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Paranoid Personality Disorder

Paranoid Personality Disorder. By: Christopher Bracamontes. Def. of Paranoid Personality Disorder. “It’s a psychiatric condition in which a person has a long term distrust and suspicion of others”

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Paranoid Personality Disorder

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  1. Paranoid Personality Disorder By: Christopher Bracamontes

  2. Def. of Paranoid Personality Disorder • “It’s a psychiatric condition in which a person has a long term distrust and suspicion of others” • Also people that have Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD) they mistrust and have suspicion of people for no reason

  3. Associated Features • DSM-IV-TR Criteria • When they don’t trust their partner or spouse • Lack of desire for or enjoyment of close relationships • Strong preference for solitary activities • Little or no interest in sexual experience with another person • Lack of pleasure in few, if any, activites

  4. Associated Features • DSM-IV-TR Criteria Continue…. • Lack of close friends or confidants, other than immediate relatives • Indifference to praise or criticism • Emotional coldness, detachment, or flat emotionally

  5. Associated Features • People with PPD feel that they are always in danger and look for evidence of their suspicion • People wit PPD don’t think or know that they have problem but people around them do see it • They think that people will expose their secrets

  6. Associated Features • They cant work well with others • They isolate themselves from all people • They are detach from everybody • Since people with PPD are extremely suspicious of others they always keep their guard up with everyone

  7. Etiology • Family/genes • This disorder are more common in families that have schizophrenia and delusional disorder • But mostly it starts on childhood years when physical or emotional trauma occurs • Environment • The thinking and behavior does interfere for a person wit PPD to have a stable relationship and work socially with people

  8. Prevalence • This disorder is more common for men to have • But usually it is more common when its genetic wit schizophrenia

  9. Treatment • Treatment is really hard for people with PPD because they are suspicious with everyone even doctors • But if the people do accept the help they will get therapy • But mostly they don’t because they don’t think they have a problem • But if they do get the therapy usually they stop the treatment themselves because they don’t trust the therapist

  10. Prognosis • Therapy and medications can help people with PPD only if they keep up with their treatments • But when their suspicions still occur they wont be able to function well in life for the reason that they cant trust nobody or any treatment

  11. References • Halgin, R.P., & Whitbourne, S.K. (2005). Abnormal psychological: clinical perspectives on psychological disorders. New York, NY: McGraw Hill • Myers, D.G. (2011). Myers’ psychology for ap. New York, NY: Worth Publishers • (2011). Paranoid Personality Disorder. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH00 01934/

  12. References Continue • The Cleveland Clinic Foundation. (2009). Diseases & Conditions. http://my.clevelandclinic.org/disorde rs/personality_disorders/hic_paranoi d_personality_disorder.aspx • (2011). Paranoid Personality Disorder. http://www.minddisorders.com/Ob- Ps/Paranoid-personality-disorder.html

  13. Discussion Question • How can a treatment work for a person with PPD if he/she doesn’t accept the help and he is already putting people in danger?

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