Features of Personality Disorder in Adulthood

Personality disorders are a complex of deeply rooted rigid and maladaptive personality traits that cause specific perceptions and attitudes towards oneself and others, decreased social adjustment and, as a rule, emotional discomfort and subjective distress. They most often occur in adolescence or even childhood, and each type of disorder has its own characteristic age of formation. From the beginning of their emergence, these maladaptive personality traits are no longer defined in time and permeate the entire period of adult life. Their manifestations are not limited to any aspect of functioning, but affect all areas of the personality - emotional-volitional, thinking, style of interpersonal behavior.