![]() ![]() ![]() This personality disorder is associated with pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others, detachment from social relationships, restricted range of emotional expression, acute discomfort with close relationships and intimacy, inappropriate or constricted affect, excessive social anxiety, and sometimes odd thinking, speech or belief system. Let’s start with the paranoid personality. Since all these categories share characteristics, I don’t want you to focus so much on the category, but on the actual general traits. I want to focus on four personality disorders that have the potential to cause a lot of pain and extreme suffering in a relationship: paranoid, borderline, narcissistic, and antisocial. These groups have such strong specific traits that it is highly likely it will impact the quality of the marriage. If any of these next few pages trigger a feeling, thought, or reaction, there may be more in there to explore. These personality disorders are difficult to diagnose, they require a trained professional, and many hours of therapeutic interaction to trace the patterns. Individuals with such intensities (either too low or too high) will have maladaptive interpersonal behaviors likely to affect relationships. Anything like that will eventually create problems. ![]() When we talk about personality disorders, we pretty much mean several of those traits consistently placed on extreme ends of the continuum. When we talk about extremes, we border on the concept of a personality disorder. This category is full of extremely strong traits, that display in most situations and most settings. I will have some steps for you at the end of this section. If you find yourself in a relationship with an individual that may fit in this group, I strongly urge you to take additional action immediately. I want to start out with the most severe situation. These are very different categories and each would require a different type of therapy intervention and recommendation.
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