What complicates the diagnosis of personality disorders?
What will be an ideal response?
Personality disorders are often not diagnosed or may be misdiagnosed.
Personality disorders may never be diagnosed or treated due to their basic nature - personality disorders define the personality of the individual with the disorder, and it is difficult to determine when a problematic personality becomes a disordered personality. Misdiagnosis is common as the diagnostic criteria are not precise and lack objective behavioral standards. Diagnosis is vulnerable to subjective interpretation of traits and behaviors as being maladaptive or not. The criteria for the disorders is not exclusive of other diagnoses. While clinicians are likely to agree that an individual has a personality disorder, there may not be agreement as to which disorder the individual has.
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