Chapter 13: The Type Of Personality Disorders

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Chapter 13 was really eye opening on personality disorders as a whole. I didn’t realize that there are so many different signs and symptoms of each. A personality disorder is when someone is enduring, rigid pattern of inner experience and outward behavior that impairs their sense of self, emotional experiences, goals, capacity for empathy, and/or capacity for intimacy (Comer, 2014, pg. 399). The type of personality disorders that were the most interesting to me were the three “odd” personality disorders. Theses “odd” disorders include: paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal.
People who live with paranoid personality disorder have a constant distrust for others as well as always being suspicious of other people’s motives. Schizoid sufferers avoid