A novelist wants to write a book centered on a character described as suspicious and on guard all of the time. The character has difficult relationships with friends and relatives as a result of a distrustful nature, he overreacts to minor events that may
lead to aggression, and he is delusional. What advice would you give to the novelist?
a. The symptoms that you describe are rarely seen in adults in this country.
b. You have accurately described paranoid personality disorder, except that the disorder does not involve delusions.
c. Your description does not seem to meet the criteria of any of the disorders found in DSM.
d. You have captured the essence of a series of disorders that tend to be comorbid and untreatable.
Answer: b.
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