Medication may also be prescribed. Personality Disorders There are many different personality disorders, each with its own medical name. People with these disorders usually have a hard time getting along with other people. They have a lot of difficulty understanding themselves and others, and as a result, may be irritable, demanding, hostile, fearful or manipulative. The symptoms vary from one personality disorder to another.
Personality disorders are the most difficult disorders to treat.
The people who have them, in many cases, do not seek help because they are able to live normally in some ways - keeping a job, for example. It is in the area of relationships with other people that they run into trouble. They tend to blame others rather than consider that the problem is within themselves. Treatment consists of intensive psychotherapy, sometimes supplemented with medication. They are the result of physical disease or injury to the brain.