Narcissistic Personality Disorder

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Personality may be very among individuals. Personality that governed an individual is based on the process of development from childhood until current experience. One’s personality also being influenced by the environment for instance culture, social status and economic status. Personality also understand as a mask that we wear when we faced the outside world. The personality we show towards the world may be different from the exact personality of ours. Personality too might cause an incongruence of behaviour. Thus, individual who have difficulties in personality is defined as personality disorder. Individual with personality disorder appears to have an abnormal personalities and maladaptive patterns of behaviour. Hence, in further understanding …show more content…

Narcissistic, antisocial, borderline and histrionics personality disorders is categorizes in this cluster. Narcissistic personality is a behaviour of having a sense of being a leader, a need of esteem, and a lack of empathy (McMurran & Howard, 2009). Their behaviour is offensive to others even they are family or friends. They also behaving being self-centre and egotistic. The individual who afflicted must be felt to be perfect in their physical appearance. The American Psychiatric Associations indicates that the persons “diagnosed with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, 50%-75% are male.”(DSM-IV-TR, 2000, p. 716 as cited in Dobbert, 2007). For antisocial personality is the manners is irritability and aggressiveness, lack of remorse and irresponsibility (Coid, 1998). They cannot manage their frustration management. The third personality in this cluster is borderline. The individual with borderline personality are unstable in their self-appearances, unstable moods and odd behavior. The emotional responds are highly reactive, and the individual generally has difficulties with depression, anxiety, annoyed, and also anger (Linehan, 1993). In relationships, they having hard time to move on in their life after breakup. They are sensitive with comments and rejections. Histrionics personality behavior of the individual that always emotionally and always seek attention, dramatic and excessively emotional, and are overly concerned with appearance (McMurran & Howard, 2009). Their dependence on the attention of other people, they very sensitive to separation anxiety and become intensely emotional over the breakup of a relationship (Freeman et al,

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