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Personality Disorder Test Results
Paranoid |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Schizoid |||||||||||||| 58%
Schizotypal |||||||||||||||||| 74%
Antisocial |||||||||||| 46%
Borderline |||||||||||||||||| 78%
Histrionic |||||| 22%
Narcissistic |||||||||| 34%
Avoidant |||||||||||||||| 62%
Dependent |||||||||||||||| 66%
Obsessive-Compulsive |||||||||||| 46%
*scores in gray are the average web score
Test Note: Read the descriptions below to avoid misinterpreting test results (for example, the Antisocial classification does not mean you are a loner, it means you tend to be insensitive towards others).
Disorder Info
Eccentric Personality Disorders: Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal
Individuals with these disorders often appear odd or peculiar.
Paranoid Personality Disorder - individual generally tends to interpret the actions of others as threatening; preoccupied with suspiciousness/paranoia. They are stuck between their need for others and their mistrust of others.
Schizoid Personality Disorder - individual generally detached from social relationships, and shows a narrow range of emotional expression in various social settings; emotional zombies who stopped feeling due to trauma(s) and/or can't feel due to organic depression
Schizotypal Personality Disorder - individual is uncomfortable in close relationships, has thought or perceptual distortions, and peculiarities of behavior; preoccupied with seeing themselves and/or the world as strange/odd
Dramatic Personality Disorders: Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, and Narcissistic
Individuals with these disorders have intense, unstable emotions, distorted self-perception, and/or behavioral impulsiveness.
Antisocial Personality Disorder - individual shows a pervasive disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others; Preoccupied with disdain/contempt for others and often a need for control/power over others.
Borderline Personality Disorder - individual shows a generalized pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and observable emotions, and significant impulsiveness. Core issue is an inability to regulate emotions.
Histrionic Personality Disorder - individual often displays excessive emotionality and attention seeking in various contexts. They tend to overreact to other people, and are often perceived as shallow and self-centered. Core issue is attention addiction.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder - individual has a grandiose view of themselves, a need for admiration, and a lack of empathy that begins by early adulthood and is present in various situations. These individuals are very demanding in their relationships. Core issue is entitlement.
Schizophrenia is a very misunderstood condition. It is not a split personality condition. It is a psychotic disorder, rather than a mood disorder, which means that there is a loss of contact with reality. It is caused by a different type of chemical imbalance than a mood disorder. Schizophrenia is a thought disorder where one loses the ability to tell what is real and what is imaginary. This disorder is a chemical imbalance in the orientation part of the brain but it can also affect the mood control center to cause mood symptoms as well.
Schizophrenia (or any psychotic breakdown) can be identified by the following behaviors:
You feel either emotionally flat and withdrawn, or very excited and grandiose, and possibly hostile.
You have poor verbal communication and your thoughts are disorganized and unconnected.
You are suffering from delusional thinking. You believe things that are outside the realm of reality to be real (or true) despite a lack of evidence (often religiously related).
You see or hear things that others can not.
You feel like you are being watched or followed by individuals or organizations.
During the psychotic episode you loose touch with reality and are unable to perform your normal life functions. People with psychotic disorders are in need of immediate medical attention.
Psychotic illnesses have many complex symptoms that require professional evaluation in addition to these listed.
Schizophrenia usually begins in young adults like the other mood disorders. It affects two percent of the population, which makes it more common and far more disabling than diabetes. Like the mood disorders, it tends to be a recurring condition.
Schizophrenics often feel that they are being watched, followed or persecuted. They may hear voices and see things that no one else can. They often have peculiar beliefs that have no basis in reality. Schizophrenia is a more difficult condition to treat than the mood disorders, and the medications, called antipsychotics, tend to have more side effects. Antidepressants and mood stabilizers can also be used in schizophrenia if there are many depressive thoughts or wide mood swings along with the psychosis.
Minimal emotional dysfunction and first impression formation in personality disorders
"Minimal cerebral dysfunctions" are isolated impairments of basic mental functions, which are elements of complex functions like speech. The best described are cognitive dysfunctions such as reading and writing problems, dyscalculia, attention deficits, but also motor dysfunctions such as problems with articulation, hyperactivity or impulsivity. Personality disorders can be characterized by isolated emotional dysfunctions in relation to emotional adequacy, intensity and responsivity. For example, paranoid personality disorders can be characterized by continuous and inadequate distrust, as a disorder of emotional adequacy. Schizoid personality disorders can be characterized by low expressive emotionality, as a disorder of effect intensity, or dissocial personality disorders can be characterized by emotional non-responsivity. Minimal emotional dysfunctions cause interactional misunderstandings because of the psychology of "first impression formation". Studies have shown that in 100 ms persons build up complex and lasting emotional judgements about other persons. Therefore, minimal emotional dysfunctions result in interactional problems and adjustment disorders and in corresponding cognitive schemata.From the concept of minimal emotional dysfunctions specific psychotherapeutic interventions in respect to the patient-therapist relationship, the diagnostic process, the clarification of emotions and reality testing, and especially an understanding of personality disorders as impairment and "selection, optimization, and compensation" as a way of coping can be derived.
 TheFallenJynx · Thu Jun 14, 2012 @ 05:20am · 0 Comments |
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