Stigmatization of Personality Disorders: A Qualitative Approach
Abduljawad, Jade Elayne
Abduljawad, Jade Elayne
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Personality disorders were always the most stigmatized disorders when it came to putting into the DSM-5 (The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) coined the term "psychopathic personalities" to describe personality types in modern psychiatric classification. Personality disorders are classified as a manner of thinking, feeling, and acting that differs from cultural norms produces distress or impairment in functioning and persists over time. My research is targeted to understand and highlight all aspects of personality disorders in a small sample of university students. A simply qualitative study was done in order to understand this phenomenon. 5 participants responses were chosen and compared. The results showed that more research is needed in the middle east to understand if religion is the factor that is stigmatizing personality disorders.