Sentences with phrase «than a personality disorder»

For clinical purposes, bipolar is classified as a mood disorder rather than a personality disorder, but that's a technicality.

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«Considering that «histrionic personality disorder» is still in the DSM - 5, and that women in general are more likely to be diagnosed with anxiety, depression, and some other mental illnesses by clinicians, I'd say he's stoking the flames of a much larger problem about how our society seems to view women — as having excessive emotional needs that need to nearly constantly be managed or controlled rather than taken seriously.

The proclivity to detect and dwell on stressors and threats — a tendency that unites neurotics — explains why the personality trait is not just associated with experiences of fear, moodiness, worry and frustration but also a higher - than - average risk factor for common mental disorders.

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She sounds incredibly genuine, and I have no idea what it's like to be married to someone with a personality disorder (although I totally understand what it's like to be married to someone who is a tad less than honest — and to be a tad less than honest myself).

Former bullies are also more likely to carry weapons than non-bullies and may develop antisocial personality disorder.

Even though there's an abundance of scientific research on psychopathy, perhaps more than with any other personality disorder, specialists still can't agree on the specific origins.

A new King's College London study supports the notion that multiple personality disorder is rooted in traumatic experiences such as neglect or abuse in childhood, rather than being related to suggestibility or proneness to fantasy.

For the purposes of this research, the researchers focused on individuals who exhibit subclinical narcissism, rather than a clinical diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD).

Working in a Stanford - funded lab on the island country, the scientists report that they already have identified more than 20 individual lemurs with unique genetic traits, including obesity, high cholesterol, high blood sugar, cardiac arrhythmias, progressive eye disease and motor and personality disorders.

While research has failed to document a consistent pattern of individual pathology in abusive or neglectful parents, Chaffin and colleagues found that people with Antisocial Personality Disorder, for example, were six times more likely to neglect their children than the average individual.

But the number is likely higher than that because because bipolar 1 disorder (like many other mood and personality disorders) is often misdiagnosed or overlooked.

And better than the multiple personality disorder of 2012.

In fact, depending on the kind of law you practice, the percentage of your potential client base with a diagnosable personality disorder is probably substantially higher than the average.

For another, if a tenth (or more) of your potential client base has a personality disorder, chances are good you will end up dealing with a disordered client sooner rather than later, anyway.

the issues involved are often intangible and insusceptible to quantification — rather than dealing with the cost of a collapsed deal or the speed and state of repair of a car involved in an accident, family law disputes often concern parenting capacity, employability, personality disorders and wellbeing;

Empirical data show that persons with personality disorders adjudged to have diminished responsibility remain in psychiatric confinement longer than if they had been regarded as fully responsible, and had been sentenced only to imprisonment.

I have more than twenty five years experience in a full range of treatment programs providing services to clients, and their families; addressing the symptoms of mental illness, co-occurring substance abuse problems, personality disorders, legal issues and community adjustment problems.

(This manual has updated the estimates of personality disorders as approximately 15 % of the United States population — more than in previous versions.)

Interestingly, there is empirical evidence that informant reports of personality have significantly greater internal consistency than self - reports, particularly in the assessment of personality disorder traits, so the use of significant - other assessment in the present study could be a strength rather than a complete liability (e.g., Balsis, Cooper, & Oltmanns, 2015).

Does increased understanding of the biological underpinnings of personality, and the responsiveness of Axis I disorder to psychotherapy, mean that distinctions between Axis I and II conditions are based primarily on convenience rather than aetiological or therapeutic grounds?

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is 1 of only 2 DSM - IV diagnoses for which suicidal behavior is a criterion.1 Borderline personality disorder is a severe and persistent mental disorder experience of severe emotional distress and behavioral dyscontrol.1 - 3 Among patients with BPD, 69 % to 80 % engage in suicidal behavior,4 - 9 with a suicide rate of up to 9 %.10 Forty percent of the highest users of inpatient psychiatric services receive a diagnosis of BPD.11, 12 Patients with BPD use more services than those with major depression13 and other personality disorders.14 Among patients with BPD seen for treatment, 72 % have had at least 1 psychiatric hospitalization and 97 % have received outpatient treatment from a mean of 6.1 previous therapists.15, 16 Despite this high - use pattern, patients with BPD have high rates of treatment failure.17, 18

Repeated self - wounding is one criterion of borderline personality disorder but we prefer to consider it an «addictive» behaviour rather than an expression of a wider disorder.

There was a greater association between personality and drug use disorders than between personality and alcohol use disorders.

Barkley et al found increased rates of comorbid substance abuse disorder, anxiety disorder, mood disorder, personality disorders, and disruptive behavior disorders among adults with ADHD that had persisted from childhood into adulthood.23 Adults whose childhood ADHD did not persist also had increased rates of psychiatric comorbidity, although lower than those with persistent ADHD (47.3 % vs 84.3 %).23 Other smaller studies also report elevated rates of psychiatric comorbidity (65 — 89 %) among adults with ADHD.15 — 22 However, these studies used nonrepresentative samples of children referred to specialty treatment programs for ADHD.

