Thursday, October 1, 2009

Personality Disorders

Are personality disorders more a function of nature or nurture?

21 comments:

  1. i think that personality disorders are a function of nurter because they begin somewhere...people are not born with them. for example, they are treated a certain type of way and they are affected...and that causes personality disorders. that's what i think...no one is born with personality disorders so it is not nature, something must have gone on in their lives for them to have that disorder.

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  2. Personality disorders are more a function of nurture. Maybe a personality disorder can be inherited but maybe not. Nurture can contribute to your personality because the person raised in relative isolation isn't exactly going to grow up to be social butterfly. A person doesn't just become an attention seeker. They usually grow up to be that way if that's is the way they were treated in childhood.

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  3. I think persoanlity disorders can be a function of both nature and nuture. I say that because the childhood of a person may affect their teen and adult life, which then causes them to become attached to a personality disorder that fits them and the lifestyle they want.Also, PD's can be a function of nurture because the environment that a person lives in can affect their personality. Personality disorders can be a function of nature because some persomality disorders can be genetic.

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  4. I think it is more about nurture. It is all about how people treat you and how you are raised. A person who is highly respected or favored probably won't have as many problems as someone who has to strive to be better or who has been pressured to be the best. It has a lot to deal with your upbringing because if your mother or father was a drinker or an abuser then it is more likely for that person to have a personality disorder. Another circumstance where someone would have a personality disorder is if they don't have parents because being a feral child or a child in the system isn't something easy to deal with.

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  5. I believe that is both, because both can cause mental damage and resulting in disorders. I believe nurture can cause lasting damage do to where the person is at, nature can also cause extensive damage due to an ongoing progression of unchanging behavior thus wearing down there mental stability. You can't rule that either one is greater than the other, being locked in a room tied to a potty chair (parents also having a history of mental stability) and left in a dark room can do major damage i.e. Genie

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  6. I think personality disorders come from nurture sometimes because some people develope personality disorders when they have had a bad relationship with there parents and other people have socialized with.I think nurture is not the only way because there are many people who have had a decent relationships with there parents and were doing fine in school and still developed wierd habits which turned into a personality disorder. I think that people from different places can effect whether you get a personality disorder, just not your family because likr Dahmer, he had a decent childhood until he started to experiment his Fascinations with corpes.

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  7. Personality disorders could be put under the category of both nurture and nature. Nurture personality disorder can possibly be a trait of the parents, and can be passed. These type of functions develop from somewhere. Nature comes into play with people being affected by whats around them, that can lead to personality disorders.

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  8. I think personality disorders are a function of both nature or nurture. In some cases a disorder can occur naturally with genetics. Sometimes the environment may impact someone in a negative or positive way. Bad things can influence a good person. Some people are born with bad influences from the get go. If someone is born with a personality disorder, however, it may worsen with nurture. If there is a lack or disappearance of nurture that will most likely affect a person. If somebody is not born with a personality disorder, one can definitely develop due to how they are nurtured.

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  9. i think it's both nurture and nature. personality disorders can be caused by genetics. but then again if it doesnt form in genetics it can be nurture. the way they are raised and treated during their childhood can give them a personality disorder at a very young age and so when they grow up it gets more severe and serious. but that's what other people think too. the real reason for personality disorder is really unknown but that's what professionals predict between nurture and nature.

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  10. i think that personality disorders are a function of nuture because if your parents brought u up a certain way that's how u act for instance the genie case she was isolated from people and kept in a room tied to a potty chair so she possible became retarded and she didn't really know how to approach people also if a past event happened in your life that scarred you, you may not wanna do simular things that pertain to that or you might not want to ever come close to that same situation.

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  11. i think it has to do with more of a nurture function. it has to do with your surrounding from when you were young and how well your mom and dad treated you. i think it has a lot to do with childhood experiences. if you are young your abused and all that other stuff your most likely to be troubled as an adult and thats usually people excused when they are rapist and killers. if you have a good upbringing and all that you are most likely to be successful.

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  12. I think that personality disorders are more a function of both nurture and nature. People can naturally be born with a personality disorder from birth or they can be diagosed with personality disorder later on in life from some type of traumatic thing that happend in their life.

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  13. People aren't born crazy or depressed. Events that happen in life when you're younger shape who you are when you're older. Serial killers usually had a hard life at a younger age. People can live with mild personality disorders or traits. These self image problems usually all come together and people with PD have more of a dramitic life. Nurture can cause people to become crazy. Its up to a parent to care for their child so they can be a normal person in the future. But children with difficult pasts including being constantly beat by a parent or yelled at can really mess somebody up. Like Genie, she was kept in a dark room all her life and she had no communication skills.

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  14. I think that personality disorders are nurture because once the child is born the parent must of been doing something for them to end up that way such as abuse or maybe the parent did those things and the child is followeing in there foot steps. For example, if your parent smokes alot before you are born you will more or so smoke if there is alot of drinking that runs in your family you will most likely be a drinker its all about what you see.I dont think nature has to do with anything.

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  15. I think that personality disorders fall under both nuture and nature. For a person to have a nuture trait they would have to get it from somewhere. A family trait. I think thats the only possible way, because a person that has a personality disorder can't just get it, they have to get it from a family member from some decent. But I also think that they can also get it from nature because people are affected by stuff around them ... so why cant they inhabit a personality disorder?!

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  16. I think that personality disorders function between both of nature and nurture. For example, if something happens to you in your childhood you can be dramatize through out your adulthood. Like say you were never hugged or showed love to as a child; in your adulthood you might be needy because your were not given the attention you deserve or the total opposite of that. Nature is also a function of personality disorders because you can get a personality disorder from your genetics maybe. For example, say that your dad suffers from O.C.D you probably have a 50-50 chance of being diagnosed with O.C.D due to your genetic make up.

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  17. Personality disorders are more a function of nurture rather than nature. Sure, some people can be born with something that makes them have a personality disorder. More often than not though, it is found out that because of some thing(s) that happened in childhood people develop these personality disorders. Maybe their parents were doing something wrong and the children learned from that. They could have hung out with the wrong friends and got the disorder that way. They could have just learned it on their own. Either way, it's more nurture than nature.

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  18. I think personality disorders are both a function of nature and nuture, but it's more along the lines of nuture. The way someone grows up affects how they think and act around others. Some people had a terrible childhood, causing them to be troublesomed as adult. Some personality disorders come from parents considering the quote "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree". If someone's parent has a personality disorder, the child has a high possibility of getting that same disorder or something that is about the same.

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  19. It is nuture just because most disorders are brought on by a past of bad trauma and life. Paranoid for instance is a side of effect of massive trauma or a terrible expirience with people. Historionic as well with people having an emotional problem and were never taught to control their emotions by anyone. The effects of emotion disorders are brought on by expirience of life not really brain problems just problems with how things happened to them as it is said most people with disorders have had troubled pasts. I know several people that have troubled pasts and suffer from many symptoms but it is not a full blown thing.

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  20. Ronald Silver
    My computer started messing up and i lost all my work. I think Personality Disorders are caused by nurture.

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  21. I would think that metal disorders would be nurture. Reason being is because some of most people get mental disabilities by the way they are treated. Like if someone is severely beaten or threatened bad as a child, chances are that they would be kind of messed up in their adult hood. Also some things like OCPD may be acquired from birth. But borderline, and dependant would be something that you maybe would grow into it.

    see ronald, thats because of all them cheatcode you be trying to download

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