If we encourage people to be inviduals, then why is it when some one is excentric or odd in anyform people say its a personality disorder?
2007-01-27 14:03:48 · 15 answers · asked by ஐKatஐ 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Some disorders make it impossible for people to function in everyday life. Such as making it impossible to hold a job. Many of these disorders exist because of a medical problem. They do not necessarily affect a persons character.
2007-01-27 14:09:48 · answer #1 · answered by JAN 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a saying that there has not been an original thought since adam and eve walked in the garden of eden. A personality disorder is a collection of unhealthy patterns of coping with life (life strategies), unhealthy patterns of relating to people or unhealthy belief systems regarding oneself and life etc. It is a descriptive label, rather than diagnostic. As such when the mental health profession compiled and subsequently re-write the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) they looked around at similiarities in symptoms, then proceed to group and label those symptoms occuring similarily in individuals under the umbrella of one disorders. Personality disorders are then grouped together in three groups. Cluster A (Characterized by odd and bizzare thinking/actions)- Paranoid, Schizoid & Schisotypal Disorder. Cluster B (Characterized by erractic and dramatic behaviour) antisocial, narcissistic, borderline and histrionic personality disorder. Cluster C (anxious and inhibited behaviour) dependant and obsessive compulsive personality disorder. Even though a person may develope those characteristics indicative of certain personality disorders, those manifestation will have been flavoured by the persons own individuality, however those symptoms will produce similiar problems within that person's life.
2007-01-27 23:17:02 · answer #2 · answered by Eve/Eski 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
excellent question.
I do believe that there are personality disorders in their extreme form but I believe that a lot of people today are "pop psychologists" who run around trying to give everyone their professional opinion when they've only had Psychology 101 in college...if that.
Those distinctions should only be made by doctors and even they are not 100% correct all the time.
Either very few of us are really crazy or we're all crazy (which is what most people outside of America think we are anyway).
2007-01-27 14:08:35 · answer #3 · answered by zzzzzzzzz27 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although we are individuals with our own personalities we are of the same species. That is a force that is stronger than our individuality. We can look at chimpanzees and see that they all have their own individual personalities but if one wants to act like an elephant we would know that something is wrong. No different for humans.
2007-01-27 14:08:11 · answer #4 · answered by mizflame98 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
everybody is looking for some one~remember the words to the song~some of them want to be used by u~~~but most of the just want to dump their feeling so they can move on and u try not to die under the wet blanket of this u didn't c coming cuming is sexual~coming out of the mouth with a dumping is verbal but has most attachments than u can imagine cause the brain is kinda big & mysterious when it needs a body(yours) to dump their head load on~i just sit and smile at the little woman and get the three excidern and move on~i dribble at the corners of both ears eyes and choke sometimes too~LOL
2007-01-27 22:44:57 · answer #5 · answered by bev 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A disorder is a personality aspect which significantly impedes a person from functioning well in society. We may all be different, but there are necessarily common standards of action and conduct.
2007-01-27 14:07:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
personality disorders is (what i think) when people have too many different personalities and it just goes nuts. I dont mean when your shy, and your creative, and your athletic at the same time. Its when one day, your a total jock. Then the next day, your a total artist. Etc. Its like, an identity problem.
2007-01-27 14:06:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Strictly speaking, a professional psychologist will not term any behaviour as a "disorder" unless it disrupts your life to a significant degree, so that you cannot function as a working, healthy person in society. Eccentricity is NOT a disorder.
2007-01-27 14:07:52 · answer #8 · answered by crabskulls 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that the key word there is disorder. When a personality disorders the life of that person or those around him or her then its no longer individuality or eccentricity, its disfunction and disorder. Think harm level.
2007-01-27 14:07:26 · answer #9 · answered by teetzijo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When is normal , normal? - never?, well it's all about what is "Socially acceptable" - retarded, Yes. - It's our kinks, and habits that make us , us - and more often than not, someone else will fall in love with the things that we are unaware we are doing. The... " I like that way you...." stuff
But I'm glad not everybody has these "disorders" because if everyone had them - they would then be normal.
2007-01-27 14:07:00 · answer #10 · answered by Dustin S 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