Paranoid Personality: SUSPECT Spouse fidelity suspected Unforgiving (bears grudges) Perceives attacks (& reacts quickly) "Enemy or friend" (suspects associated & friends) Confiding in others feared Threats perceived in benign events Schizoid Personality: DISTANT Detached (or flattended affect) Indifferent to criticism or praise Sexual experiences of little interest Tasks (activities) done solitarily Absense of close friends Neither desires nor enjoys close relations Takes pleasure in few activities Schizotypal Personality: ME PECULIAR Magical thinking or odd beliefs Experience unusual perceptions Paranoid ideation Eccentric behavior or appearance Constricted (or inappropriate) affect Unusual (odd) thinking and speech Lacks close friends Ideas of reference Anxiety in social situations Rule out psychotic disorders Borderline Personality Disorder: AM SUICIDE Abandonement Mood instability (marked reactivity of mood) Suicidal (or self-mutilating) behavior Unstable & intense relationships Impulsivity (in two potentially self-damaging areas) Control of anger Identity Disturbance Dissociative (or paranoid) symptoms that are transient & stress related Emptiness (chronic feelings of) Antisocial Personality Disorder: CORRUPT Conformity to law lacking Obligations ignored Reckless disregard for safety of self or others Remorse lacking Underhanded (deceitful, lies, cons others) Planning insufficient (impulsive) Temper (irritable and aggressive) Narcissistic Personality Disorder: SPE3CIAL Special (believes he or she is special and unique) Preoccupied with fantasies (of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty or ideal love) Envious (of others, or believes others are envioius of him or her) Entitlement Excess admiration required Conceited (grandiose sense of self importance) Interpersonal exploitation Arrogant Lacks empathy Avoidant Personality Disorder: CRINGES Certainty (of being liked required before willing to get involved with others) Rejection (or criticism) preoccupies ones' thought in social situations Intimate relationships (restraint in intimate relationships due to fear of being shamed) New interpersonal relationships (is inhibited in) Gets around occupational activity (involving significant interpersonal contact) Embarassment (potential) prevents new activity or taking personal risks Self viewed (as unappealing, inept, or inferior) Dependent Personality Disorder: RELIANCE Reassurance (required for decisions) Expressing disagreement difficult (due to fear of loss of support or approval) Life responsibilities (needs to have these assumed by others) Initiating projects difficult (due to lack of self confidence) Alone (feels helplessness & discomfort when alone) Nurturance (goes to excessive lengths to obtain nurturance and support) Companionship (another relationship) sought urgently when close relationship ends Exaggerated fears of being left to care for self Obssessive Compulsive Personality: LAW FIRMS Loses point of activity (preoccupations with details) Ability to complete tasks (compromised by perfectionism) Worthless objects (unable to discard) Friendships (& leisure activities) excluded (due to preoccupations with work) Inflexible, scrupulous, over conscientious (on ethics, values or morality) Reluctant to delegate (unless others submit to exact guidelines) Miserly (toward self and others) Stubborness (& rigidity)