Personality Disorders

A personality disorder is defined as a disruptive, inflexible, and enduring patterns of behavior that impair one's social functioning. Personality disorders are split into three different clusters: 
1. Anxiety 2. Eccentric behaviors and 3. Dramatic or impulsive behaviors

There are 6 different types of personality disorders:
1. Avoidant Personality Disorder: Fearful sensitivity to rejection - the person is constantly being afraid of being rejected and it's not just in certain situations, it's in every situation that they are in. After a while of avoiding people and being to afraid to talk to them, people will stop interacting with you as well.

2. Narcissistic personality disorder: Self-focused and self-inflating - The person is so focused on themselves that they will push themselves up without caring if they are pushing anyone down. They are full of themselves and everything is about "me." They have no empathy for others. Also, they are very manipulative.

3. Histrionic Personality disorder: Dramatic, impulsive, and attention-seeking behaviors - They always need to be the center of attention and they crave inappropriate behaviors. They want to have an intense relationship with someone. They are very superficial and are more likely to have risk taking behaviors. They want to have these behaviors and they have them all the time. 

4. Antisocial Personality Disorder: (psychopath) lack of conscience that cause the person to lie, steal, fight, or display unrestrained sexual behaviors - They don't feel guilty for their actions. A rapist is more likely to be a psychopath. They are very charming. It's not just their personality, there is also a different brain activity that a psychopath will have: There is reduced activity in the murderers’ frontal lobes, which is an area of the cortex that helps control impulses. Violent repeat offenders had 11% less frontal lobe tissue than normal.

5. Schizoid Personality disorder: Eccentric behaviors focusing on emotionless disengagement - They are really emotionally disengaged. They are more dark, gothic people who don't conform to society. It is considered Schizoid Personality disorder when it is extreme to the point where it impedes their functioning.

6. Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder: Obsession with cleanliness, orderliness, and neatness - It is a rigid way of thinking. They are very neat and organized. It impact their functioning and other peoples' lives. They are obsessed with everything being cleaned. They are not aware that they are doing these things.

I think that the worst at of all of these are Antisocial Personality Disorder. Where the other Personality Disorders are effecting other peoples' lives also, this one is truly harmful to other peoples' lives. It isn't just different behaviors that they perform that are not seen as "normal" in society. It is that they don't realize that they are doing something wrong and they are truly harming someone's life without even noticing it and I think that's what makes it the scariest.