personality disorder

Noun

Meaning

inflexible and maladaptive patterns of behavior

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I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder. Darrell Hammond

My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession. Joaquin Phoenix

You take after your dad, a high-functioning sociopath with an incurable organic personality disorder. It's one of the special-sauce variety, the kind with a known genetic cause. Your uncle Albert was something different, and worse: He was a man of faith. Charles Stross

The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a personality disorder you can do as a job. Jimmy Carr

The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the better the book, the nearer to the padded cell you are. David Mitchell (author)

Bravery, who has autism and a personality disorder, was a 'looked after child' under the care of Hammersmith and Fulham Council at the time of the incident, after which he told horrified onlookers social services were to blame for the atrocity. Source: Internet

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