If you are having a hard time remembering the clusters and which disorder falls into which cluster, this mnemonic will be helpful.
Three clusters: A, B and C; remember as WWW – Weird, Wild and Worried, respectively.
Cluster A – Weird (Genetic association with Schizophrenia)
- Accusatory: Paranoid (Suspicious)
- Aloof: Schizoid (Voluntary social withdrawal)
- Awkward: Schizotypal (Schizoid + Magical thinking)
Cluster B – Wild (Genetic association with mood disorders and substance abuse)
- Bad: Antisocial (>/=18 years with a history of Conduct Disorder, Sociopath and Manipulative)
- Borderline: Borderline (Unstable and afraid of abandonment)
- flamBoyant: Histrionic (Attention-seeking and excessive emotionality)
- Best: Narcisstic (Grandiosity, reacts to criticism)
Cluster C – Worried (Genetic association with Anxiety disorders)
- Cowardly: Avoidant (Seeks social relationship but avoids social situation; hypersensitive to rejection)
- Compulsive: Obsessive-compulsive (Inflexible but inefficient)
- Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder: Ego-syntonic (happy with how they are)
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder: Ego-dystoni (wishes they could stop)
- Clingy: Dependent (Submissive)
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