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Analyzing the Personality Disorder Quiz
Personality disorder quizzes afflict the internet like personality disorders affect the psyche. They are assembled packages of mind-probing questions assembled that can quickly determine what’s wrong with you in a few clicks. You might be surprised to find that you were suffering from borderline personality disorder as well as histrionic personality disorder with a small possibility antisocial personality disorder. Read more here
We tend to classify people as introverts or extroverts—introverts are the ones who prefer to stay away from the crowd and extroverts are the crowd-seekers. Sometimes introverts get jokingly labeled as “antisocial,” or this term is also casually applied to people who aren’t feeling up to an outing and want to stay at home for a change. In reality, being introverted isn’t the same as being antisocial, and it isn’t antisocial to stay inside on a Friday night every once in a while. Introverts can be very social people, but occasionally they like to withdraw from social interaction and have time to themselves.
One of the first books published on borderline personality disorder was titled I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me, which is an apt way of summarizing what borderline personality disorder (BPD) entails. People sometimes mistakenly associate unstable back-and-forth moods with bipolar disorder—borderline personality disorder fits that M.O. more accurately. Borderline personality disorder is named such because early in its conception psychologists described patients with the condition as being on the borderline between neurosis (impaired functioning) and psychosis (losing touch with reality).
Schizoid personality disorder might sound a lot like schizophrenia, but they’re actually pretty different conditions. Schizophrenia is not a personality disorder, but a mental disorder that affects the perception of reality—most people are familiar with the symptoms of hallucination due to media like A Beautiful Mind. Schizoid personality disorder, on the other hand, affects social relationships. A person with schizoid personality disorder lacks close social relationships with others and will tend to withdraw from social interaction. Read more here
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