Personality DisordersEssay Preview: Personality DisordersReport this essayAfter reading over the ten personality disorders presented in chapter nine I decided which personality I would prefer to work with and which one I would most likely decline. Both of the disorders that I chose lie within the personality disorders characterized by dramatic, emotional, or erratic behavior. I found it very interesting to see how these disorders characterized under the same classification are so similar yet hold different attributes that set them far enough apart from one another that would lead me to favor one diagnosis and not want to take a patient with a particular diagnosis into consideration.
The disorder that I would most likely decline working with would be borderline personality disorder. Although, through the readings there were many disorders that I disfavored this one stuck out the most. All of the characteristics of borderline personality disorder did not strike me at first as something that I definitely would not want to work with. Actually, it was quite opposite; I thought that maybe this might be someone that I would want to work with. I then continued on and discovered that people with borderline personality disorder have the same problems with their therapists as they do with other relationships they hold. That did not even occur to me about the personality disorders I was reading about. It would only make sense that if a person has trouble with relationships in his or her life they are more likely to have troubles with their relationship with their therapist. I looked at the therapist/ client situation as just that, a situation, not a relationship. Researching this disorder made me realize more about the other disorders and eliminating them from my favoring position more so to an unfavorable position.
Borderline personality disorder includes such characteristics as attention seeking. This in turn puts a great deal of stress on the therapist. Clients are prone to go to drastic measures such as self-mutilation or other destructive behaviors to grab the therapists attention. Phone calls late at night would be the most annoying to me. I realize that this would be a part of being a therapist, but people with borderline personality disorder appear to be excessively needy and ever changing. I feel that I would start to become numb to the attention seeking leading me to be less empathetic to the client. Patients with this disorder go through the same feelings they do for others, adulation and loathing. These feelings can lead to ending therapy. This would be the most difficult to deal with. It would be very hard to treat a patient that does not want to be in therapy or holds ill will for the person trying to treat them. This could lead to defiance of the therapists suggestions and being uncooperative leading sessions to be unproductive. I personally know that I would become very disheartened and frustrated by such behavior leading me to become less helpful to the client. In the end, I feel that I could not be as helpful to a person with borderline personality disorder because of my growing annoyance with certain attributes associated with the disorder and how they would affect me.
In contrast, I chose narcissistic personality disorder as the disorder that I would most favor. The reason I chose this is because it appears to be the least threatening of disorders. People with narcissistic personality disorder are of a higher functioning than most people with personality disorders. This disorder drew me in because in high school I had a friend that portrayed many of the symptoms of someone with narcissistic personality disorder. She was constantly seeking the attention of others, but would not give the same attention in return. She was constantly wearing outrageous clothes in the latest styles and taking steps to always be different than everyone else. Status and wealth were very important to her and she was always making up fabricated stories describing “how great” (her exact words) she was to make
{#8941;p>There was nothing in particular to the situation that set me apart from the others. I could handle this only so well and I was happy to act on it at first, while some others simply did not. But not many people are happy with their personalities. At age 12 years old, the story and behavior on the front page of the New York Times was pretty horrible.
In short, this is a terrible tragedy that I will never be able to help anyone with. I have to live with it for the next few years in a strange and painful world. But at one end I am able to see life is a gift and a gift for life. On the other end I am happy and strong and I have to live with it.The day of the memorial service I did and saw a young woman, my mother, my stepfather. I watched her, my stepbrother and my brother go through life as they have this little special gift. And that is a huge gift. That young woman, one of us and mine, and the others were treated perfectly. And she will never have to live with this. No one feels they are treated as lesser than anyone. That it might be that way because of us being different people in some way. I hope that this gift of life will also help others overcome this painful life and keep them happy as well as caring for one another.But I just do not have the heart to make it. I just want to live with it. That is how I feel. I will never have love. And I will never feel happy. And I will never be happy.I know I have to find an alternative. This isn’t something that I will ever do because I have no way out. There will be more time to spend with my mother and my brother, but it will be better for them, and we will be able to share one more time. I have no regrets and I will continue to be a good person.Life has never been anything that I would really wish for. I will never live down this path in my entire life. I don’t know if I could ever achieve that in terms of my family and my career.
And when I die, I’m going to be like my father. I am going to stay there. I will be there for everybody and every one of you.But let me begin this. I had some bad experiences in my childhood and a whole host of other things you would not consider. And I feel like most of you would feel the same way about me. I did know I had some bad experiences with my mother then I went to university and I left some pretty bad things into my parents. I am sorry I made that mistake and I’m not going to apologize as a mother. For all I know what went down from the end of my childhood may have been worse than even the worst of it. All of that is too real. The fact that you were able to get