Disorder of Adult Personality and Behaviour
Personality disorders are a type of health condition in which the attitudes, beliefs and behaviours cause a constant problems in one's life.
When we talk of personality it refers to the pattern of thoughts, feelings and behaviour that makes each of us the individuals that we are and this is also called as individuality. We all think , feel, perceive things and react in different way than others. Our reactions also change with the changing circumstances and situations.
However, if you have a personality disorder you may often experience difficulties in how you think about yourself and others. And you may find it difficult to change these unwanted patterns which cause disruptions in your interactions and relationships.
What are the signs of a Personality Disorder?
You might be given a diagnosis of personality disorder if all three of these apply:
- The way you think, feel and behave causes you or others significant problems in daily life. For example, you may feel unable to trust others or you may often feel abandoned, causing you or others unhappiness.
- The way you think, feel and behave causes significant problems across different aspects of your life. You may struggle to start or keep friendships, to control your feelings and behaviour or get on with people at work, for example.
- These problems continue for a long time. These difficult patterns may have started when you were a child or teenager and can carry on into your life as an adult.
Sometimes due to extreme traumatic experiences, there is a hostile or distrustful attitude toward the world, social withdrawal, feelings of emptiness or hopelessness, a chronic feeling of "being on edge" as if constantly threatened, and estrangement.
Other conditions related to Sexual preference and bizarre sexual behaviour:
Normal and “abnormal” sexual interests and behaviors are defined and differentiated as per the norms of the society and culture in which the person lives. Things which may be normal for some, may not be normal for the other society.
Paraphilia
A mental disorder in which the sexual instinct is expressed in ways that are socially prohibited or unacceptable or are biologically undesirable, such as the use of a nonhuman object for sexual arousal, sexual activity done forcefully or by luring, misguiding another person or a child that involves real or simulated suffering, distress, humiliation or impairment, or forced sexual relations with a non consenting partner. Kinds of paraphilia include exhibitionism, pedophilia, transvestism, voyeurism, and zoophilia.
Read more about Paraphilias at https://ritu-thephoenix.blogspot.in/2018/05/perilous-state-of-paraphilics.html#more
In Pathological gambling, the patient has frequent, repeated episodes of gambling that dominate the patient's life and impacts his social, occupational, material, and family values and commitments. Includes: Compulsive gambling
(Text partly reproduced courtesy mind.org,uk and Science direct.com)