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		<title>Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder</title>
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Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder is the 8th personality disorder in our series. You don&#8217;t want to miss any of them.  People with OCPD have impossibly high standards for themselves and others. Personal relationships are a challenge for them because of their tendency to be critical of others who do not share their inflexible standards. They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalityone.com/obsessive-compulsive-disorder.html</link>
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		<title>Emotional Maturity</title>
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Emotions are, according to Cognitive Theory, created by our thoughts. If you want to control your emotions, become aware of the thoughts that create (within the context of your environment) your feelings. Listen to what you are thinking. Write down your thoughts and check them for accuracy and rationality. If they are not accurate and/or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalityone.com/emotional-maturity.html</link>
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		<title>The Phobias</title>
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Researchers enthusiastically debate the etiology of phobias. Behaviorists point fervently to a pairing of a neutral stimulus and a frightening stimulus as the raison d&#8217;être of a phobic reaction. For example, an experiment performed in the experimental dark ages of the 1920’s paired a little fuzzy rabbit with a frightening noise. The subject was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalityone.com/the-phobias.html</link>
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		<title>Awesome Employee Test</title>
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What are companies looking for when they hire a new employee? What makes a 5 star worker? Naturally, a lot depends on the job. Nonetheless, there are some basic qualities and characteristics sought by the corporate world, law enforcement, government agencies and small businesses. If you were hiring, what would you look for in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalityone.com/awesome-employee-test.html</link>
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		<title>Avoidant Personality Disorder</title>
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Individuals who are diagnosed with Avoidant Personality Disorder (APD) are frequently diagnosed with Dependent Personality Disorder too. They can become very dependent on the few people in their support system.  Only 0.5% to 1.0% of the general population is likely to receive this diagnosis. This is another of the personality disorders that may become [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalityone.com/avoidant-personality-disorder.html</link>
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		<title>Narcissistic Personality Disorder</title>
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Narcissists are found at all economic  levels and in many and diverse careers. Naturally, politics, acting,  recording, higher education and religion have a ready audience to admire  and pamper them. Though, physicians, teachers, attorneys and executives  are not without their Narcissists, in fact, these careers could lure  an individual with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalityone.com/narcissistic-personality-disorder.html</link>
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		<title>Coolness Quiz</title>
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Recently I read a &#8220;cool&#8221; list, written by successful author Stephen King. I began pondering what makes someone cool. Alas, I discovered that, &#8220;cool&#8221; is impossible to define. We know it when we see it, but we become tongue tied and very uncool when we attempt to define it. There are some things in this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalityone.com/coolness-quiz.html</link>
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		<title>Histrionic Personality Disorder</title>
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If you have been following our Personality Disorder series of articles and quizzes you are familiar with psychopaths, and the Borderline, Paranoid, and Schizoid Personality Disorders. Now you have the opportunity to meet the Histrionic Personality Disorder. Histrionic persons crave attention just as I crave great coffee, fabulous sales and chocolate. They appear especially entertaining [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalityone.com/histrionic-personality-disorder.html</link>
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		<title>Schizoid Personality Disorder</title>
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The 4th article and quiz in our series on the Personality Disorders focuses on Schizoid Personality Disorder (SPD). We don&#8217;t know what causes the disorder, though we must assume that both genetics and environmental factors are involved. As with individuals with Paranoid Personality Disorder it is challenging to treat these solitary individuals. They may consider [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalityone.com/schizoid-personality-disorder.html</link>
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		<title>Paranoid Personality Disorder</title>
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I have just added the third personality disorder in our series, Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD). If you have not read the first two &#8212; Psychopaths and Borderline Personality Disorder &#8212; you are behind by two.
As Pat Conroy said: 
I&#8217;ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
In some situations Pat is entirely correct, though [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalityone.com/paranoid-personality-disorder.html</link>
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		<title>Borderline Personality Disorder</title>
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Two percent of the population, more women than men, suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Even mental health professionals are challenged in attempting to help these emotional individuals while maintaining their professional detachment and compassionate manner. Also, individuals who have been abused sometimes present with similar symptoms and their symptomology may be due to a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalityone.com/borderline-personality-disorder.html</link>
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		<title>Shyness Test</title>
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Shyness can limit ones enjoyment of life, or if the symptoms are extreme, it can make life excruciating miserable.  Symptoms of extreme shyness may meet the criteria for Social Phobia. Social Phobia is defined as (in the DSM IV TR): One strongly, repeatedly fears at least one social or performance situation that involves facing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalityone.com/shyness-test.html</link>
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		<title>Hints for Wellness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are a post menopausal woman, it may not be a good idea to drink alcohol every day. Women in this age group, who averaged one to two drinks per day, were 32 % more likely to develop the most common form of breast cancer. For younger women, I would suggest being very careful.
Physical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalityone.com/hints-for-wellness.html</link>
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		<title>Wellness and the Rising Cost of Food</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We were just getting used to the idea of eating &#8220;well.&#8221; Eating &#8220;well&#8221; means consuming foods that are nutritious and not heavily loaded with empty calories, the bad fats or dangerous additives. Learning to eat for your health is not an easy endeavor, for one thing every time a new wellness research study comes out&#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalityone.com/wellness-rising-food-cost.html</link>
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		<title>Getting A Job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I was walking with my Great Dane, Sophie (you will hear a lot about Sophie), I was thinking about the job market. I see depressing TV news programs and read discouraging stories in my local newspaper. Jobs are hard to come by and the search is getting more difficult and desperate. There are many [...]]]></description>
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