Saturday, July 12, 2014

Psychiatry Mnemonics: Personality Disorders

Antisocial Personality Disorder

CORRUPT

C: Conformity to law lacking
0: Obligations ignored
R: Reckless disregard for safety of self or others
R: Remorse lacking
U: Underhanded (deceitful, lies, cons others)
P: Planning insufficient (impulsive)
T: Temper (irritable and aggressive)

Avoidant Personalty Disorder

CRINGES

C: Certainty (of being liked required before willing to get involved with others)
R: Rejection (or criticism) preoccupies ones thoughts in social situations
I : Intimate relationships (restraint in intimate relationships due to fear of being ashamed)
N: New interpersonal relationships (is inhibited in)
G: Gets around occupational activity (involving significant interpersonal contact)
E Embarrassment (potential) prevents new activity or taking personal risks
S: Self viewed as unappealing inept or inferior

Borderline Personality Disorder

AM SUICIDE

A: Abandonment
M: Mood instability (marked reactivity of mood)

S: Suicidal (or self-mutilating) behavior
U: Unstable and intense relationships
I : Impulsivity (in two potentially self-damaging areas)
C: Control of anger
I : Identity disturbance
D: Dissociative (or paranoid) symptoms that are transient and stress-related
E: Emptiness (chronic feelings of)

Dependent Personality Disorder

RELIANCE


R: Reassurance required for decisions
E: Expressing disagreement difficult (due to fear of loss of support or approval)
L: Life responsibilities (needs to have these assumed by others)
I : Initiating projects difficult (due to lack of self-confidence)
A: Alone (feels helpless and discomfort when alone)
N: Nurturance (goes to excessive lengths to obtain nurturance and support)
C: Companionship (another relationship) sought urgently when close relationship ends
E: Exaggerated fears of being left to care for self

Histrionic Personality Disorder

PRAISE ME


P: Provocative (or sexually seductive) behavior
R: Relationships (considered more intimate than they are)
A: Attention (uncomfortable when not the center of attention)
I: Influenced easily
S: Style of speech (impressionistic, lacks detail)
E: Emotions (rapidly shifting and shallow)

M: Made up (physical appearance used to draw attention to self)
E: Emotions exaggerated (theatrical)

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

SPECIAL

S: Special (believes he or she is special and unique)
P: Preoccupied with fantasies (of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love)
E: Entitlement
C: Conceited (grandiose sense of self-importance)
I : Interpersonal exploitation
A: Arrogant (haughty)
L: Lacks empathy

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

LAW FIRMS

L: Loses point of activity (due to preoccupation with detail)
A: Ability to complete tasks (compromised by perfectionism)
W: Worthless objects (unable to discard)

F: Friendships (and leisure activities) excluded (due to a preoccupation with work)
I: Inflexible, scrupulous, overconscientious (on ethics, values, or morality, not accounted for by religion or culture)
R: Reluctant to delegate (unless others submit to exact guidelines)
M: Miserly (toward self and others)
S: Stubbornness (and rigidity)

Paranoid Personality Disorder

SUSPECT

S: Spouse fidelity suspected
U: Unforgiving (bears grudges)
S: Suspicious of others
P: Perceives attacks (and reacts quickly)
E: Enemy of friend? (suspects associates, friends)
C: Confiding in others feared
T: Threats perceived in benign events

Schizoid Personality Disorder

DISTANT

D: Detached (or flattened) affect
I : Indifferent to criticism and praise
S: Sexual experiences of little interest
T: Tasks (activities) done solitarily
A: Absence of close friends
N: Neither desires nor enjoys close relations
T: Takes pleasure in few activities

Schizoid, Schizotypal, Schizophreniform

schizOID = avOIDs

schizoTYPAL = not your TYpical PAL (weirdo)

schizophreniFORM = schizophrenia FORMing (shizophrenia after 6 months)

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

ME PECULIAR


M: Magical thinking or odd beliefs
E: Experiences unusual perceptions

P: Paranoid ideation
E: Eccentric behavior or appearance
C: Constricted (or inappropriate) affect
U: Unusual (odd) thinking and speech
L: Lacks close friends
I : Ideas of reference
A: Anxiety in social situations
R: Rule out psychotic disorders and pervasive developmental disorder

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