DSM-IV CRITERIA FOR P.T.S.D.

Paranoid Personality Disorder:
1. Marked distrust of others, as indicated by at least four of the following:
A. Believes without reason that others are exploiting, harming, or trying to deceive her / him.
B. Unjustified doubts about a friends / associates loyalty or trustworthiness.
C. Believes with out reason that if she / he confides in others, this information somehow be used against her / him.
D. Finds hidden demeaning or threatening meanings in harmless remarks or events.
E. Unforgiving and bears grudges.
F. Believes with out reason that people are out to attack his / her character or reputation and is quick to react with anger.
G. Believes with out reason in the fidelity of their sexual partner.
2. Symptoms not due to another mental disorder.

Antisocial Personality Disorder:

1. Since the age of fifteen there has been a disregard for and violation of the right's of others, those right's considered normal by the local culture, as indicated by at least three of the following:
A. Repeated acts that could lead to arrest.
B. Conning for pleasure or profit, repeated lying, or the use of aliases.
C. Failure to plan ahead or being impulsive.
D. Repeated assaults on others.
E. Reckless when it comes to their or others safety.
F. Poor work behavior or failure to honor financial obligations.
G. Rationalizing the pain they inflict on others.
2. At least eighteen years in age.
3. Evidence of a Conduct Disorder, with its onset before the age of fifteen.
4. Symptoms not due to another mental disorder.

Avoidant Personality Disorder:
1. Marked social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and extremely sensitive to criticism. As indicated by at least four of the following:
A. Avoid activities that involve interpersonal contact.
B. Avoids get involved due to a fear of not being liked by others.
C. Restraint in intimate relationships due to a fear of shame or ridicule.
D. Marked preoccupation of being rejected or criticized by others.
E. Stay away from new interpersonal situations due to feelings of inadequacies.
F. Views oneself as inferior, socially inept, or personally unappealing.
G. Takes few if any personal risks in the engagement of new activities, for a fear of being embarrassed.

Borderline Personality Disorder:
1. Rapid changes in mood, intense unstable interpersonal relationships, marked impulsively, instability in affect, and instability in self-image, indicated by at least five of the following:
A. Going to about any lengths to avoid real or imagined abandonment.
B. Intense unstable interpersonal relationships characterized by changing between idealization and devaluation the relationship.
C. Lack of ones own identity. A Marked instability of self-image or the sense of self.
D. Impulsively in two or more areas that are self damaging. These may include abuse, sex, spending, eating, driving reckless, or etc.
E. Recurrent gestures, self-mutilation, suicidal behavior, or threats.
F. Instability in affect.
G. Marked feelings of emptiness.
H. Frequent displays of anger due to a difficulty in control.
I. Dissociative or paranoid.

Dependent Personality Disorder:
Excessive need to be taken care of, as indicated by at least five of the following:
A. Has a hard time in making everyday decisions with out getting reassurance and advice from others.
B. Has other assume the responsibility for the major areas of their life.
C. Cannot show disagreement with others in fear of being rejected.
D. Difficulty in doing things on their own.
E. Will do almost anything to get the support of others.
F. When along, a feeling of uncomforted or helpless in being unable to care for themselves.
G. When one caring or support relationship ends they are compelled to seek another.
H. A preoccupation and unrealistic fear of being left alone to care for themselves.

Histrionic Personality Disorder
Pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking, as indicated by at least five of the following:
A. Uncomfortable if not the center of attention.
B. Interaction with others in a inappropriate provocative or seductive manner.
C. Shallow and rapid changing of emotion.
D. Uses appearance to draw attention.
E. Speech that lacks in detail and excessively impressionistic.
F. Theatrical, self-dramatization, or out of proportion expression of emotion.
G. Easily influenced, suggestible.
H. Feels even a sociable relationship is intimate.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder:
Behavior or a fantasy of grandiosity, a lack of empathy and a need to be admired by others. As indicated by at least five of the following:
A. Grandiose sense of self-importance.
B. Fantasies of and preoccupied with beauty, brilliance, ideal love, power, or unlimited success.
C. A belief of being special and unique and can only be understood or a need to associate with people of high status.
D. A need for excessive admiration.
E. An unreasonable expectation of being treated with favor or excepting an automatic compliance to her / his wishes.
F. Will use others to achieve her / his goals.
G. Lacks empathy.
H. Believes others are envious of her / him or is envious of others.
I. Contemptuous or haughty attitudes / behaviors.

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder:
Marked inflexibility and preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental / interpersonal control, as indicated by at least four of the following:
A. Marked preoccupation with details, lists, order, organization, rules, or schedules.
B. Marked perfectionism that interferes with the completion of the task.
C. Excessive devotion to work. D. Excessive devotion and inflexible when it comes to ethics, morals, or values.
E. Cannot throw out worn-out, useless, or worthless objects, with no sentimental value.
F. Insist others work or do task exactly as they would.
G. View money as something to hoarded.
H. Stubborn and rigid.

Schizoid Personality Disorder:
1. Indifferent / detachment from social relationships and a very limited range of emotion in an interpersonal setting, as indicated by at least four of the following:
A. Wishes not to have or to enjoy close relationships, family included.
B. Prefers solitary activities and life.
C. Has little or no interest in sex, with other people.
D. Has little or no pleasure when doing activities.
E. Few if any close friends, other than first-degree relatives.
F. Indifferent to criticism or praise.
G. Displays flattened affect, emotional coldness, or detachment.
2. Symptoms not due to another disorder.

Schizotypal Personality Disorder:
1. Indifferent / detachment from social relationships, cognitive or perceptual distortions, and eccentric behavior. As indicated by at least five of the following:
A. Ideas of reference.
B. Magical thinking or odd beliefs, that not consistent with the cultures norms and influences behavior.
C. Odd perceptual experiences.
D. Odd thinking or speech.
E. Suspiciousness or paranoid.
F. Narrowed or inappropiated affect. G. Eccentric, odd, or peculiar behavior / appearance.
H. Few or no close friends or confidants. Not including first-degree relatives.
I. Excessive social anxiety.
2. Symptoms not due to another disorder.

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