OH, “That’s Just How They Are”… Or is it?. Have we ever reconsidered the personality label given to our loved ones? These 10 mental disorders or personality traits are often socially taken as a person’s identity in our society; We hear all these phrases all the time. We repeat them to ourselves or to others. But what if the oddities we lovingly—or unwittingly—label as personality traits are actually silent mental health conditions awaiting our attention for help? We offer a second thought from a humanistic and psychological perspective. Be with me to take a dive into mental health misunderstandings—and how homeopathy recognizes, diagnoses, and offers its help to heal the mind gently.
Mood Disorders Vs Personality Disorders:
How a person interacts with society: psychologists usually study an individual’s mind with two aspects. EMOTIONS & BEHAVIORS. the pattern of human emotions related to himself, to immediate relations, to society or culture, and to problem solving. The study of Behavior development throughout the life span, the impact of biological and social factors, and neuropsychology determines mental health. To differentiate 10 mental disorders or personality traits are mental health conditions from social stress, it is explained as;
Mood Disorders:
Many a time, mood disorders are confused with personality states. Mood disorders are emotional and episodic behaviors that are temporary conditions that occur for a brief duration and in response to specific situations, with extreme highs (anxiety) or lows (depression) in status.
Personality Disorders:
Whereas personality disability disorders are characterized by constant symptoms with a focal, fundamental chronic state reflected in a person’s relationships and their thinking behavior that deviates significantly from their culture. Examples are,
“He’s just moody.”
“He’s too shy.”
“Oh, he’s always been an idler.”
10 Mental Disorders, 10 Personality Traits:
Mental health cannot be diagnosed by specific blood tests. These conditions are indeed specific, but they are diagnosed based on patterns of disease outlined in diagnostic guidelines. For the interpretation of patient data, such as family and patient medical history, symptoms, and differential tests via DSM-5-TR (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5th edition-Text Revision) helps to reach the diagnosis. Often, these conditions go undiagnosed for years; they hide in plain sight, masquerading as someone’s “style” or “buzz killer.” And worse, many of them suffer emotional damage, strained family relationships, and internal confusion.
But homeopathy offers a life-changing opportunity; conventional medicine usually manages conditions with sedation and mood alleviators, anxiolytics, and palliators. But homeopathy treats underlying causative factors with its individualizing approach. That addresses it at a constitutional level, which is unique to each person. Epigenetic analysis and the resolution of miasmatic issues can be achieved gently. You will see this evidence-based approach to mental healing doesn’t require labeling people or sedating them into vegetative life.
Medical Criteria Of Diagnosis:
The DSM-TR is the cornerstone for diagnosis, treatment planning, communication among scientists, and for insurance or legal purposes. It divided personality disorders into 3 groups, or clusters: A, B, and C clusters, with specific characteristics of ailments. CLUSTERS are
A: includes individuals who are odd, unconventional, paranoid, and find it difficult to communicate and form normal relationships with society.
B: Characterizes emotionally inconsistent, dramatic, narcissistic, antisocial, and borderline characters with unstable and impulsive behavior, making them negative in collaboration maintenance.
C: Comprises anxious, fearful, obsessive, reluctant, and dependent temperaments. They tend to avoid social situations and find it challenging to participate in social activities.
We shall get behind the science of these 10 mental disorders or personality traits! and the features to explore how the homeopathic approach has transformed such lives positively—without judgment, only compassion
1. Avoidant Personality Disorder (AVPD);
“She’s just shy.” Yeah, she has been just like this from the beginning….
Meet Fatima, 27. This is her normal TRAIT, given to her as the norm, by refusing every invitation and answering in an undertone with short, brief sentences, and she would rather fake a hot or cold environment to avoid further communication. This is a CLUSTER C personality disorder and not a trait to ignore. Her avoidance is rooted in intense fear of rejection, deep self-criticism, a lack of confidence, and social anxiety, keeping her alone.
Homeopathy categorizes cluster C temperaments as a psora miasm and treats this miasm with anti-psoric medicines. The most common remedies suggested by Dr Phatak are Phos, Sulph, and Cocculus.
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2. Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD);
“He’s just well-organized and disciplined.” “No matter what, he’ll do it once it comes to his mind.” You come across such a person in daily life and consider this a kind of trait equivalent to perfectionism. But DSM-5 diagnoses it as OCPD, Cluster C disorder, and a person having at least four major symptoms for two years;
-Preoccupied with rules, regulations, and perfection,
-Workaholic, overworking, excessively devotional, and reluctant to work with others because they didn’t meet his level of understanding.
-Overconscientiousness, fastidiousness, and overly meticulousness. difficult to please.
-Do not discard objects, and do not spend them on yourself easily. miserly lifestyle.
But underneath lies extreme rigidity, unrest, and pseudo-perfectionism that ruin his physical and mental peace.
