Personality is something that either a person is born with or adapts to the changing environment around him. It is a unique trait and very few people have similarities to them. It identifies a person’s lifestyle, his habits, and the way he is brought up.
Some people are talkative, some speak less, some of them are adventurous, some like to cook and there are many other feathers that one can paint to describe another person.
Every day you meet hundreds of people, but your mind tends to remember only those personalities that have left a mark on your mind. It’s been said that you can cunningly steal someone’s mind but personality stays forever.
‘Make your Personality that no one is worth to be compared’.
Personality is further categorized into 5 types:
- Openness
- Conscientiousness
- Extraversion
- Agreeableness
- Neuroticism
Openness
Openness is a feeling of welcoming different and unexpected things in life. From your life experiences you either be happy or disappointed. You usually become highly open or you tend to become low profile.
Highly Open headed people love doing adventure and taking up different experiences in life. They don’t believe in a Happy Ending rather they believe that the journey is going to be more happening with a lot of ups and downs. Like people who love to do Sky Diving, Hilltop climbing, Scuba diving, etc.
On the other hand, Low headed openness deals with a lot of fear, scare, worry, and no acceptance of learning something new. These people don’t like to get out of their comfort zone and like to remain in their own happy world.
They are not competitive as they never explore new opportunities around. They are happy in whatever they get and never complain about anything.
Conscientiousness
People who believe everything should be planned, organized, and executed in their own desired way they have High Conscientiousness. They feel a sense of responsibility in taking up any challenge that is around them.
While on the other hand, people with Low Conscientiousness are the most carefree people who don’t even bother about the smallest of things. They are least bothered about being punctual, they don’t have a process to be followed, and they are termed as ‘Free Wheelers‘.
‘Always be yourself, but let your Personality create an impact’.
Extraversion
People who share or talk more they are basically known as Extrovert while those who are reserved are said to be introverts. Extroverts are joyful, smiling, chirpy and loveable by everyone. They have a personality of speaking out everything that comes to their mind. They feel at ease in expressing their thoughts and views.
Introverts like to remain in their closed circle. They don’t speak much but have plenty of thoughts flooding into their head. They feel very difficult to express themselves In front of everyone.
They love to stay in solitude and avoid making new friends. But all these qualities make an introvert a charming mystery man that everyone wants to explore.
‘An Extrovert is more intelligent at echoing his thoughts in the minds of others
Agreeableness
Agreeableness is consent that two people have in a discussion. Agreeable people want peace and they believe that the decision made is for their betterment of them while those who have opinions about everything are those who are not happy with another person’s decision they basically want to take control over every situation.
A person who is not warm and kind and doesn’t believe in caring for others is the most disagreeable individual in this society.
‘One who agrees loves empathy & peace’
Neuroticism
Neuro means brain ticism’criticism’.People who always worry and are stressed about everything are said to be highly neurotic in life. They are very emotional about their loved ones. And they also feel empathy about anything that happens wrong around them.
They get into deep distress even when some of their favorite actors/politicians. Also, they cannot handle criticism about them
People that are mentally and emotionally stable are low neurotic. They like to stay low profile and believe in solving their life problems rather than worrying about the world.
‘Personality Disorder’ is when all the above 5 elements of emotional stability are misbalanced in human life. At such times it is very important to figure out our Personality traits so that they can be rectified on the root level.
People who agree that some abnormality is happening with them mentally and they accept that they need medical help are known as ‘Ego Syntonic’.
While who deny that they are suffering from mental illness often try to be vocal about it. They feel embarrassed or take pride in accepting the fact, known as ‘Ego Dystonic’
Personality Disorder is further categorized into 3 Cluster levels:
- Cluster A
- Paranoid
- Schizoid
- Schizotypal
2. Cluster B
- Histrionic
- Anti-Social
- Narcissistic
- Borderline
3. Cluster C
- Avoidant
- Dependant
- OCD
Cluster A
Paranoid
Paranoid disorder is also known as ‘Social Phobia’. They are very sensitive and highly emotional individuals. They have a fear of socializing as they treat every individual suspect.
They cannot trust anyone so they avoid socializing with the entire world. They can be treated by Psychotherapy and some anti-psychotics.
Schizoid
People who have developed this disorder are usually very disturbed, fearless, and emotionally unavailable. They basically daydreamers who are happy in their own goody world. They are non-sensitive and do not feel pain for others.
They have their own version of the fantasy world created in their minds. They love being protected and sheltered in solitude. They are also socially detached people who have lost interest in everything.
They are also very secretive and have a lack of interest in Sexual interaction because they don’t like humans around much. It can be treated well with psychotherapy and medicines like anti-Depressants and Anti-Psychotics
Schizotypal
It is a personality disorder that says about a person who believes more in magic is superstitious. These people are also socially unavailable and are in their own world. They remain in a closed shell as too much of the human crowd can worsen their case like hallucinations, illusions, creating their own situations, and seeing things with their own perception.
The only way to get this treated is by visiting mental health care centers, and by giving medicines like anti-depressants, and anti-psychotics.
Cluster B
Histrionic
In this disorder a person becomes highly dramatic and fully loaded with emotions. He exaggerates about a simple instance too because of his attention-seeking attitude.
People with this disorder love to create their own version of stories so as to get the limelight when everyone is around.
If not given the attention they tend to become suicidal at times. They can go to any extent to be in the spotlight of every conversation.
Anti-Social
People who avoid meeting friends and other acquaintances are termed to be Anti-Social. That can be due to various reasons: fear of being judged for being different, past experiences, fear of expressing thoughts, and many more.
There is just one solution to it, meeting and interacting with more and more people and engaging to build lovely memories.
Narcissistic
People with high Ego and Self-esteem are supposed to be suffering from Narcissism. They feel they are the Almighty who has come to this world to be praised like God.
They have a feeling of Grandiosity and feel like the whole world is supposed to follow his dictatorship. This disorder makes you preoccupied with uneventful series of successes that do not exist at all. Hitler was the best example of ‘Narcissiscism’ who wanted to control Germany by his own will.
It can be treated by giving Anti-Depressants from medical practitioners.
Borderline
A borderline personality disorder is someone who has extremities to his emotion. They can either be too good or excessively abusive. They judge people too quickly ‘good or bad‘ are only terms that exist for them . There is no middle way for them.
They have suicidal thoughts at times and can cause harm to themselves to prove their point. It has to be dealt with very patiently otherwise only Health care centers can treat them.
Cluster C
Avoidant
People who are prey to anti-social usually fall into this category. These people are avoided by friends, family, and relatives either for their looks, disability, success, etc.
It is very difficult for them to share their feelings with anyone because they are always driven by rejection.
This can also happen in the workplace when a big group tries to avoid a particular person by bullying him and treating him as inferior.
Dependant
An individual who is afraid to go out alone without a trusted companion is a dependent person. He feels unsecured to talk with anyone other than his friend. So he eventually avoids going out if his companion is not there around.
This is mostly observed in school kids who feel secure holding only their mother’s or father’s hand while going to school.
OCD
It stands for Obsessive-compulsive disorder wherein the person keeps on doing repetitive actions many times. He feels that he has not done the work properly, so keeps on checking on it from time to time.
Like after having dinner if a person is washing their hands 5-6 times and repeating it over and over again when OCD sets in. It is a basic stage of depression if not treated properly.
Especially in Covid times, many people had developed OCD of sanitizing their hands every minute after touching any surface.
