Categorical distinctions remain vital for clarity, prognosis, and treatment in personality disorder diagnosis.

Trigger warning: this article contains a clinical discussion of suicide, which may be triggering to some readers. Living with bipolar disorder is challenging, and the first hurdle is getting a correct ...

Personality tests have become increasingly popular in daily life. From hiring to dating, they promise to help us understand ...

Schizoid personality disorder (SPD) is defined by detachment in personal relationships, a limited range of emotional expressions, and a solitary lifestyle. Some people with SPD may be at higher risk ...

Do you struggle to function on your own? Neediness, clinginess, and deep-seated fears of being alone may be signs of dependent personality disorder, a condition marked by over-reliance on others and a ...

For the first time since 2001, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has updated its clinical practice guideline on borderline personality disorder (BPD). The new guideline is “quite substantial ...

Mixed personality disorders are mental health conditions diagnosed when someone's symptoms don't fall neatly into one of 10 established types, or they have more than one co-occurring type. In the ...

Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) is a mental health condition that affects how a person thinks, behaves, perceives things, and relates with others. The condition causes prolonged patterns of ...

Epileptologists and psychiatrists have long observed a correlation between epilepsy and personality disorders (PDs) in their clinical practice. We conducted a comprehensive PubMed search looking for ...

Comorbidity is when a person has more than one health condition at once. Researchers investigating the comorbidity of personality disorders have found people with certain disorders may have other ...