Personality Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm • Enduring pattern of experience and behaviour that deviates from cultural expectations, manifest in two or more of the following areas: cognition, affectivity, interpersonal functioning, and impulse control • The pattern is inflexible and pervasive across many social and personal situations • The pattern leads to distress or impairment in important areas of functioning • The pattern is stable and of long duration, with an onset that can be traced back to childhood or adolescence • The pattern is not due to another mental illness, a general medical condition, or substance use Cluster A: Odd or Eccentric • Paranoid - irrational suspicion or mistrust • Schizoid - emotional detachment, lack of interest in social relationships • Schizotypal - Odd beliefs Cluster B: Dramatic, Emotional, or Social • Antisocial - disregard for social norms, the law, and rights of others • Borderline - instability of identity, relationships, and behaviour • Histrionic - attention-seeking, exaggerated emotional expression • Narcissistic - grandiosity, need for admiration, lack of empathy Cluster C: Anxious or Fearful • Avoidant - social inhibition, inadequacy, hypersensitivity • Dependent - psychological dependence on others) • Obsessive-Compulsive - rigid, inflexible conformity to rules, order, and codes) #Personality #Disorders #Differential #Diagnosis #Algorithm #Psychiatry