Homeopathic medicine, through the selection of anti-psoric remedies, successfully reverses this entire mental disorder. The most beneficial medicine, Ars Alb, makes the difference. Especially for miserliness and fastidiousness that gradually subsides under the influence of medicine.
3. Cyclothymia;
“He’s just emotionally intense.” “Oh, today he is not in a good mood; otherwise, he is very talkative and lively.”
Cyclothymia is usually observed in young individuals with sudden changes in highs and lows in emotional status. With a history of mood fluctuation for at least two years and symptomless periods of less than two months. It is a chronic condition with a sudden change in mood for a shorter period.According to DSM-5’s diagnostic criteria, it is a subtype of mood disorder under the wide category of Bipolar disorder type 2. Symptoms described for high
(hypomania) and low (depression) are assumed falsely for TRAIT.
SYMPTOMS OF HIGH (HYPOMANIC);
Excessive talkativeness, racing thoughts, physical over-well-being, and sleeplessness due to overthinking.
The patient exhibits foolishly optimistic behavior, inflated self-esteem accompanied by risky judgment, and poor concentration that leads to easy distraction.
SYMPTOMS OF LOW (DEPRESSIVE):
Opposite to the high condition are sadness, dullness, thoughtlessness, sleepiness, and physical weakness. Now the patient’s behavior becomes pessimistic, his esteem transforms to self-doubt, and he feels hopelessness. He lost interest in activities once enjoyed.
Seldom do these patients exhibit bipolar symptoms, such as suicidal thoughts and moderate to severe hypomanic symptoms.
Homeopathy successfully handles this disorder by selecting anti-psoric over anti-sycotic miasmatic remedies. A comprehensive study published in 2013 provided the effectiveness of Hypericum Q, along with other supplements. Also, medicines given by Dr Phatak are Ignatia and Silicea.
4. Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD);
“He’s just a worrier.” “She’ll not be at rest until her children come back from school.” “I know him he use to split hairs over every other issue.”
According to the DSM-5, this knowledge of someone’s daily habits and the consideration of those habits as a trait is classified as Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). The Anxiety and Depression Association of America has categorized this disorder into seven distinct scales. Total scores for the seven scales range from 0 to 21. Minimal anxiety: 0-4. Mild anxiety is 5-9, moderate is from 10 to 14, and severe is from 15 to 21. Criteria for diagnosis include three major and three minor symptoms lasting for a six-month duration.
MAJOR SYMPTOMS: **Excessive worry over unusual or common issues.** **Worry lasting or complaining for a period of six months**. **and worry is uncontrollable**.
MINOR OR ASSOCIATED SYMPTOMS: Fatigue, restlessness, sleeplessness, muscular pain, irritability, impairment in social and occupational life. The difference from other anxiety disorders is that this anxiety is not about a single issue or situation.
Homeopathic anti-psoric Nux Vomica proved acute management with complete resolution in jul 2024 IJHSR journal.
5. ADHD (Inattentive Type);
“He’s just lazy and forgetful.” “He can’t stay still and pay attention.”
Many of these figures we come across in our lives are usually from teenagers to mature adults. No one ever thinks they are suffering from one of the most common mood disorders. Initially, it was named ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder). Now, DSM-5 outlines its diagnostic rule, which requires six major symptoms to have been present for at least six months.
SYMPTOMS: #Carelessness that leads to habitual mistakes. # Habitual forgetfulness. # Confirm a failure to pay attention. # Mental tasks are almost impossible. # Lacking follow-through. # Disorganized even to deadlines. # Easily Distractable because of poor focus. # Losing things is common, even for important tasks. # Airheaded or scatterbrain.
Homeopathy completely reverses this illness with symptom-selected medicines. Homeopathy provides prime importance to mental symptoms, and it was the first to recognize a patient’s unique or different-from-normal habits as an indicator of selecting medicine. Strontium Carb for extreme forgetfulness. When someone forgets something suddenly, Anacardium is a remedy to cure this condition. The common indication of ADHD is forgetfulness of daily tasks or errands. Anti-sycotic remedies are Baryta carb and Medo.
6. Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD);
“She’s just overly sensitive and dramatic.” “Pay attention or face anger, we know him.”
This mood of our certain friend or elder in our family is quite familiar to us. Their relationships are a minefield of emotional outbursts and insecurity. It’s not “drama”—it’s BPD, a condition of unstable emotions and fear of abandonment. This cluster B disorder of Borderline Personality Disorder. According to DSM-5, the presence of five out of nine criteria is required for the diagnosis of BPD. OBJECTIVES are 1) Impulsive behavior, especially about shopping, substance use, and sex. 2) Mood is reactively unstable. 3) Paranoia. 4) Unstable self-image or self-esteem. 5) Variable relationship. 6) Suicidal thoughts. 7) Unreasonably intense anger. 8) Fear of abandonment, imagined or real. 9) Lack of purpose in life.
