personality disorder
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- noun
- /ˌpɜrsəˈnælɪti dɪsˈɔrdər/
- Specialized
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trastorno de la personalidad
- Early in his psychiatric training, he had decided to specialize in multiple personality disorders.
- antisocial personality disorder
- borderline personality disorder
- personality disorder symptoms
So narcissistic personality disorder is a personality disorder.
- So narcissistic personality disorder is a personality disorder.
- And there are people who have borderline personality disorder that report no childhood trauma or difficulty.
- People with dependent personality disorder are believed to have a pervasive and excessive need to be taken care of.
- OK, now when we jump the rails to narcissistic personality disorder, it's a whole different game.
- And then there are people that can be diagnosed as having a narcissistic personality disorder.
- No, because narcissistic personality disorder occurs before our sex and our gender roles have even set in.
- So you've got antisocial personality disorders and you've got schizophrenics.
- And how does this high conflict personality cut through all these personality disorder phenotypes?
- People don't believe people who have mental have personality disorder on their discharge papers.
- Maybe you know, everyone's wrong and he has some kind of paranoid delusional personality disorder.
- He goes, the first thing is schizophrenia and then he goes, you also have borderline personality disorder line personality.
Examples
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However, he does exhibit signs of Multiple Personality Disorder.
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There were no significant differences in cigarette or illicit drug use between participants with and without personality disorders.
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You suffer from multiple personality disorder.
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Have you ever heard of something called Borderline Personality Disorder?
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Substantial research has focused on the association between personality disorders and substance abuse among adults.
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Before that, I was diagnosed with a personality disorder due to abuse and neglect.
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There's something I want to fit in here and that is that we need to understand that people with personality disorders didn't choose to have them.
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Of the 121 participants, 38 (31%) were diagnosed with one or more personality disorders.
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In my constituency, we have the highest rates of borderline personality disorders in the country, yet have the fewest BPD specialists in the country.
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Many individuals with personality disorder struggle to maintain stable relationships due to their enduring behavior patterns.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is fully compositional: it denotes a 'disorder' that affects 'personality', so the overall meaning can be derived directly from the constituent words. This noun–noun construction is regular and mirrored in many languages (e.g. Spanish 'trastorno de la personalidad'), so B1 learners who know both constituents can infer the basic meaning even if they lack clinical detail.
Etymology
The term personality disorder comes from joining personality, a person's usual way of thinking, feeling, and acting, and disorder, meaning things are out of order. So, the phrase means a pattern of feeling, thinking, and behaving that lasts a long time and causes 'problems' in a person's life.