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Post was by: Coral
“(1) After reading the story of Clive, I immediately thought that his symptoms were those of a personality disorder. (2) Specifically, a cluster B personality disorder. (3) Out of the cluster B personality disorders, I narrowed it down to either antisocial personality disorder or narcissistic personality disorder. (4) From these two, I chose to diagnose Clive with narcissistic personality disorder. For this disorder, Clive showed symptoms of: believing he is special and can only be understood by people of high status, has a sense of entitlement, lacks empathy, is interpersonally explosive and shows arrogant attitudes. (5) The first thing that tipped me off towards this diagnosis is the fact that he claimed there was nothing wrong with him and was only being evaluated to ease his parents’ minds. (6) He talked in a condescending manner to the psychiatrist which is typical of someone who believes they are better than the person they are speaking to. (7) He also mentioned that going to school regularly would not benefit someone as intelligent and sophisticated as he was. (8) While I was reading through Clive’s story, I thought he had schizoid personality disorder. (9) This was due to Clive not having close relationships with anyone. (10) Clive also showed emotional coldness and wasn’t interested in praises/criticisms others had to say about him. (11) For schizoid personality disorder, the person has to have for or more symptoms. (12) Clive only had three, which allowed me to narrow it down between the two cluster B personality disorders listed above. (13) Clive also had a close relationship with his ow ex-girlfriend, which pointed me away from schizoid personality disorder. (14) After reviewing Clive’s case and the symptoms, I diagnosed him with narcissistic personality disorder. (15) This is the disorder that best fit his symptoms. “
