Personality is used to express a person's unique patterns of thought, feeling and behavior. Personality is shaped in the early childhood years and often continues without significant changes in the following years. Personality characteristics are in the way people perceive and interpret themselves, other people and events; in their emotional reactions; in their relationships with other people; It manifests itself in the way they satisfy their needs, desires and impulses.
When describing a person, we use various adjectives such as "smug", "liar", "meticulous", "friendly", "cold", "feisty". These definitions are the characteristics that make up that person's personality structure. However, in order for any type of behavior to be considered a personality structure, it must be continuous. The behavior of a person that is not generally observed and that he shows in response to a certain event is not considered a personality trait.
Personality structure affects people's relationships with other people, their harmony in society, and their self-perception. Therefore, when evaluating a person, attention is necessarily paid to his/her temperament or personality structure.
The personality characteristics of some people significantly negatively affect their relationships with other people, and their ability to perceive and interpret themselves and what is happening around them appropriately. In this case, it is possible to talk about a personality disorder. However, the boundaries of when personality traits can be considered personality disorders are extremely unclear. In order to be considered a personality disorder, the behavioral patterns or patterns of behavior that form the personality must be significantly different from the norms of the culture in which the person lives; inflexible, long-standing (at least since adolescence or young adulthood); It should negatively affect the person's relationships with other people, social and professional life.
However, whether a person's behavior pattern in daily life can be considered a personality disorder is not a very useful discussion. It seems more appropriate to try to understand what kind of personality structure the person has and how it affects his life. On the other hand, a personality structure is never found in a pure form in a person. There is always a mixture of characteristics of many personality structures. Today, ten personality disorders are defined in the American Psychiatric Association's classification system of mental illnesses: paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic, avoidant, dependent and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders.
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