in question. if a person has behaved normally previously. and then show behavioural abnormalities.

a casual relationship. (b) Disruption in multiple areas of life such as work, friendship, marriage, finance etc. 5. BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDERS - The long-term functioning of such persons is characterised by preserve of self-damaging impulsivity. unstable interpersonal relationships, undue and inappropriate outbursts of anger, doubts about one's personal identity, variable moods or aftective instability, intoleranca of being left alona, and chronic feelings of emptiness or boredom. 6. SCHlZOTYPICAL PERSONALITY DISORDER - Characteristics include - (a) Magical thinking (superstioness. clairvoyance telepathy. etc.) (b) Social isolation. (c) Referantial thinking in sispiciousness (d)Oddspeech -vague, digressive. overelaborate or metamorphical (e) Recurrent illusions, (f) Undue social anxiety or hypersensitivity to real or imagined critism and (g) being emotionally 'cold' 7. NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER - Grandiose sense of salt importance and preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success, power or intellectual brillance. They seek attention from others but show few warm Feelings in return These individuate tend to exploit othars for their own salfish needs and seek favours which they do not retum. 8 DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER - Such persons suffer from lack d self-confidence and passively allow others to assunme responsibillity for major areas of Iife because of their inabillty to functlon Independently Such people appear weak-willed and unduly compliant, falling in passively with the wishes of others. 9. AVOIDANT PERSONALITY DISORDER -Prominent features are - {a) Hypesensitivity to rejaction (b) Unwillingness to enter into Interpersonal relationships (c) Social withdrawal (d) Desire for affection and acceptance and (a) Low self -esteem. 10 COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER -Rigid, perfectionstic, unduly conventional. formal. sitngy, undecisive "they show excessive devotion to work to the exclusion of pleasure and the value of interpersonal relationships. 11. PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE PERSONALLY DISORDER - This term Is applied to those persons, who, when demands are made upon them for adequate performance respond with passive resistance.