Borderline Personality Disorder and Substance Use Disorders Psychology of Addictions Alyx Brake Introduction Do you know anyone with drug and/or alcohol abuse disorder? Anyone with borderline personality disorder? Have you ever known anyone with both borderline personality disorder and drug and/or alcohol abuse disorder? When a person has a personality disorder they are more likely to become someone with a substance and/ or alcohol abuse disorder. A co-occurring disorder is a condition
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Introduction The purpose of this study is to compare and contrast the constructs of psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder. The aim is to highlight whether the terms psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder reflect the same construct or whether they differ. Furthermore‚ recommendations for treatment of criminal behavior will be explored. For the purposes of this evaluation some definitions need to be highlighted: Criminal offence is an act that breaks a law‚ which relates how to behave
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Personality disorders are a group of conditions that have long term behavior patterns that come from expectations of society and the serious problems in relationships which are created. People with personality disorders tend to be inflexible‚ rigid and manipulative (Hooley‚ Butcher‚ Nock‚ & Mineka‚ 2017). They often have one set way or perspective of everything and have difficulties connecting with other people socially. The DSM-5 personality disorders are grouped together into three groups based
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Borderline personality disorder is a very common in today’s society. Many personality disorders stem from some sort of trauma a person has had to endure. Leaving them with a feeling of distrust or being alone. Often the feelings that arose from within them lead to problems in relationships. Personality disorders origins are associated with many factors within three main categories. Being that the origins of personality disorders can be linked to psychological factors got me thinking about a friend
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Personality Disorders Constant abnormal feelings‚ thoughts and acts that are highly reoccurring in a person is usually the result of a personality disorder. Personality disorders are mental disorders observed and treated by psychologists and psychiatrists. They affect the daily life of the person suffering from the personality disorder and impact those around them. They suffer from impairments in their personality functions that are long-term and are basically incapable of controlling it. .Personality
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Borderline personality disorder is a mental disorder characterized by the unstable mood‚ relationships and behavior. People that have a borderline personality disorder share the same characteristic of splitting. The definition of splitting sees other people as entirety‚ good or entirely bad. The symptoms of borderline personality disorder are in the instability in self-image. The Dialectical Behavior therapy is most helpful for people that have borderline personality disorder because of the technique
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Borderline personality disorder also referred to as BPD‚ is a mental health disorder in which a person has extreme difficulties in regulating their emotions and thoughts. People diagnosed with BPD have continuous distorted thinking patterns of their self-image‚ relationships‚ and behavior. Along with these negative patterns‚ people with BPD experience severe mood swings such as heightened anxiety‚ depression‚ and irritability. These strong instabilities often lead patients to reckless and impulsive
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Borderline Personality Disorder #2.) What are the following biological and physiological factors that may explain the Cause(s) of this disorder or explain the changes in these factors that are attributes to the disorder? Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) patients have a hard time regulating emotion. This makes them socially sensitive and moody. BPD patients are often unable to control;m emotional stability‚ impulsive behavior‚ and interpersonal relationships. “Borderline” describes patients
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An Analysis on Multiple Personality Disorder in novels American Psycho and Tell Me Your Dreams Identity issue is a central theme in the novels of Bret Easton Ellis and Sidney Sheldon. Ellis’ novel American Psycho portrays a charming Patrick Bateman who cannot identify the real world from his fantasy and Sheldon’s Tell Me Your Dream illustrates Ashley Patterson having two alter egos. The issue of identity conflict within the characters is what brings the characters to a loss of identity. Hence‚ in
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Antisocial Personality Disorder “Antisocial” is a constantly used slang for different‚ abnormal‚ or socially awkward individuals. But do we really know what’s behind this word’s meaning? In the U.S‚ approximately 1% of the population have an antisocial disorder‚ of which three percent of them are males and only one percent are female. Why is that number so low? These individuals are incredibly difficult to identify and tend to blend into society very easily. Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) is
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