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Personality Disorders
The term personality refers to the patters of thinking, feeling, and behaving that form the identity of an individual. Some people though, have personality characteristics that cause them serious distress or interfere with their daily life. These people may be suffering from personality disorders.
Psychological disorders often begin in early childhood, but during adolescence there is an increase in the number of people affected by these disorders. Personality is affected by both hereditary and environmental factors. ... Your childhood, your experiences, your later achievements and disappointments can affect and gradually change your personality as well. If psychological disorders are identified early it is possible to prevent serious consequences. Most personality disorders are slow to change without medical intervention. Today, personality disorders are divided into 10 types: paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic, avoidant, dependant, and obsessive-compulsive.
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