Volume 4 Issue 12 Dec 2014
❌Personality Disorders aren’t real mental illnesses
✅Personality Disorders have been scientifically linked to observable neurological differences and considered to be a common and significant psychiatric illness.
❌Studying antisocial personality disorder coddles criminals and gives them an excuse.
✅Many people think that criminals can go away with crime applying defence of anti social personality. However, this is not an excuse in the court of law.
❌Personality disorders are untreatable.
✅Research shows that people with personality disorders like antisocial personality & borderline personality can benefit with effective treatment. Recent reports state that people with the disorder experience significant improvement with pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy & family therapy.
❌People with BPD have a flawed personality.
✅Personality disorders are caused by a combination of environmental, genetic and neuro-biological factors, not a personality flaw.
❌Personality disorders are not preventable.
✅Considering above aetiological factors, positive parenting and healthy social & emotional environment can decrease the emergence of personality deviations.
By Dr Anisha Landage, Resident, Dept of Psychiatry, MGM Medical College & Hospital, Navi Mumbai
