People with personality disorders often have trouble with difficult thoughts, resulting in a cascade of negative emotions. Here's what they can do to regain control, writes swhitbo
The standard measures of anxiety andthe authors used included self-ratings on items such as feeling “dizzy and lightheaded” and “I am so sad or unhappy that I can’t stand it” .
As the authors predicted, the PD group scored higher on rumination and worry, as well as anxiety and depression than did the non-PD group. Furthermore, the rumination scores were correlated with the severity of PD symptoms, meaning that the greater number of symptoms an individual had, the higher that person’s rumination scores. Looking further at the role of metacognition, Spada et al.
It's important to keep in mind that, as is true for other studies in this field, there was no follow-up component to the design so that it wasn't possible to tease out cause and effect. However, regardless of what starts the emotional cascade, its impact is to lead people with PD’s to suffer from a continuous and escalating cycle of distress as they focus on their negative thoughts which they believe they cannot control.
Turn now to your ability to carry out your daily activities, particularly those involving planning and concentration.
If you know someone with a personality disorder, or if you yourself have been diagnosed with one, the Spada et al. results can have an even more direct benefit for your life. The authors note that there is a specific type of
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