejects intimacy.
Schizotypal Personality Disorder - Problems forming and keeping relationships and feels uncomfortable in them.
Shared Psychotic Disorder - a person has a close relationship with another that has a psychotic disorder and delusions can be passed from one to another.