Personality disorders and depression often go hand in hand: It is estimated that more than half of the patients with a personality disorder also suffer from Personality disorders and depression often go hand in hand: It is estimated that more than half of the patients with a personality disorder also suffer from personality disorder also suffer from depression.

However, in most clinical settings, it is often more common at any given point in time to encounter patients with a range of personality disorders than to have a caseload or waiting list consisting of any one specific personality disorder.

These children are more likely to develop adult antisocial personality disorder than individuals with the adolescent - onset type.

In almost all instances where mental health outcomes were explored, children of parents with BPD fared worse than control children, even when these control children had parents with significant mental health difficulties, for example, Weiss et al33 found that children of mothers with BPD (mean age around 11 years) had lower Child Global Assessment Schedule (CGAS) scores than children of mothers with other personality disorders, and that the mean of these scores was in the «non-functional» range.

Using the Family Environment Scale, 28 Feldman et al17 showed that mothers with BPD rated their family as lower in cohesion and organisation, and higher on conflict than the control group, which comprised mothers with other types of personality disorder.

Exclusion criteria were unconsciousness for more than 15 minutes after the accident or having no memory of the accident, history of psychosis, current alcohol or other substance dependence, borderline personality disorder, severe depression needing immediate treatment in its own right (suicide risk), and treatment or assessments that could not be conducted without the aid of an interpreter.

Children (mean age 11 years) of mothers with BPD rated their mothers as less encouraging of independence than children whose mothers had other personality disorders.17 Similarly, mothers with BPD were reported to be more overprotective by their children aged 11 — 18 years, in comparison with healthy controls and controls with depressive illness and other personality disorders.19 It should be noted, however, that children of mothers with BPD might be living in environments that are more risky than average children, and that this higher reported overprotection might be advantageous in these conditions.

Weiss et al33 reported that children (with a mean age of 11) whose mother had BPD, were more likely to have a behavioural disorder or attention deficit disorder than the children in the control group, whose parents had a range of other personality disorders (but not BPD).

These difficulties are probably more severe than for families where a parent has MDD or another personality disorder.

Schema therapy is an integrated model of psychotherapy that has been shown in multiple studies to be significantly more effective than traditional psychotherapeutic treatments for a broad range of personality disorders, contributing to real recovery for our patients and clients, not just symptom reduction.

If you are not in fear for your safety, if you don't have the need for a judge tell everyone you are right, and if your spouse does not have a severe psychological or personality disorder, then your family should work together outside of court to constructively restructure via the collaborative process rather than to battle it out in court.

Disorders such as depression, social anxiety, eating disorders, PTSD, and OCD are often highly comorbid with each other and with personality disorders, a fact which helps explain why even state - of - the - art methods for their treatment often have less - than - desirable effects.

If no treatments are shown to be effective for treating RAD, then maybe RAD could better be characterized as a personality disorder of children rather than an Axis I DSM disorder.

Results: At baseline, 70 percent of the participants met criteria for more than one of the following disorders: conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorders, bulimia, borderline personality disorder, and attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder.

Borderline Personality Disorder is a spectrum disorder, meaning there is a broad spectrum of severity and patients with less severe manifestations have an easier path to recovery; and all things being equal, younger individuals generally tend to be more responsive to therapy thaDisorder is a spectrum disorder, meaning there is a broad spectrum of severity and patients with less severe manifestations have an easier path to recovery; and all things being equal, younger individuals generally tend to be more responsive to therapy thadisorder, meaning there is a broad spectrum of severity and patients with less severe manifestations have an easier path to recovery; and all things being equal, younger individuals generally tend to be more responsive to therapy than older.

Antisocial personality disorder is much more common in males than in females.

Adopted - away children resemble their biological parents more than their adoptive parents, but the adoptive family environment influences the risk of developing a personality disorder and related psychopathology.

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The diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder is not given to individuals younger than 18 years and is given only if there is a history of some symptoms of conduct disorder before age 15 years.

For individuals older than 18 years, a diagnosis of conduct disorder is given only if the criteria for antisocial personality disorder are not met.

Significantly more schema therapy patients fully recovered (46 percent versus 26 percent) or showed reliable clinical improvement (66 percent versus 33 percent) on the Borderline Personality Disorder Severity Index than patients receiving transference - focused therapy.

So when talking about personality disorders it is helpful to consider blends of traits rather than distinct categories.

The highest prevalence of antisocial personality disorder (greater than 70 %) is among most severe samples of males with alcohol use disorder and from substance abuse clinics, prisons, or other forensic settings.

It is increasingly recognized that personality disorders involve blends of distorted personality traits (Widiger & Trull, 2007; American Psychiatric Association, DSM - 5 Chapter 3, 2013) rather than fixed categories.

For people with personality disorders the degree of their distortion is more extreme and occurs with greater frequency than for those people without a personality disorder.