Why are personality disorders particularly difficult to diagnose?
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: A person diagnosed with a PD should have a history of inflexible, maladaptive, and distressful behavioral patterns. It is usually a challenge for clinicians to establish such a history. Personality disorders are especially difficult to differentiate from anxiety-related disorders.
Learning Objective: 3: Apply the key principles of the clinical domain to individual behavior.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Differential Diagnosis and Comorbidity
Difficulty Level: Hard
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