Of all the mental disorders, those with more than one diagnosis of personality disorder, those suffering from this mental disorder are harder to treat. It takes a special skill that is needed to try to makes changes that will help those suffering from a personality disorder. Sometimes, people suffering from personality disorders, cannot see the disease.
If people suffering from a personality disorder, get off their medication, the symptoms get worse, and they are mainly more disruptive on themselves than on others. People suffering from this mental health disease will let you know how they feel about you. You will start questioning yourself.
Sometimes, people suffering from a personality disorder, love you and sometimes they hate you, all in the same breath.
They have skills that they could use in a working setting or certain areas of life. One client could write many pages about her sessions with me while adding more written information that was helpful for me to understand where she was coming from. Her writing skills were amazing. This client stated she did not take writing lessons, this was just what she learned in high school.
Very interesting how the brain trained itself to manage its environment as children. The following are some self-imaging of how people suffering from personality disorders feel.
- They have a hard time controlling their emotions
- People with a personality disorder have a hard time with gray areas, it is either black or white.
- People with this disorder, have an unstable sense of who they are.
- Destructive behavior/self-injury.
- Feeling of hating themselves.
- Feelings of paranoia, “someone is talking negatively about me.”
- Sometimes has intense anger and difficulty controlling emotional impulses.
- Emotional anger, violence, or escalating into physical fights.
- Bouts of Depression.
- Suicidal behavior.
I had a client who at the start of a weekend would say “I want to kill myself,” That was like 10 until 5:00 pm on a Friday. Every Friday. We’d have to get the person on call to stay with him. The client was lonely and did not want to be by themselves for the weekend.
You just might have someone in the family who suffers from a personality disorder or someone who “used to be a friend.” They are very hard to maintain as a friend. Have you heard of the saying “with a friend like this, you don’t need enemies”? Personality disorders people could be the reason. They act like a “goodie two shoes” and judge you, like you are in the wrong, or avoid you like you’re a plague.
Some of the personality disorder symptoms are unpredictable behavior. For example:
- People with a personality disorder will be suspicious of almost everything, letters, a look.
- People talking about them, they don’t like me.
- Because of a glance.
- Their self-image, their sense of self, will change rapidly.
- Lack of focus and sometimes about of energy.
- This disease may cause people with a personality disorder to self-medicate. Drugs and/or alcohol. (harder to treat).
- People with a personality disorder may be into harming themselves or cutting themselves, sometimes just to get someone’s attention. As in “Fatal attraction” the movie.
- Unable to sleep or sleep during the day and up at night.
- People who suffer from personality disorders, suffer many painful physical ailments, sometimes brought on by themselves, like aches and pain, fatigue, and weight gain which could cause more serious physical illnesses.
Once you can understand them, maybe you will be able to tolerate her. There are more women with personality disorders. Even though men have personality disorders too, it mainly affects women.
If people who suffer from personality disorders get treatment, taking medication will help. Once they decide to take medication the disease will help immensely. You might not recognize them once the medication is balanced depending on what medication they are taking ad how long the regimen is. I would say about 3 months is normal. Medications have to go to the brain and that takes time.
Many blessings to all those involved in these circumstances.