Personality disorder is a class of mental disorders characterized by a deeply ingrained and maladaptive pattern of behaviour causing long-term difficulties in personal relationships or in functioning in society. A person with a personality disorder has an unhealthy pattern of thinking, feeling and doing often deviating markedly from the accepted societal expectations and norms. Those diagnosed with a personality disorder may experience difficulties in cognition, emotiveness, interpersonal functioning, or impulse control. According to Sigmund Freud, this group of people is relatively unhealthy in their mental and psychological disposition.
Personality disorder is caused by a combination of genes inherited from the family tree of our ancestors and our painful experiences that are depressed into our unconscious mind leaving psychological scars. Left untreated it can cause significant distress and serious problems and impairment of functioning in personal, occupational and social situations. Personality disorder is often marked by a persistent and rigid pattern of distorted thoughts and behaviors that deviates from the social norms and expectations particularly when relating to others.
Individual with personal disorder often find difficulties in controlling one’s thinking processes, feelings and desires causing interpersonal disruptions in human relationship.
KYKO profiler attempts to classify personality disorders by reorganizing the symptoms of personality disorders classified by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders under its five dimensional model of personality profile. They are as follow:
Self-Actualization Personality Disorder
High Self-Actualizing Personality Disorder
High Self-Actualizing/Relatively Normal Personality is characterized by an extremely high need for achievement, growth, and fulfillment and to find meanings in life to a stage of psychologically impaired resulting in damaging one’s health and well-being.
Below is a list of characteristics of extremely high self-actualizing disorders:
- Workaholic – excessive devotion to work to a stage that is detrimental to one’s wellbeing.
- Over-conscientiousness – obsess with working long, hard hours to the extent of damaging one’s health.
- Unable to relax and take a break when stressed.
- Over-stretching oneself until one experiences and suffers from anxiety disorders and stress-related medical illnesses.
- Preoccupied with work often overloading oneself to an extent of incapability in producing tangible results.
Low Self-Actualizing Personality Disorder
Low Self-Actualizing/Neurotic Personality is characterized by an extremely low need for achievement, growth, and fulfilment and to find meanings in life to the extent of psychologically and mentally impaired resulting in the manifestation of maladaptive behaviors.
Below is a list of characteristics of extremely low self-actualizing disorders:
- Show no remorse or repentance for destructive behavior
- Irresponsible and unreliable
- Does not feel guilty, shameful or regret for stealing from others
- Possess a distorted and pessimistic outlook
- Lacking remorse in hurting or ill-treating others
- Feeling frustrated and depressed
- Chronically unhappy
- No regret for doing bad things
- Idling, wasting time loaf around
- Show no repentance for being cruel and vicious
- Disruptive patterns of thought, behavior, and functioning
- Untrustworthy and unreliable – never walk one’s talk
- Prone to experience tensions and anxieties
- Avoid taking responsibilities and commitment
- See the world with crooked lenses
- Pessimistic and negative views of things in the environment
- Believe in black magic
- Talking to spirits
- See everything as bad
- Assume everybody is evil and wicked
- Believe in supernatural power
- Being possessed
- Deeply sadden
- Extremely dejected
- Clairvoyant – believe in medium and psychic telepathy
Egocentric Personality Disorder
High Egocentric Personality Disorder
High Egocentric/ Personality Disorder is characterized by an extremely high need for power, image, status, recognition, take charge and to control and shape the environment to the extent of being psychologically impaired resulting in the manifestation of neurotic and psychotic behavior.
Below is a list of characteristics of high egocentric personality disorders:
- Aggressive, hostile and combative in response to disappointments, disgrace and rejections.
- Always believe one is right
- Arrogant and conceited by flattery and admiration.
- Attack others physically when provoked
- Chasing after position, power and status without due concern about others’ interests
- Coercing others to accept one’s ideas.
- Depicts a pattern of cruel, demeaning, violent threatening and disruptive behavior.
- Depicts an exaggerated sense of self-importance – wants entitlement and special treatment.
- Engage in physical attacks and assaults.
- Enjoys punishing people under one’s control cruelly and harshly.
- Focus on talking about oneself
- Headstrong in sticking to one’s opinions
- Insensitive and self-seeking
- Intimidating, coercing, hurting, and humiliating others.
- Likes to brag show off on one’s achievements, abilities and success.
