
05/07/2025
How to know when someone has a personality disorder…. just 2 basic things to look for 1. Limited personality traits which means they repeat the same behaviours over and over again ultimately don’t have resourceful problem solving skills, 2. The inability to Self reflect and Self Correct which mean they lack self awareness.
PD is not a medical condition. Therefore medication doesn’t work for Personality Disorders. You can’t swallow a pill to be more flexible or a pill to gain critical thinking skills. PD is a neurotic and repetitive condition. Not a medical condition such as depression that has “Symptoms". PD doesn’t have symptoms to be treated, it is merely a lack of “traits and characteristics” that haven’t been attained. Someone with PD merely hasn’t developed and attained certain skills. Which is why problem solving Therapies work best.
Which is why 8 Selves Therapy works so well to help people gain skills, traits, resources and characteristics for a healthier more fuller toolkit for daily problem solving.
Unfortunately, when a Personality Disorder is present you can tell immediately because PD people will persist with a behaviour despite negative consequences to their choices. When someone with PD comes up against resistance to change they will immediately STOP therapy and their personal growth quickly comes to a halt. You can often tell the level of rigidity in their patterns and ways of thinking based on where in the 8 Selves Therapy they become stuck or quit Therapy. Often it’s within the first few Selves they can’t move past resistance and insist on staying stuck.
If you want to really push your development and growth to a whole other level, consider 8ST. It requires perseverance, openness, the willingness to make changes and Self Reflect. Contact me for more info. 🙂 Carla S