Defining Features of Personality Disorders

Borderline Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Anti-social Personality Disorder all have commonalities yet are different enough to be able to distinguish between the three. To compare these disorders, all three of them consist of the inability to successfully connect with and understand others emotions. People with these disorders tend to focus on themselves and make decisions based on their own good and benefits. Rarely do people with these disorders take others into consideration making it difficult to build and maintain relationships. Another commonality that these three disorders have is the lack of remorse for others in situations where they may have caused others pain. These disorders carry a type of personality where one thinks, “they are always right” or “entitled” to certain things. It is common of someone who has one of these types of personality disorders to understand the difference between right and wrong and deep down understand that their actions may not be acceptable but overall, not care. These three disorders cause people to be aggressive and at times, reckless. Often irresponsible, their decisions are usually not well thought out resulting in impulsive behaviors. As a result of their impulsive behaviors, all three disorders tend to cause a problem when trying to build or form relationships with others. Relationships tend to be unstable and inconsistent making it difficult to really connect with a person emotionally. The cause of all three disorders seems to have some commonalities where a person’s upbringing has a lot to do with their personality disorder. Growing up in an emotionally cold or unsupportive household has been shown to cause these types of disorders while in other cases they can be inherited genetically but mainly only Antisocial and Borderline Personality disorders.
Although these personality disorders have many common traits, they are in fact distinctly different. Borderline Personality disorder