What Are Personality Disorders?
2. What Are Cluster A Disorders?
Cluster A personality disorders include paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorder. Though the schizo prefix brings to mind schizophrenia, this latter condition is not a personality disorder at all but a severe mental illness that affects mood, emotions, and personality and often presents with hallucinations.
Schizotypal patients are typically considered eccentric and may have an unkempt appearance with persistent preoccupations and anxiety. A patient with schizoid personality disorder, on the other hand, might have a total lack of pleasure in social activities, a lack of interest in sex, and a cold demeanor. Paranoid personality disorder patients distrust everyone and develop odd or conspiratorial ways of thinking.
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