personality disorder

A disease of mental health that involve long-term patterns of thoughts and behaviors that cause serious problems with relationships and work.

Stiff-Person syndrome

A movement disease that is of unknown etiology characterized by progressive rigidity.

multiple personality disorder

A dissociative disorder that involves the simultaneous display of multiple distinct identities or personalities.

narcissistic personality disorder

A personality disorder that involves an excessive preoccupation with issues of personal adequacy, power, prestige and vanity.

paranoid personality disorder

A personality disorder that is characterized by paranoia and a pervasive, long-standing suspiciousness and generalized mistrust of others.

schizotypal personality disorder

A personality disorder that involves a need for social isolation, anxiety in social situations, odd behavior and thinking, and often unconventional beliefs.

histrionic personality disorder

A personality disorder that is characterized by a pattern of excessive emotionality and attention-seeking, including an excessive need for approval and inappropriately seductive behavior, usually beginning in early adulthood.

borderline personality disorder

A personality disorder that involves a prolonged disturbance of personality function characterized by depth and variability of moods.

dependent personality disorder

A personality disorder that is characterized by a pervasive psychological dependence on other people.

antisocial personality disorder

A personality disorder that involves a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood.