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Personality disorders involve inflexible and maladaptive responses to stress.
By contrast, neurotic persons' problems are confined to discrete aspects of their byes, while other aspects remain 3. Neurotic persons are more likely to locate the source of 4. Personality disorders do not involve psychosis. Brief psychotic episodes occur, but florid lapses in reality testing are the exception rather than the rule. Most people with personality disorders are in touch with reality most of the 5.