PSY BEH 11C Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Avoidant Personality Disorder, Dependent Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder
30 May 2019
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Good to be agreeable but if so agreeable that have no mind of your own. If you have personality disorder you & others are negatively impacted -> distress component. If affects entire life, will cause impairment -> not functioning as well. Traits or habits that characterize almost everything about individual. Everything about you is affected when have personality disorder. Cluster a: odd, eccentric (often called part of schizophrenia spectrum) Cluster b: dramatic, highly emotional, erratic (unpredictable) *big takeaway: people with personality disorders have maladaptive traits that are extreme ends of the normal continuum. Watchful behavior & looking out for danger. Body stays tense & ruminate often about what is creating anxiety. Since threat is in future but still anxious about it, will engage in certain behaviors to reduce anxiety. Expert in anxiety disorders is needed because those with anxiety often overestimate threats. Normal to have some fear & anxiety.
