PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15.2-15.3: Fugue State, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder
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Borderline personality disorder (bpd) is characterized by intense extremes between positive and negative emotions, an unstable sense of self, impulsivity, and difficult social relationships. Narcissistic personality disorder (npd) is characterized by an inflated sense of self-importance and an excessive need for attention and admiration, as well as intense self-doubt and fear of abandonment. Histrionic personality disorder (hpd) is characterized by excessive attention seeking and dramatic behaviour: (cid:862)histrio(cid:374)i(cid:272)(cid:863) (cid:272)o(cid:373)es fro(cid:373) a lati(cid:374) word (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:862)like an actor or like a theatrical perfor(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863) Comorbidity is the presence o two disorders simultaneously. Dissociative disorder is a category of mental disorders characterized by a split between conscious awareness from feeling, cognition, memory, and identity. Dissociative disorders include the following conditions: dissociative fugue a period of profound autobiographical memory loss. Anxiety disorders are a category of disorders involving fear or nervousness that is excessive, irrational, and maladaptive: are the most frequently diagnosed disorders, affecting roughly 1/8 canadians.
