1 personality disorders and substance use disorders “what’s the connection?”
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Personality Disordersand Substance Use Disorders
“What’s the connection?”
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What is a Personality Disorder?
According to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), a personality disorder exists when an individual’s “personality traits are inflexible and maladaptive and cause either significant impairment in social or occupational functioning or subjective distress.”
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What causes Personality Disorders? There are various theories, but the leading
ones hold that normal, healthy childhood development gets interrupted in some significant manner;
One type of scenario in which this occurs is that of abuse or neglect – including severe emotional, physical, or sexual abuse.
One perspective is that a personality disorder is like a “badge of courage” because it indicates that someone has survived much hurt.
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Reframing the “problem” of Personality Disorders One way to understand
personality disorders is that the person coped in the best way they knew how, in response to difficult circumstances, and at that past time (typically during childhood), it helped them to survive. (i.e., ADAPTIVE)
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Reframing the “problem” of Personality Disorders
However, those old coping mechanisms tend not to work very well in adulthood, and have become ineffective, or MALADAPTIVE.
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What are the different types of personality disorders? Cluster A
Paranoid Personality Disorder Schizoid Personality Disorder Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Cluster B Antisocial Personality Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder Histrionic Personality Disorder Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Cluster C Avoidant Personality Disorder Dependent Personality Disorder Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
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Common Characteristics of Personality Disorders
Pattern of problematic relationships
Tendency to blame difficulties on others, or on “bad luck”
A lack of personal responsibility
Impaired ability to learn from previous experience
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Personality Disorders and Addiction Pattern of
problematic relationships
In active addiction, a person’s primary relationship is with their substance of choice – all other relationships come second to that one.
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Personality Disorders and Addiction Tendency to
blame difficulties on others, or on “bad luck”
Working through the symptom of “denial,” or working from a state of “precontemplation” to an “action” stage of change is one key to recovery success
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Personality Disorders and Addiction
A lack of personal responsibility
Owning personal responsibility for actively participating in one’s own recovery is another key to recovery success (12-Step inventories & amends-making)
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Personality Disorders and Addiction
Impaired ability to learn from previous experience
“Doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result” description of addictive “insanity”
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“Cluster B” Personality Disorders
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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Antisocial Personality Disorder (3% males, 1% females)
“A pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others”
Over 30% prevalence in substance abuse treatment settings; most common with male alcoholics, “mean drunks”
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Antisocial Personality Disorder – 3 or more traits
1. Failure to conform to social norms re: lawful behavior as in repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest
2. Deceitfulness, as in repeated lying, using aliases, or conning others
3. Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead
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Antisocial Personality Disorder – 3 or more traits
4. Irritability and aggressiveness, as in repeated assaults or fighting
5. Reckless disregard for safety of self or others
6. Consistent irresponsibility, as in repeated failure to maintain employment, or to honor $ obligations
7. Lack of remorse re: mistreating others
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Borderline Personality Disorder (2%)
“a pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image”
30-60% of persons diagnosed with personality disorders end up with this diagnosis
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Borderline Personality Disorder – 5 or more traits
1. Frantic efforts to avoid abandonment
2. Pattern of unstable/intense relationships
3. Unstable self-image, sense of self
4. Impulsivity that is potentially self-harmful
5. Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, threats, or self-mutilating behavior
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Borderline Personality Disorder – 5 or more traits
6. Emotional instability, over-reactivity
7. Chronic feelings of emptiness
8. Inappropriate, intense anger or anger control problems
9. Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms
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Histrionic Personality Disorder (2-3%)
“a pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking”
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder (<1%)
“a pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration,
and lack of empathy”
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Goods News / “Bad” News
Unlike many other disorders that are chronic or ongoing, personality disorders are resolvable / “curable”
The process of resolving a personality disorder usually involves hard work over an extended period of time
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy treatment leads to changes in . . . Ways of thinking
Ways of managing emotions
Ways of relating to others
Ways of dealing with distress
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Dual Recovery domains
Thinking Emotions
Dealing with others
Dealing with discomfort
Stinkin’ thinkin’ Emotional binging
(ex. self-pity) can precede substance binging
Conflict / avoidance, resentments
Alternatives to using to manage distress
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“Cluster A” Personality Disorders
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Schizoid Personality Disorder
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
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Paranoid Personality Disorder (2.5%)
“a pattern of distrust and suspiciousness such that others’ motives are interpreted as malevolent”
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Schizoid Personality Disorder (<1%)
“a pattern of detachment from social relationships, and a restricted range of emotional expression”
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Schizotypal Personality Disorder (3%)
“a pattern of acute discomfort in close relationships, as well as cognitive or perceptual distortions, and eccentricities of behavior”
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“Cluster C” Personality Disorders
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Dependent Personality Disorder
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
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Avoidant Personality Disorder (<1%)
“a pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation”
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Dependent Personality Disorder (?%)
“a pattern of submissive and clinging behavior related to an excessive need to be taken care of”
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Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (1%)
“a pattern of preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control”