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Understanding Personality Disorders Treatment

Your personality is your specific, unique way of viewing yourself and interacting with the world around you. It derives from three main characteristics: your everyday thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviors. Once established, it usually remains relatively stable over time. However, some people develop mental health conditions that alter their personalities in dysfunctional ways. These conditions are known as personality disorders.

Left untreated, a personality disorder can drastically alter your perception of yourself and your surroundings. It can also leave you out of step with your society and environment. But with help, you can ease the effects of a personality disorder and significantly improve your day-to-day function. 

At Satori Health, we feature personality disorder treatment in the San Fernando Valley. No matter which specific disorder is affecting you, our customized treatment plans can help. We’re dedicated to supporting your return to stability and a functional daily routine.

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Understanding Personality Disorders

What Are Personality Disorders?

There are ten officially defined, diagnosable personality disorders. All of these disorders alter your personality in ways that:

  • Leave you substantially outside society’s behavioral or conduct norms
  • Make it hard for you to function or leave you in distress
  • Persist over time
  • Disrupt or change your relationships

No one knows exactly how many Americans have a personality disorder. However, roughly one out of every ten people are affected by a personality disorder. Women and girls develop these illnesses about as often as men and boys.  Warning signs of a personality disorder sometimes appear during childhood. But the first clear, diagnosable symptoms typically appear in older teenagers and young adults. Personality-based conditions tend to overlap. If you’re diagnosed with one of them, there’s a good chance that at least one more is affecting you.  

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What Are the Different Types of Personality Disorder?

All personality disorders produce their own specific effects. However, the effects of some of these conditions are similar in certain respects. For this reason, the ten disorders are divided into three groups or clusters: Cluster A, Cluster B, and Cluster C.

The three Cluster A conditions are:

  • Schizoid personality disorder
  • Paranoid personality disorder
  • Schizotypal personality disorder

Each of these illnesses produces personality changes that are best designated as odd or bizarre.

The four Cluster B conditions are:

  • Borderline personality disorder
  • Histrionic personality disorder
  • Antisocial personality disorder
  • Narcissistic personality disorder

Each of these illnesses produces changes that are best designated as unpredictable or unusually emotional, or dramatic.

The three Cluster C disorders are:

  • Dependent personality disorder
  • Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
  • Avoidant personality disorder

Each of these illnesses produces personality changes that leave with excessive levels of fear or anxiousness. 

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The different signs

What Are the Signs of a Personality Disorder?

The specific signs of a personality disorder depend on the condition affecting you. However, all of these conditions share some general signs in common. The main general indicators fall into two categories. The first of these categories centers on the difficulty of forming a coherent self-identity. This difficulty leads to issues such as:

  • A changing, unstable view of yourself
  • Inconsistency or fluctuations in your beliefs and goals
  • Similar fluctuations in your behavior or outward appearance

The second category of general signs centers around interpersonal difficulties. These difficulties may include:

  • Problems forming relationships
  • An inability to maintain relationships you’ve already formed
  • Lack of the ability to sympathize or empathize with others

There are also other general signs of personality disorders. Things you may notice in yourself or someone else include:

  • Problems recognizing the difference between self and other
  • An inflated or deflated sense of self-esteem
  • A pattern of thought and behavior that frustrates or baffles other people

If you have a personality disorder, you may be aware of these kinds of issues. However, some affected people don’t possess this kind of self-awareness. 

Want more information on the signs of a specific personality disorder? The experts at Satori Health are ready to assist you. Call us today to learn about our mental health treatment center in San Fernando Valley.

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What Causes Personality Disorders?

Not everyone develops a personality disorder for the same reasons. The single most identifiable factor is your genetic background. About half of all personality-based conditions are at least partially hereditary. 

Exposure to traumatic events during childhood may also have an influence on your risks. Specific kinds of trauma exposure that may play a role include:

  • Sexual abuse
  • Physical abuse
  • Acts of verbal abuse perpetrated by a parent

Another potential childhood factor is something called high reactivity. This term refers to an unusual sensitivity to stimuli such as:

  • Noise
  • Light
  • Touch

However, evidence for the importance of high reactivity is relatively slim. 

To learn more about the possible causes of personality disorders, consult the specialists at Satori Health.

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How to Treat Personality Disorders

All properly designed personality disorder treatment programs in Southern California and elsewhere have certain goals in common. Specifically, they aim to:

  • Help you feel less distressed and more in control in everyday life
  • Improve your understanding of how your particular condition affects you
  • Show you how to develop habits that are more in line with social norms
  • Help you change the aspects of your personality that cause you the most harm

How does a quality San Fernando Valley personality disorder treatment center meet these goals? The foundation of an effective care plan is psychotherapy. Many people make progress with help from cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). A subtype of CBT called dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is also known to help many affected people. That’s especially true if you’ve been diagnosed with a borderline personality disorder. 

A personality disorder treatment program may also include other kinds of therapy in your treatment plan. Potential options include:

  • Informative support for you and your family in the form of psychoeducation
  • Psychodynamic therapy
  • Traditional psychoanalysis

No proven medication option is designed to treat any personality disorders. However, medication may still form part of your treatment plan. When used, its purpose is relieving specific symptoms, not your condition as a whole. You may benefit in this way from options such as:

  • Antidepressants
  • Mood stabilizers
  • Anti-anxiety medications

Effective personality disorder treatment in the San Fernando Valley and elsewhere are often interdisciplinary. This means that multiple types of professionals work together to provide various aspects of your care.

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Satori Health Offers Personality Disorder Treatment in the San Fernando Valley

The impact of personality disorders ranges from mild to severe. However, these conditions cause significant life distress or loss of social function in all cases. For this reason, prompt care is crucial. Quality personality disorder treatment programs in Southern California provide this timely care.

Satori Health specializes in personality disorder treatment in the San Fernando Valley. Our expertise allows us to properly treat any personality-based illness. No matter how you’re affected, we offer an achievable way forward to a more livable, functional daily routine. To learn more about our customized treatment plans, call us today.