How Can Someone with a Personality Disorder Avoid Harming Others? | Cluster B Recovery

This video answers the question: How can somebody with a Cluster B personality disorder reduce or eliminate harm they may cause to other people?
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Cluster B Personality Pathology:

Antisocial Personality Disorder
1. Repeated unlawful behaviors
2. Consistent deceitfulness
3. Impulsivity, poor planning
4. Aggressiveness, physical fights
5. Reckless disregard for safety
6. Consistent irresponsibility
7. Lack of remorse

Narcissistic Personality Disorder
1. Grandiose sense of self-importance
2. Fantasies
3. Special or unique
4. Requires excessive admiration
5. Sense of entitlement
6. Manipulative
7. Lacks empathy for others
8. Often envious
9. Arrogant attitudes or behaviors

Borderline Personality Disorder
1. frantic efforts to avoid abandonment
2. unstable relationship pattern
3. identity disturbance
4. impulsivity in two areas that are potentially self-damaging
5. suicidal behavior
6. affective instability
7. chronic feelings of emptiness
8. inappropriate or intense anger or difficulty controlling anger
9. paranoid ideation or severe dissociation

Histrionic Personality Disorder
1. is uncomfortable when not the center of attention
2. interactions with other people are characterized by inappropriate sexually seductive or provocative behavior
3. rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotions
4. using physical appearance to draw attention to yourself
5. style speech that is excessively impressionistic
6. is self-dramatizing and theatrical, exaggerated expression of emotion
7. suggestible
8. evaluates relationships as more intimate than they actually are




American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Arlington, VA: Author.