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Questions:
1. Write a short response to the student's discussion board post:
2. What are some commonalities across personality disorders?
3. What did you learn that surprised or was new to you?
In your response posts, provide additional insight on your peers' insight and commentary.
Case Study: Some of the commonalities across personality disorders tend to be that there are genetic and environmental factors at play. A lot of those presenting with personality disorders also tended to have experieced neglect, abuse, or some sort of trauma. Often these personality disorders will tend to be intergenerational. People with personality disorders tend to be disconnected from reality in that there are those who are actually interacting with voices or presences that are not there- i.e., Cluster A disorders- to being internally disconnected from reality where they do no perceive themselves as being good enough to have relationships with others- i.e., Cluster C disorders.
Treatment for most of these disorders tends to be a combination of therapy and medications. It is important to note that not all disorders can be treated with medication nor do people with personality disorders often present for treatment specifically about their disorder. They will often come in at the prompting of close friends or family or through legal issues like criminal behavior or substance abuse.
I think the things that suprise me the most about a lot of these disorders is how the symptoms in many of them tend to overlap. You can have people that are vacillating between emotions with all of the disorders. The Cluster A disorders do tend to present their own specific set of symptoms, like speaking with those who aren't there, hearing messages and that sort of thing but the Cluster B and C disorders tend to have emotional outbursts that without a trained clinician could get confused. I wonder how many people get diagnosed differently depending on who they see and how they are presenting at the time of diagnosis.