Imagine you are hosting a large party. You have invited people with each of the personality disorders. Which ones will accept your invitation, and which will refuse your invitation? Why?
What will be an ideal response?
People who would attend:
- Schizotypal PD (desire social relationships but have trouble maintaining them)
- Antisocial PD (need stimulation to avoid boredom, superficially charming and social)
- Borderline PD (needs to feel needed)
- Histrionic PD (attention-seeking, distressed when not center of attention)
- Narcissistic PD (extensive need for admiration from others)
- Dependent PD (clingy behavior, would have access to many people to seek advice from)
People who wouldn't attend:
- Paranoid PD (pervasive distrust and suspicious of others)
- Schizoid PD (pervasive social detachment, lack of interest)
- Avoidant PD (extremely shy, social inhibited, hypersensitive to negative evaluations from others)
- OCPD (excessively inflexible on moral issues, controlling, wouldn't have fun time talking with those who disagree at party)
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