Resource Category: Personality Disorders

A personality disorder is a type of mental health struggle in which someone has rigid and unhealthy patterns of thinking, functioning, and behaving. Someone with a personality disorder may have trouble perceiving and relating to situations and people. This causes significant problems and limitations in relationships, social activities, work, and school. Some people with personality disorders may not realize it, because their way of thinking and behaving seems natural to them. They may also blame others for their challenges or insist the person approaching them is the
one with the issues. Because of this, when offering support, it is important
to set your own boundaries and recognize professional help is always recommended. When having a conversation about getting help, remain firm but nonjudgmental, as shifting rhetoric away from blame and toward a place of caring is more effective.

Please note all of these disorders can be conceptualized as spectrums along which an individual falls and moves, and no group is defined by
its symptoms. Just because antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) is characterized by lying, it does not mean all people with ASPD are liars.

Resist Your Inner Pharaoh: Unharden Your Heart

Over the course of the Exodus, one of the driving forces in the story is the “hardening” of Pharaoh’s heart. This “hardening” set him in his cruel ways and prevented him from releasing the Jews from slavery, despite the increasing severity of the plagues and the pleas of his constituents. As most commonly understood, the loss of his free will to repent was a divine punishment for his mistreatment of the Jewish people in slavery, but there are voices within Jewish tradition that actually see Pharaoh’s challenge as something that plagues almost everyone — habituation.
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