YOU SEE!!! Thats why the world is in the mess that its in!!! KEY TERMS: Character—An individuals set of emotional, cognitive, and behavioral patterns learned and accumulated over time. Character disorder—Another name for personality disorder Description: To meet the diagnosis of personality disorder, which is sometimes called character disorder, the patients problematic behaviors must appear in two or more of the following areas: perception and interpretation of the self and other people intensity and duration of feelings and their appropriateness to situations relationships with others ability to control impulses By contrast, DSM-IV classifies personality disorders into three clusters based on symptom similarities: Cluster A (paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal): Patients appear odd or eccentric to others. Cluster B (antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic): Patients appear overly emotional, unstable, or self-dramatizing to others. Cluster C (avoidant, dependent, obsessive-compulsive): Patients appear tense and anxiety-ridden to others. The DSM-IV clustering system does not mean that all patients can be fitted neatly into one of the three clusters. It is possible for patients to have symptoms of more than one personality disorder or to have symptoms from different clusters It is difficult to give close estimates of the percentage of the population that has personality disorders. Patients with certain personality disorders, including antisocial and borderline disorders, are more likely to get into trouble with the law or otherwise attract attention than are patients whose disorders chiefly affect their capacity for intimacy. On the other hand, some patients, such as those with narcissistic or obsessive-compulsive personality disorders, may be outwardly successful because their symptoms are useful within their particular occupations. It has, however, been estimated that about 15% of the general population of the United States has a personality disorder, with higher rates in poor or troubled neighborhoods. The rate of personality disorders among patients in psychiatric treatment is between 30% and 50%. It is possible for patients to have a so-called dual diagnosis; for example, they may have more than one personality disorder, or a personality disorder together with a substance-abuse problem. encyclopedia/topic/Personality_disorders.aspx My point being, we need to be able to know the difference between character and personality - they are not the same thing. Plus, in true esssence, about 90-95% of the global population has a true character disorder. :-(
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 04:15:44 +0000
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