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Originally Posted by kim_johnson
Hey. Personality disorders are coded as Axis Two rather than Axis One conditions. Axis One is for mental disorders like schizophrenia, bipolar, depression etc and Axis One disorders are thought to be more episodic in form and more organic. Axis Two disorders are thought to be more pervasive (only other thing on Axis Two is mental retardation) and non-episodic.
It isn't meant to imply anything about ones character or even ones personality (in the ordinary everyday understanding of personality). Just meant to capture the pervasive non-episodic nature of the disturbance.[snipped]
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Then why on earth do they use the word "personality"? That was the OP's question, as I understood it. (I'm not trying to come down on you personally it's just that so much of psychological jargon seems so senseless [but their real-world repercussions are all too real].)
Something like a "chronic adjustment disorder", for example, would make more sense to me in indicating something's pervasive quality, rather than "personality".