Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Dependent Personality
• Avoidant: also experiences strong feelings of inadequacy but avoids contact until certain of acceptance rather than active seeking of connection. • Borderline: also fears abandonment but reacts to abandonment with rage rather than urgent efforts to replace the relationship. Also unstable relationships in borderline. • Dependency and personality changes arising as a consequence of an Axis I disorder, such as mood disorders, social anxiety, panic disorder, and agoraphobia • Dependency arising as a consequence of a general medical condition • Histrionic: also strong need for reassurance with associated clinging, but behavior is flamboyant with active demands forattention rather than docile and self-effacing. • Most common comorbid Axis I conditions are major depressive and other mood disorders, anxiety disorders, including social phobia, and adjustment disorder. • Most common comorbid personality disorders are histrionic, avoidant, and borderline. Each of these disorders is characterized by dependent features. Dependent personality disorder (DPD) is distinguished by its predominantly submissive, reactive, and clinging behavior.
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