People with personality disorders are often untroubled by their illness, for they fail to see themselves as others see them. In fact, they may feel themselves to be in the best of emotional health, while others are quite distressed by their behavior. People with personality disorders have an uncanny ability to get under the skin of others. They are likely, therefore, to be rejected by those close to them. They invariably 'restate the mental health professionals who try to treat them.
Treatment is difficult and failure is common.
The complications associated with personality disorders are many. The most common are depression, suicide, violence and antisocial behavior, brief psychotic episodes, and multiple drug abuse. A. Etiology Little is known. Environmental factors Psychoanalytic theorists have focused primarily ca the significance of childhood experiences within the family. Few good large-scale studies have correlated early deprived or traumatic childhoods with later personality disorders.