In light of Amber Heard’s trial—and lawyers and psychologists throwing around terms like ‘narcissistic,’ ‘borderline,’ ‘histrionic,’ and ‘sociopathic,’ disorders, I thought it’d be pertinent to clarify what all this means. You may even hear some of these terms from others too. For starters, read my intro blog to personality disorders.
To give an overview, there are ten diagnosable personality disorders and narcissism, borderline, histrionic, and antisocial (colloquially called sociopathic) fall into something called Cluster B, or the dramatic group. Each of these are larger than life. For context, while you can have traits of different personality disorders, you can only be diagnosed with one.
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