PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Reduced Affect Display, Prodrome, Psychopathy
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A lot of people don"t have disability symptoms, and they don"t cause distress. If you are having a major disorder you are distress, if you are talking about ptsd you will have distress. The magical words are the traits that are not long standing, they are not persvuasive and inflexible. Longstanding, pervasive, and inflexible patterns of behaviour and inner experience. Deviate from the expectations of a person"s culture (dependent personality has to be with someone and do whatever it takes to do something with that someone. If you are a narcissist you would show all your traits. They are there for a long time, in matter of context and situation. They are inflexible, they cant change their personality no matter what they are faced with. Heterogeneity in the symptoms that characterized different disorders. Not all caused distress, they are ridged an ant change. Some are unaware that they present these behavioral abnormality, when we diagnosed.
