Distinguished Features Of Obsessional Personality Disorder

Regardless of which pattern is being expressed by an individual in any relationship, there is a creation of interactional dynamics that are frequently exhausting, frustrating, personally painful, and emotionally trying. The remaining text is dedicated to illustrating the differences in the dual symptom structure of narcissism starting with the inhibited symptoms of narcissism and followed by unrestrained symptoms of narcissism.

Related to the poor quality of attachment and attunement that exists in a traumatic family environment one can discover that children develop a sense of inferiority, be indecisive with powerful self-doubts, a marked propensity toward feeling ashamed, with a fragility and highly defended ego structure that can activate a relentless search for and power and control in passive and indirect ways.

Frequently these are coupled with a marked sensitivity to criticism and a low tolerance for realistic setbacks and difficulties. Traumagenic families are low on stable predictability in their interactions which can greatly exacerbate interpersonal confidence problems and trust in others. There exists in many traumatic families a genuine question about the dependability of others and how much one can trust them. In addition, this self-erosion generates envy and jealousy about the possessions, talents, and capacity of others, always finding one's self lacking or not measuring up in significant ways.

Another challenge that is faced by the members of a family that could be characterized as traumagenic can be a lack of direction that may appear as aimlessness and shallow or poor patterns of commitment. This aimlessness is related to inadequate reinforcement for successful performance, or a lack of faith in one's ability to create a significant change in an overt outcome, coupled with doubt that one can be influential in the individual's own daily life.





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