understanding Personality Disorders
Personality disorders are characterized by rigid, inflexible and inadequate patterns of perception, reaction and relations.
Each person has certain ways to perceive and relate to people and situations. We all have to confront stressful situations with our own individual style and this style is repeated over time. Although people generally respond to difficult situations in the same way, most people will try to find a different reaction if the first one has not worked.
People with personality disorder are more rigid and find it more difficult to adapt themselves to changing situations. They have more difficulties with their personal and social relations. In the therapeutic process these people can better understand their own rigid patterns and change them to more flexible ones, generating a new way to cope with difficult situations and improve their social relations.
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