Personality Disorders Case Study

In a person’s life, they may encounter and be face with many challenging circumstances or situations that may deeply affect them. It may make a person feel like they are a failure or even cause heartbreak of some kind. These situations may cause a person who once was so outgoing and happy to become detach from the outside world and avoid interaction with people and relationships. A new study has shown that about 31 million Americans has a personality disorder (Davis, 2017). Personality disorders is a type of mental disorder that makes individuals suffering from this to exhibit persistent unsuitable and abnormal behaviors, thinking, and at times they have trouble perceiving information and situations in a healthy way (Butcher, Hooley,

These clusters are known as Cluster A personality disorders, Cluster B personality disorders, and Cluster C personality disorders. Within each cluster there are certain symptoms and traits to identify the person and what personality disorder they may have. Looking at Cluster A personality disorder will have issues relating to other people. The disorder that falls under this cluster is paranoid personality disorder, schizoid or schizotypal personality disorder. With Cluster B personality disorder will have an erratic and at time volatile personality. The personality disorders that fall under this cluster is antisocial, borderline, and narcissistic personality disorder. Finally, the last group is Cluster C will have an antisocial and withdrawn personality. The disorders that fall under this group are avoidant personality disorder, and even obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (Personality Disorder,

Some factors that are explored in studies involves the genetics in a person, how parents treat their children, influences peers have and the situations that a person may experience throughout their childhood and adult life. There is a possible connection between the feelings of anxiety, aggression and fear with a genetic makeup in a person’s body (Huff, 2004). Research has even shown that if an individual was abuse, whether physical or verbally they are at risk for developing a personality disorder as well (Huff, 2004). Another interesting study conducted by Robert Krueger, PhD, exploring the influences that can contribute to the development of a personality disorder, looks at studying personality traits within identical twins who did not grow up together. In the study, it appeared that genetics contributed more to a person personality trait then the environment they were in. Krueger opinion was that “The predominant reason normal and abnormal personality are linked to each other is because they are linked to the same underlying genetic mechanisms” (Huff,