In personality disorder, features are all except
Ego dystonic
Stas in childhood
Behaviour is maladaptive
Disorder results in personal distress
Personality disorders are rigid, maladaptive and produce functional impairment or subjective distress. They have an onset in adolescence or early adulthood; is stable through time; leads to unhappiness and impairment; and manifests in atleast two of the four areas: cognition, affectivity, interpersonal function or impulse control. They are Ego Syntonic in nature. Ref: Synopsis of Psychiatry, 11e, pg 742.
Personality disorders