Cluster C personality disorders are characterized by anxious, fearful thinking or behavior. They include avoidant personality disorder, dependent personality disorder and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.

A person with borderline personality disorder may go to great lengths to avoid being abandoned, have repeated suicide attempts, display inappropriate intense anger or have ongoing feelings of emptiness.

Individuals with borderline personality disorder display instability in self-image and affects and difficulty in impulse control.

Cluster A is called the odd, eccentric cluster. It includes Paranoid Personality Disorder, Schizoid Personality Disorder, and Schizotypal Personality Disorders. The common features of the personality disorders in this cluster are social awkwardness and social withdrawal.

Conclusions: Cluster B personality disorders are prevalent comorbid conditions identifiable in a substantial number of individuals with bipolar disorder, making an independent contribution to increased lifetime suicide risk.

Finally, according to findings of the most contemporary study (NESARC), the most common personality disorder in the United States is presently obsessive-compulsive personality (7.9%), followed by narcissistic (6.2%) and borderline (5.9%) personality disorders.

Research suggests that genetics, abuse and other factors contribute to the development of obsessive-compulsive, narcissistic or other personality disorders. In the past, some believed that people with personality disorders were just lazy or even evil.

Childhood trauma such as sexual, emotional, or physical abuse also may lead to the onset of borderline personality disorder. Unstable relationships are a main symptom of BPD , and children with traumatic backgrounds or unhealthy family relationships may be more prone to developing BPD later in life.

Lifestyle and home remedies

1. Be an active participant in your care. This can help your efforts to manage your personality disorder.
2. Take your medications as directed. Even if you’re feeling well, don’t skip your medications.
3. Learn about your condition.
4. Get active.
5. Avoid drugs and alcohol.
6. Get routine medical care.

Is There a Cure for Personality Disorders? Personality disorders are difficult to cure because people who suffer from the condition often have abnormal thoughts and behaviors that prevent them from thinking and functioning as well as they should.

Doctors sometimes find it difficult to diagnose personality disorders. This can be because of the following. An overlap with other mental health problems can make it difficult to pinpoint or ‘narrow down’ symptoms. Personality disorders are complex.

Some theories of personality disorder view it as developmental delay, which a person may be able to grow out of. Studies show that a fair number of children and early adolescents report signs and symptoms consistent with a personality disorder. For many, these symptoms decrease over time.

Personality disorders result from the interaction of genes and environment. That is, some people are born with a genetic tendency to have a personality disorder, and this tendency is then suppressed or enhanced by environmental factors.

But borderline personality disorder does not develop as a result of those traumas. Instead, it is a combination of genetic factors and childhood experiences (early environmental influences) that cause a person to develop borderline personality disorder.

They fail to integrate the aggressive and libidinal factors at play in other people, and thus are not able to parse their own experiences. It can be caused by a neurobiological immaturity of brain functioning, or through a childhood trauma, or other means.

Antisocial personality disorder: Tendency to not care about others to the point of being aggressive and violent, or violating other people’s rights.

Characteristics of Mental Health

• They feel good about themselves.
• They do not become overwhelmed by emotions, such as fear, anger, love, jealousy, guilt, or anxiety.
• They have lasting and satisfying personal relationships.
• They feel comfortable with other people.
• They can laugh at themselves and with others.

What causes them?

• childhood abuse, trauma, or neglect.
• social isolation or loneliness.
• experiencing discrimination and stigma.
• social disadvantage, poverty or debt.
• bereavement (losing someone close to you)
• severe or long-term stress.
• having a long-term physical health condition.
• unemployment or losing your job.

The authors conclude, “Similar to Carl Rogers’ portrayal of the ‘fully functioning’ person, the psychologically healthy person can be characterized as being capable to experience and express emotions, straightforward, warm, friendly, genuine, confident in their own abilities, emotionally stable, and fairly resilient to …