How do you assess personality disorders for dangerousness?

Assessments need to done by professionals related to danger to oneself or to others.

Among the 10 conditions that are considered personality disorders, some have very little in common. Doctors typically group the personality disorders that have shared characteristics into one of three clusters:

Cluster A includes personality disorders marked by odd, eccentric behavior, including paranoid, schizoid and schizotypal personality disorders.

Cluster B personality disorders are those defined by dramatic, emotional behavior, including histrionic, narcissistic, antisocial and borderline personality disorders.

Cluster C personality disorders are characterized by anxious, fearful behavior and include obsessive-compulsive, avoidant and dependent personality disorders.

There's no cure for these conditions, but therapy and medication can help. The symptoms of some personality disorders also may improve with age.

Leave that determination to a psychiatrist.

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