PERSONALITY DISORDER – INTRODUCTION
Q. 1 True about personality disorder:
| A | It arises during childhood | |
| B |
It matures during adulthood |
|
| C |
Suspiciousness is seen in paranoid personality disorder. |
|
| D |
All |
Q. 1
True about personality disorder:
| A |
It arises during childhood |
|
| B |
It matures during adulthood |
|
| C |
Suspiciousness is seen in paranoid personality disorder. |
|
| D |
All |
Ans.
D
A
Explanation:
A. i.e. It arises during childhood; B. i.e. It matures during adult; C i.e. Suspiciousness is seen in paranoid personality disorder
Q. 2
In personality disorder, features are all except
| A |
Ego dystonia |
|
| B |
Starts in childhood |
|
| C |
Behavior is maladaptive |
|
| D |
Disorder results in personal distress |
Ans.
Explanation:
Ans. ‘A’ i.e., Ego dystonia
Features of personality disorders
- Most often the first sign of a personality disorder appears in late childhood or adolescence and continues during adulthood.
- Someone with a personality disorder holds attitudes and behaves in ways that can cause considerable problems for themselves and others.
- Behaviour is long-standing (not limited to an episode of mental illness).
- Behaviour is pervasive and maladaptive.
- Disorder results in personal distress and social or occupational dysfunction.
- Behavior is fixed and inflexible.
- Personality disorders are ego-syntonic.
- They are not due to a direct result of disease or substance.
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