Is this a personality disorder, post traumatic stress, social anxiety, or something else
Someone I know has 5 of the symptoms of each schizotypal and borderline personality disorders and 7 of the avoidant personality disorder. That's enough for an armchair diagnosis in all 3. The self destructive behaviors were not recurring, being only one or 2 episodes each of the borderline type, and being mostly in the past. Currently has episodic (rather than ongoing) and mild to moderate magical thinking, temper/anger/rage, suspiciousness, dissassociative state, and many avoidant behaviors. This person is not dellusional or psychotic and has none of the characteristics of the other personality disorders such as paranoid, schizoid, anti-social, histrionic, narcissistic, dependant or OCPD. The suspiciousness and avoidant behaviors are based on past negative experiences. Is there a differential diagnosis that includes all of these qualities? Or is this just a milder personality disorder. No cut and paste. Provide experience or education and links please. THanks.
Answer:Did you have "your friend" take one of thise on line personality tests? There are two main rules in psychology: don't diagnose your self and don't take the DSM IV personally. Everyone displays a few symptoms of different disorders, making it seem like they could be diagnosed with everything. That is why doc's get paid the big bucks to do the diagnosing for us. There are a lot of things that must be taken into account, besides past and present symptoms. Like how much does it effect thier life and thier mental stability.
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