- Likes to humiliate, demean and belittle people in public
- Overly concern and obsessive in taking charge and having everything done one’s own way.
- Pay a deaf ear to others’ suggestions
- Put self above others
- Sadistic and abusive
- Self-centered, feels one is great, special and unique
- Stubborn and obstinate
- Suffering from superiority complex
- Take pleasure in seeing others’ sufferings
- Uses physical cruelty or violence for the purpose of establishing dominance in a relationship.
Low Egocentric Personality Disorder
Low Egocentric/Submissive Personality is characterized by an extremely low need for power, image, status, recognition, take charge and to control and shape the environment to the extent of being psychologically impaired resulting in being helpless and too dependent on others.
Below is a list of characteristics of low egocentric personality disorders:
- Anxious and tense when interacting with very important people
- Avoid taking more responsibility due to fear of failure
- Avoiding disagreements with others at all cost
- Can’t say no to others to the point of doing others’ work
- Desperate and in despair
- Easily give in to others
- Extremely shy and timid
- Feeling of helplessness
- Feeling of hopelessness when confronted with personal and work related problems.
- Find difficulty in making everyday decisions– needs others’ assurance, advice and input
- Find no meanings in life
- Has a feeling of being worthlessness
- Has difficulty initiating projects or doing things alone due to lack of self-confidence
- Lack of confidence leading to fear of facing challenges.
- Possess a feeling that one is inferior and inadequate
- See self as a failure
- See self as good for nothing
- Submission to others’ demands and threats
- Overly reserved and modest
- Tendency to give up completely in facing life
Socio-centric Personality Disorder
Socio-centric Personality Disorder
High Socio-centric/Sociable Personality Disorder is characterized by an extremely high need for love, care, comradeship, attachment and social interaction to the extent of being psychologically impaired resulting in excessive demand for love and care, being hypersensitive and a phobia of being abandoned.
Below is a list of characteristics of High Sociocentric Personality Disorders
- Dramatize emotional displays or outbursts to seek attention
- Extreme devastation when close relationships end
- Fear of being discarded from the group members
- Fear of being rejected
- Feelings of helplessness when left alone.
- Get hurt easily
- Hypersensitivity to the judgment of others.
- Marked by excessive emotionality.
- Needs companionship all the time
- Needs social acceptance
- Obsessive love disorder – Vulnerable to go into deep depression
- Overly trying to please others
- Oversensitive under criticism
- Phobia of being discarded and replaced
- Possesses an excessive need to be loved and taken care of
- Preoccupied with extreme form of love that transcends into an obsession over time
- Preoccupied with fears of being abandoned.
- Restrain standing up for one’s rights for fear of losing a relationship
- Suicidal tendency when a love relationship does not work out
- Tendency to cry like a baby
Low Socio-centric Personality Disorder
Low Socio-centric Personality Disorder is characterized by an extremely low need for love, care, comradeship, attachment and social interaction to the extent of being psychologically impaired resulting in self-isolation, cold and being detached in relationship with others.
Below is a list of characteristics of Low Sociocentric Personality Disorders
- Avoid parties and crowded places
- Avoid romantic and sexual relationships
- Avoid social interaction for fear of being embarrassed
- Avoid social relationships for fear of being negatively judged
- Avoid touching and being touched
- Cold and uninterested in social interaction
- Cold, apathetic and insensitive to feelings
- Detachment from other people.
- Difficult in expressing feelings of pleasures and pains
- Fear of being evaluated negatively in a social setting
- Fear of intimate and close relationship
- Fear physical and emotional closeness
- Feeling emotionally numb
- Indifference to others’ interests
- Isolated life-style without overt longing for others
- Phobia of falling in love
- Rejects relationship and situations that gives one’s pleasure
- Show no interest in making friends
- Shun away from a group for fear of being watched
- Shun away from social activities and functions
- Stay away from interpersonal reactions and relationships
- Tends to be anxious and irrational in a social situation
- Unconcern about others’ affairs
- Unemotional, Inability to feel much of anything
- Withdrawn and aloof
Security Personality Disorder
High Security Personality Disorder
High Security Personality Disorder is characterized by an extremely high need, want or desire for safety, order, stability, systems, structure, protection and a life free from stormy seas to the extent of being psychologically impaired resulting in imaginary worries and fear of being dislocated in a changing environment.
