Avoidant Personality Disorder And Narcissistic Personality Disorder

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Personally I have never had nor met anyone who has a personality disorder( that I know of ) but based on what I know about them, I take pity on those who have to suffer. Even if some people don 't know what a personality disorder is, they can pretty much guess just based on its name, a disorder that affects your personality. One thing not everyone knows is that there are different types of personality disorders such as borderline, obsessive, histrionic and many many more. The two that will be discussed are Avoidant Personality Disorder, and Narcissistic Personality disorder. They both are very different yet very similar as well. Basically with Avoidant personality disorder (AVPD) you don 't like being around others, and with Narcissistic personality …show more content…

Like I mentioned earlier, there are a number of things that can bring on the disorders without the individual even knowing it, things such as bullying, depression, traumatic events, or even just family problems. According to John Grohol(2016) in his article “Personality Disorders” “These disorders aren 't typically diagnosed until an individual is a young adult, often not until their 20s or even 30s”(para 3). Even if they are not diagnosed till they are a young adult doesn 't mean that you didn 't have it years before hand. For both Narcissistic and Avoidant personality disorder there is no difference on how they are diagnosed, there is one possible way and one way only. Diagnosis of both NPD and AVPD is made by a mental and behavioral health professional using a specific set of guidelines that they call DSM-5 guidelines, there are no lab test or any form of test used to diagnose a personality disorder, just that one set of guidelines that a professional must …show more content…

Both Narcissistic personality disorder and Avoidant personality disorder are diagnosed the same way, and can both be treated by therapy. There is one key factor that I believe makes them more similar than they are different, That is that they both make an individuals life miserable, nobody wants to live with any type of disorder and they all want to get rid of their disorders and if they can’t then they find other ways to try and cope with their disorders, usually turning to drugs or alcohol, and in this way, all disorders are similar.One important thing to remember when dealing with any type of personality disorder is that you wont get better by just ignoring your illness and wishing that it goes away. Another similarity between all types of personality disorders is that in order for an individual with any personality disorder to get better at all in any way, they have to truly want to get better, otherwise they most likely won 't. So both Narcissistic personality disorder, and Avoidant personality disorder may seem different by comparison, in reality they are more alike than they are

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