Personality Pathology
Dimension 131 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Personality Pathology measures the extent to which an expression reflects maladaptive personality disturbance, especially severe identity, boundary, interpersonal, and self-harm related problems that are framed as personality disorder features or diagnoses. It encompasses both broad references to serious psychological disorder and more specific indications of borderline-pattern disturbance.
evidence final name · Illness Diagnosis
Minimal Personality Pathology
Expressions activating this band contain little to no clear personality-disorder content and instead reflect general life circumstances, ordinary self-evaluation, or mild difficulty with assertiveness and coping.
Low Personality Pathology
Expressions activating this band refer to psychological disorder in broad or mixed ways, including mentions of diagnosis, dissociation, severe mental illness, or problematic behavior, without a clear concentration on enduring personality disturbance.
Moderate Personality Pathology
Expressions activating this band describe personality pathology more directly through references to diagnosed psychological disorder alongside characteristic difficulties with limits, control, or unstable behavior patterns.
High Personality Pathology
Expressions activating this band center on severe personality disturbance with prominent borderline-pattern features such as self-harm, suicidality, emotional volatility, and suspected but not always formally identified disorder.
Severe Personality Pathology
Expressions activating this band explicitly identify borderline personality disorder or closely related personality-disorder labeling as a central feature of the experience.
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Minimal Illness Diagnosis: Expressions show no meaningful illness diagnosis content. The proxy is effectively absent. Expressions activating this band are unrelated to illness diagnosis.
Emerging Illness Diagnosis: Illness diagnosis is clearly present at this level. This is the first band where illness diagnosis becomes detectable. Expressions activating this band reflect illness diagnosis at this level of intensity.
Elevated Illness Diagnosis: Illness diagnosis is present here in a general or mixed form without a single dominant facet. Unlike the band below, where illness diagnosis was characterized by a general form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band may reflect general or diffuse illness diagnosis.
Severe Illness Diagnosis: Illness diagnosis is present here in a general or mixed form without a single dominant facet. Compared to the band below, illness diagnosis is more intense and concentrated but retains the same essential character. Expressions activating this band may reflect general or diffuse illness diagnosis.