Below is a list of characteristics of High Security Personality Disorders
- Anxious for fear of things that may or may not happen
- Brooding over small mistakes or errors
- Clinging on to others for help
- Excessive worrying about your future
- Goes all out to obtain nurturance and support from other
- Hoard and keep worthless objects even though they have no more value
- Is unrealistically preoccupied with fears of being left to take care of himself or herself
- Need others to take care of one’s life
- Often live in fear due to imagined worries
- Often nag and fuss over small or trivial matters
- Panic stricken and dislocated with sudden change in the environment
- Preoccupied with the small details
- Reluctant to delegate responsibility or tasks for fear that others will screw them up
- Self-regulate and scheduling one’s daily activities to the extent of being inflexible or rigid
- Shows perfectionism that often interferes with completion of a task
- Striving for perfectionism in achieving unrealistic goals
- Takes extremely low risk in engaging something new
- Tend to worry inappropriately about future events
- Worry unnecessarily over things that have not happened
- Worrying over imagination that something bad is going to happen
Low Security Personality Disorders
Low Security/Adventurous Personality Disorders is characterized by an extremely low need, want or desire for safety, order, stability, systems, structure, protection and a life free from stormy seas to the extent of being psychologically impaired resulting in taking high risk and putting oneself in danger.
Below is a list of characteristics of Low Security Personality Disorders
- Act immediately on impulse
- Act recklessly without thinking about the consequences
- Act spontaneously
- Addicted to sex
- Alcohol abuse
- Chain smoking
- Do first and think later
- Do things without due consideration or thought as to the consequences
- Doing risky or hurtful things to yourself or others
- Drug abuse
- Engages in sensational, thrilling and hazardous activities
- Enjoys doing dangerous work involving high risk
- Goes for dangerous activities without due concern over the safety of self and others
- Ignoring or not thinking about the potential results of risky activities
- Immediate reaction to a situation without much thought
- Looks for sensational and breathtaking adventures
- Pathological gambling
- Reckless and tend to try new experiences even though they are self-damaging
- Seek risky situation just for a thrill
- Seeks work with precarious working conditions
Complexity Personality Disorder
High Complexity Personality Disorder
High Complexity Personality Disorder is characterized by an extremely high need for information, adapt, change, influence and use others for survival, growth and to satisfy dominant needs to the extent of the ends justify the means.
Below is a list of characteristics of High Complexity Personality Disorder
- Able to deposit the good feelings into the emotional bank of important people to make decision in one’s favor
- Able to size people up and take advantage of them
- Acts dishonestly to satisfy his or her personal motives
- Blames others for one’s mistakes and shortcomings
- Chameleon-like – able to change and adapt to people and situation for survival and growth
- Cunning and sly
- Exploiting other people for personal gain and pleasure
- Good actor and pretender with a bag of tricks
- Good at talking one’s way out of anything
- Good at tricking people to achieve his or her personal goals
- Good at using others to achieve hidden agendas
- Manipulate others by pretending to be pathetic and sick
- Obsessed in doing anything to get something of value
- Possess a natural talent to influence, use and abuse others to achieve one’s personal goals or ends
- Pretend to behave in such a manner to gain sympathy from others
- Put up a mask to project one’s false image
- Read between the lines for hidden motives when interacting with others
- Skillful at lying, cheating and conning others
- Skillful in giving false hopes to cheat others
- Skillful in putting up a facade
Low Complexity Personality Disorder
Low Complexity/Static Personality is characterized by an extremely low need for information, adapt, change, influence and use others for survival, growth and to satisfy dominant needs to the extent of being vulnerable, victimized, used and abused by others.
Below is a list of Low Complexity/Static Personality Disorder
- Act pitifully in an exaggerated manner
- Appear miserable and pitiful
- Believe and trust friends blindly
- Can be easily misled
- Easily conned or cheated
- Easily fall as a victim of abuse
- Easily fall victim to substance abuse
- Evoking self-pity to get sympathy from others
- Feel extremely sorry for one’s failure
- Gullible – tend to trust others inappropriately
- Have the tendency to get blame and punished for others’ mistakes
- In a sorrowful and pathetic state
- Easily persuaded to do the wrong things
- Easily used and abused by others
- Likely to be used by others as a representative to fight against the authority
- Naive and over-trusting
- Susceptible to be influenced by sweet talks
- Susceptible to negative Influence of other people
- Tends to submit to cruelty and physical force
- Trust others without question