
Personality disorders
- when normal personality traits become inflexible and maladaptive, causing subjective distress or impaired social functioning, they can be considered disorders.

Paranoid personality disorder
- Nonpsychotic personality disorder marked by hypersensitivity, jealousy, and unwarranted suspicion with tendency to blame others for one's shortcomings.

Affective personality disorder
- chronic mood disturbance of at least 2 years' duration involving numerous hypomanic episodes separated by periods of depression or loss of pleasure or interest.
- Affective disorder characterized by alternating and recurring periods of depression and elation, similar to manic depressive disorder but of a less severe nature.

Affective personality disorder unspecified
- chronic mood disturbance of at least 2 years' duration involving numerous hypomanic episodes separated by periods of depression or loss of pleasure or interest.
- Affective disorder characterized by alternating and recurring periods of depression and elation, similar to manic depressive disorder but of a less severe nature.

Chronic hypomanic personality disorder

Chronic depressive personality disorder

Cyclothymic disorder
- chronic mood disturbance of at least 2 years' duration involving numerous hypomanic episodes separated by periods of depression or loss of pleasure or interest.
- Affective disorder characterized by alternating and recurring periods of depression and elation, similar to manic depressive disorder but of a less severe nature.

Schizoid personality disorder
- individuals exhibit a pervasive pattern of indifference to social relationships and a restricted range of emotional experience and expression, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts.
- Personality disorder characterized by alienation, shyness, oversensitivity, seclusiveness, egocentricity, avoidance of intimate relationships, autistic thinking, and withdrawal from and lack of response to the environment.

Schizoid personality disorder unspecified
- individuals exhibit a pervasive pattern of indifference to social relationships and a restricted range of emotional experience and expression, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts.
- Personality disorder characterized by alienation, shyness, oversensitivity, seclusiveness, egocentricity, avoidance of intimate relationships, autistic thinking, and withdrawal from and lack of response to the environment.

Introverted personality

Schizotypal personality disorder
- Personality disorder characterized by eccentric thoughts and appearance, inappropriate affect and behavior, extreme social anxiety, and limited interpersonal interaction.

Explosive personality disorder
- form of behavior which leads to self-assertion; it may arise from innate drives and/or a response to frustration; may be manifested by destructive and attacking behavior, by covert attitudes of hostility and obstructionism, or by healthy self-expressive drive to mastery.
- Tendency to display unpredictable and rapidly changing emotions or moods.
- Disorder characterized by discrete episodes of loss of control of aggressive impulses that may result in serious assault or destruction of property.

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
- Personality disorder characterized by perfectionism, indecisiveness, excessive devotion to work, inability to express warm emotions, and insistence that things be done in accord with one's own preferences.

Histrionic personality disorder
- Personality disorder characterized by emotional instability, excitability, overreaction, self-dramatization, self-centeredness, and over-dependence on others.

Histrionic personality disorder unspecified
- Personality disorder characterized by emotional instability, excitability, overreaction, self-dramatization, self-centeredness, and over-dependence on others.

Chronic factitious illness with physical symptoms
- A disorder characterized by plausible presentations of physical symptoms or an acute illness that are under the individual's control, and often resulting in multiple, unnecessary hospitalizations.

Other histrionic personality disorder

Dependent personality disorder
- Personality disorder characterized by pervasive patterns of dependent, passive, and submissive behavior.
- Inadequate responses to physical, social, and emotional demands; general ineptness and instability, despite absence of actual physical or mental deficit.

Antisocial personality disorder
- personality disorder whose essential feature is a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others through aggressive, antisocial behavior, without remorse or loyalty to anyone.
- Personality disorder characterized by conflict with others, low frustration tolerance, inadequate conscience development, and rejection of authority and discipline.

Other personality disorders

Narcissistic personality disorder
- Personality disorder characterized by excessive self-love, egocentrism, grandiosity, exhibitionism, excessive needs for attention, and sensitivity to criticism.

Avoidant personality disorder
- Personality disorder characterized by excessive social discomfort, extreme sensitivity to negative perceptions of oneself, pervasive preoccupation with being criticized or rejected in social situations, and low self esteem.

Borderline personality disorder
- severe personality disorder that develops in early childhood; characterized by a lack of control of anger, intense and frequent mood changes, impulsive acts, disturbed interpersonal relationships, and life-threatening behaviors.
- Personality disorder with maladaptive patterns of behavior characterized by impulsive and unpredictable actions, mood instability, and unstable interpersonal relationships.

Passive-aggressive personality

Other personality disorders
- Personality marked by self-destructiveness or self-defeating behavior, a conscious or unconscious need to suffer, and seeking out opportunities for suffering or self-injury.

Unspecified personality disorder
- personality disorder whose essential feature is a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others through aggressive, antisocial behavior, without remorse or loyalty to anyone.
- Personality disorder characterized by conflict with others, low frustration tolerance, inadequate conscience development, and rejection of authority and discipline.
- when normal personality traits become inflexible and maladaptive, causing subjective distress or impaired social functioning, they can be considered disorders.