Personality
Disorders (Wiki)
"Odd" or
"Eccentric" disorders
Personality disorders, in essence, are long term,
inflexible patterns of behaviour which impact on one's daily life to
such a point that they cause significant distress.
Paranoid Personality
Disorder (Wiki)
A
psychiatric diagnosis that centres around paranoia. Patients are overly suspicious,
hypersensitive to social movement, distort everyday
occurrences to fit within their paranoid delusions and generally distrust people as a
whole. Patients may not simultaneously experience
similar symptoms whilst suffering from another
psychiatric condition that tends to cause
such symptoms.
Schizoid Personality
Disorder (Wiki)
A comparatively
rare personality disorder, SPD exhibits symptoms of social withdrawal, emotional
flattening and a lack of interest in life.
Patients must experience at least three of the
following symptoms in addition to the general criteria
for personality disorders as a whole: emotional flattening,
solitude, few social interactions, indifference to
social trends, lack of libido, abnormal interest in
paranormal/supernatural/magical worlds.
Schizotypal Personality
Disorder (Wiki)
Also
referred to as "Schizotypal Disorder"
A
personality disorder hallmarked with psychotic symptoms. Patients become detached from reality and often
become withdrawn, isolated and reclusive; they can also
suffer from delusions.
A criteria for this disorder are as follows:
Eccentric behaviour; paranoia, magical thinking, hypersensitivity,
odd mood, unusual thinking patterns, a lack of social
interaction, social anxiety.
Additionally, patients must not be suffering from an
established psychotic illness.