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Question about personality disorders.

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Nothing so specific, no. PD diagnoses are, very generally, about hard-wired or deep rooted ways of thinking and behaving that makes it difficult for the person with that diagnosis to function in society, or, in some types of PD, manage their own life/emotions effectively.
 
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Can personality disorders include aversion to different things and people?

They can.

Anxiety disorder can have someone doing oneself in.

For example, a person desires to be independent; so the person fears being made to go into a nursing home. But also the person fears being alone!

So, the person refuses to go to a social activities care center during the day; since this might mean company and not being alone, but also it means to the person that he or she is not independent.

So, the person stays home, and starts creating problems so more and more people will stay with the person to try to help him or her. The person might mess up medications, for one example, so people will spend more time with the patient in order to get the person to take meds.

Fear of being alone has the person messing up his or her meds. The person might unplug the dispenser which loudly calls for the person to take meds.; the dispenser means independence, but being alone. And there is skipping medicines, and dropping pills on the floor to prove there must be people to help the person take meds. And on the creating of chaos goes.

This includes even how the person won't cooperate with eating the right foods, since foods are used to help the person take meds. And so a bad diet helps in fact to bring the person down and closer to institutionalization.

And so the person gets weaker and more out of sorts; but the person wants to stay independent; so he or she demands that personal caretakers do not notify the higher professionals about the patient's increasing medical issues, because the person fears being made to go into an institution.

So, the person's fear of losing independence has kept him or her from trusting the people who would help him or her to live at home. Mean-while, the person's fear of being alone is messing up care efforts so people will stay longer. But then the person is on the floor, can't stay off the floor, plus is so out of shape that he or she can't even maneuver onto a sofa > the person could do it, but that would be independent, not having people around to help with it. So, the person is frozen by anxiety, to the floor.

Yet, the person could have company in a nursing home, but roommates could make noise so the person could not sleep well. So, the person fears having company, at night . . . when the person fears being alone.

But if we are going to have independence and companionship, we need to be strong and sensible and creative enough so we can handle how others are different than we are. If we are depending on independence, we are not really independent :) but we are depending on our own selves; and this does not make good company, to have only my own self and my own way!!

"Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." (Philippians 4:6-7)

Only God is able to change us into the personality which is able to do this.
 
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Do personality disorders entail aversion to certain types of situations, events, or people?

Give some examples.
There are many different types of personality disorders. Each has different difficulties.
 
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Do personality disorders entail aversion to certain types of situations, events, or people?

Give some examples.

Some can.

There are different types of personality disorders, that require certain behavioral traits. Also some folks have a blend of different personality disorders, with one type typically being the predominant one.
 
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