Can you envision a life where you not only understand your unique self but also embrace your strengths, navigate challenges, and foster healthier relationships with the support of personalized therapy for personality disorders?

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What Causes Personality Disorders?

A person with a personality disorder displays long-term rigid patterns of behavior and thoughts that don’t adapt to a wide range of settings. No known definite cause of personality disorders exists, although researchers believe genetics and environmental factors play a huge role in developing the condition. In some studies, some malfunctioning genes might cause certain personality disorders, while another study links anxiety, fear and aggression to genetics. Other factors being explored:

  • Childhood trauma. Many people who are diagnosed with borderline or schizotypal personality disorder experienced sexual trauma or bullying during childhood.

  • Verbal abuse. Children who’ve suffered from insensitive parenting and verbal abuse during childhood are three times more likely to suffer from narcissistic personality disorder.

  • High reactivity. Sensitivity to light, texture, noise and other stimuli might also cause a very young child to develop anxious personalities during their teenage years and into adulthood. However, only 10 percent of highly reactive infants develop a certain type of phobia.

  • Peers. Strong bonds or relationships with family, relatives or friends might cause dependent personality disorder.

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Owner & Founder, Clinic Director, Board-Certified, 
Licensed Professional Counselor Mohammad Baig, LPC, NCC

Focus areas:

Antisocial personality disorder

Avoidant personality disorder

Borderline personality disorder

Dependent personality disorder

Histrionic personality disorder

Narcissistic personality disorder

Obsessive-Compulsive personality disorder

Paranoid personality disorder

Schizoid personality disorder

Schizotypal personality disorder

Cognitive behavioral therapy helps patients to recognize and alter their inaccurate perception about themselves, other people and the world around them. CBT is used to replace a person’s unhealthy thoughts with positive and healthier perceptions. Aside from cognitive and behavioral, another branch of CBT is dynamic, or an examination of a person’s early childhood to identify the possible cause of that person’s personality disorder.

Your progress in therapy for personality disorders:

  • You can identify and change dysfunctional thinking patterns by developing an understanding of your core beliefs underlying those patterns.

  • You can correct these faulty interpretations of the environment by replacing them with more accurate, rational interpretations.

  • You can have more positive and affirming experiences with your relationships.

  • You can have improved emotional and behavioral reactions that are less exaggerated and problematic.

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