The following are different personality disorders with their basic chracteristics.
- Border Line: Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious mental illness characterized by persistent instability in behavior, moods, interpersonal relationships, and self-image . The feeling of unsecurity often disrupts family and work life, long-term planning, and the individual's sense of self-identity.
- Schizotypal: It is a condition characterized by acute discomfort with, and reduced capacity for, close relationships as well as by cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior. This disorder is only diagnosed when these behaviors become persistent and very disabling or distressing.
- Paranoid: PPD is a type of psychological personality disorder characterized by an extreme and exagerated level of distrust and suspicion of others. Paranoid personalities are generally difficult to get along with, and their combative and distrustful nature often elicits hostility in others.
- Narcissistic: This personality and mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance and a deep need for admiration, makes people believe they are superior to others and have little regard for others feelings. But behind this mask of ultra-confidence lies a fragile self-esteem, vulnerable to the slightest criticism.
- Histrionic: It is a disorder in which people have intense, unstable emotions and distorted self-images. For people with histrionic personality disorder, their self-esteem depends on the approval of others and does not arise from a true feeling of self-worth.
- Antisocial: Disorder in which someones way of thinking, perceiving situations and relating to others is working bad, having no regard for right and wrong. Antisocials may often violate the law and the rights of others, landing theirself in frequent trouble or conflict. In most of the cases they lie, behave violently, and may have drug and alcohol problems.
- Obsessive-compulsive: Anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors (compulsions). Repetitive behaviors such as handwashing, counting, checking, or cleaning are often performed with the hope of preventing obsessive thoughts or making them go away.
- Avoidant: Personality disorder in which a person has a lifelong pattern of feeling extremely shy, inadequate, and sensitive to rejection.
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