Episode 9- Personality Disorders & Coping Mechanisms

Personality Disorders and Coping Mechanisms are thoughts we created in our minds to help us survival childhood trauma. Sometimes these conditions are not helpful in our daily life, but sometimes can have positive aspects. Use the questions below to determine if you have a personality disorder or use coping mechanisms, and whether you experience positive or negative experiences with them.

1. What personality disorders do you think you experience?

2. What traits of that/those disorders do you see in yourself?

3. Make a list of the traits you see, and then write a description of how eat trait affects your daily life.

4. Now, next to each of those affects, write whether you think those are positive or negative traits.

5. Use the above 4 questions now to look at the coping mechanisms I discussed in the podcast. Make a list of each one you see in yourself, what traits you experience, and whether those are negative or positive.