X DANTE – Personality Disorders

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Personality Disorders


 

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You are likely to:

  • find it very difficult to trust other people, believing they will use you, or take advantage of you
  • find it hard to confide in people, even your friends
  • watch others closely, looking for signs of betrayal or hostility
  • suspect that your partner is being unfaithful, with no evidence
  • read threats and danger – which others don’t see – into everyday situations

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You are likely to:

  • be uninterested in forming close relationships with other people including your family
  • feel that relationships interfere with your freedom and tend to cause problems
  • prefer to be alone with your own thoughts
  • choose to live your life without interference from others
  • get little pleasure from life
  • have little interest in sex or intimacy
  • be emotionally cold towards others

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You are likely to:

  • find making close relationships extremely difficult
  • think and express yourself in ways that others find ‘odd’, using unusual words or phrases
  • behave in ways that others find eccentric
  • believe that you can read minds or that you have special powers such as a ‘sixth sense’
  • feel anxious and tense with others who do not share these beliefs
  • feel very anxious and paranoid in social situations

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You are likely to:

  • act impulsively and recklessly, often without considering the consequences for yourself or for other people
  • behave dangerously and sometimes illegally
  • behave in ways that are unpleasant for others
  • do things – even though they may hurt people – to get what you want, putting your needs above theirs
  • feel no sense of guilt if you have mistreated others
  • be irritable and aggressive and get into fights easily
  • be very easily bored and you may find it difficult to hold down a job for long
  • believe that only the strongest survive and that you must do whatever it takes to lead a successful life, because if you don’t grab opportunities, others will
  • have a criminal record
  • have had a diagnosis of conduct disorder before the age of 15

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You are likely to:

  • feel that you don’t have a strong sense of who you really are, and others may describe you as very changeable
  • suffer from mood swings, switching from one intense emotion to another very quickly, often with angry outbursts
  • have brief psychotic episodes, hearing voices or seeing things that others don’t
  • do things on impulse, which you later regret
  • have episodes of harming yourself, and think about taking your own life
  • have a history of stormy or broken relationships
  • have a tendency to cling on to very damaging relationships, because you are terrified of being alone

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You are likely to:

  • feel very uncomfortable if you are not the center of attention
  • feel much more at ease as the ‘life and soul of the party’
  • feel that you have to entertain people
  • flirt or behave provocatively to ensure that you remain the center of attention
  • get a reputation for being dramatic and overemotional
  • feel dependent on the approval of others
  • be easily influenced by others

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You are likely to:

  • believe that there are special reasons that make you different, better or more deserving than others
  • have fragile self-esteem, so that you rely on others to recognize your worth and your needs
  • feel upset if others ignore you and don’t give you what you feel you deserve
  • resent other people’s successes
  • put your own needs above other people’s, and demand they do too
  • be seen as selfish and ‘above yourself’
  • take advantage of other people

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You are likely to:

  • avoid work or social activities that mean you must be with others
  • expect disapproval and criticism and be very sensitive to it
  • worry constantly about being ‘found out’ and rejected
  • worry about being ridiculed or shamed by others
  • avoid relationships, friendships and intimacy because you fear rejection
  • feel lonely and isolated, and inferior to others
  • be reluctant to try new activities in case you embarrass yourself

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You are likely to:

  • feel needy, weak and unable to make decisions or function properly without help or support
  • allow others to assume responsibility for many areas of your life
  • agree to things you feel are wrong or you dislike to avoid being alone or losing someone’s support
  • be afraid of being left to fend for yourself
  • have low self-confidence
  • see other people as being much more capable than you are
  • be seen by others as much too submissive and passive

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You are likely to:

  • need to keep everything in order and under control
  • set unrealistically high standards for yourself and others
  • think yours is the best way of making things happen
  • worry when you or others might make mistakes
  • expect catastrophes if things aren’t perfect
  • be reluctant to spend money on yourself or others
  • have a tendency to hang on to items with no obvious value

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