Homeopathy successfully covers each of the nine BPD diagnostic criteria symptoms. The Journal of IJHS, May 2020, provides a complete list of medicines for the disorder. The miasma that covers BPD is psora-syphilitic, medicines that are more effective are Ignatia, Stront c, Tub, and Mosch.
7. Persistent Depressive Disorder (Dysthymia);
“He’s just not a cheerful person.” “He is pessimistic by birth.”
This may remind you of your “realist” friend. You are used to his hopeless and indecisive conversation. Still, this low-level sadness, fatigue, and apathy are actually dysthymia, or PDD, a form of chronic depression often painted as a personality trait. DSM-5 describes at least two of the following conditions lasting for two years.
Symptoms: *Poor appetite or voracious hunger.*Sleepiness or sleeplessness. *Lethargy, *Feeling of hopelessness. * Low self-respect. * Poor concentration. * Sadness without irritability.
Homeopathic Help by Nux vom may surprise you, as published in Lippincot 2020. This ailment is further treated by anti-sycotic drugs like Alumina when low in self-esteem; if lack of confidence persists, Oleander shall revive. If indifference comes in with hopelessness, Sepia will certainly help.
8. Social Anxiety Disorder;
“She’s just quiet and reserved.” “My son stammers when he plays with elders.”
This introversion and reservation are more than a habit to ignore. Performance in public makes everyone nervous, but when a behavior becomes out of proportion to the situation and makes one’s life suffer, the stress of being assessed, judged, and evaluated causes fear, phobias, and sadness from society. This is a Social Anxiety Disorder. Under DSM-5, it becomes a disorder if it persists for a period of more than six month.
Homeopathy recognizes every aspect and condition of Social Anxiety Disorder in detail and treats it successfully with complete confidence. Medicines for anti-psoriatic treatment usually relieve anxiety. Gelsemium can improve fear of appearing in public, on stage, or in performance. The same can be achieved by Anacardium and Arg nit, which also help in examination fear. Many more can be treated if a certified homeopath is consulted.
9. Somatic Symptom Disorder (SSD);
“He’s just always complaining.” “He is a man who was a hospital.”
When there is always a headache, backache, or chest tightness, but test reports are normal. If such a person happened to be our loved one, people would accuse them of making things up. But definitely he’s not—he has SSD, where emotional distress manifests as physical (somatic) symptoms. “Soma” means “body,” and this disorder has a wide range of symptoms that appear as a diseased feeling. According to the DSM-5 list, it includes nine major fields with multiple subfields.
SOMATOFORM DISORDER TYPES:
These Somatoform types highlight many conditions where morbid pathology or physical changes don’t occur. # Conversion disorder (related to the sensory or motor nervous system), # Fibromyalgia, # Anxiety disorder, # Sleep, # Hypochondriasis, # Tension, # Pain, # Body dysmorphic, # References (Alzheimer’s disease pathological), # Psychotic, # Illness SSD, # Psychotic affecting other diseases,
Homeopathy achieves incredible success in controlling and giving relief to the SSD patients. Homeopathic literature and scientific journals record a fair number of cases recovered from the illness. Anti-syphlo-psora medicines worked better here. Medicines that Dr. Clarke recorded with As If symptoms are helpful in the management of SSD. The most effective medicine by general (homeopathic terminology) selection is Sulph-Iod. If persists, then Staphy.
10. Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD);
“She’s just the life of the party!” “Don’t take him seriously; he is more dramatic than real.”
We found that a few figures in our society always show emotional intensity, a need for attention, and theatrics in their expression and relationship; their superficial behavior makes them laughable . They want to be glamorized but are ridiculed rather than understood. Science explains that they are not acting on their own; instead, they are suffering from HPD (Histrionic Personality Disorder). A cluster B disorder.
It differs from other cluster B disorders in its core focus of constant effort to be the center of attention, whereas manipulation for gain drives ANTISOCIAL disorder. Fear of abandonment is the root core of BORDERLINE personality ,and grandiosity and entitlement help in the diagnosis of NARCISSISTIC personality disorder.
Homeopathy positively got the answer, in treating HPD, anti-sycotic drugs uproot the whole ailment morbidity and provide complete relief. A Homeopathic journal gives a complete list of medicines for HPD. Platina works when arrogance without shame is noticeable. Verat v helps in the same condition.
The Takeaway: “It’s Not Just Who They Are.”
We all love labeling people by their attitude; this behavior is seen by scientists as a stigma and a cause of social isolation. Now we know the misunderstanding of labels behind these 10 mental disorders or personality traits!. And sometimes, those “labels”—lazy, dramatic, shy, sad, and reserved—are masks worn by undiagnosed mental disorders.
It’s time we replace judgment with understanding and help, and instead of labeling them, reach out with listening.
And if we can do that gently, naturally, and permanently, homeopathy might just be the missing piece in their mental health puzzle.
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