<unk>  is a psychiatric diagnosis  characterized by<unk>  characterized by a pervasive and long-standing suspiciousness and generalized mistrust of others.  For a person's personality to be considered a personality disorder, an enduring pattern of characteristic maladaptive behaviors, thinking and personality traits must be present from the onset of adolescence or early adulthood.  Additionally, these behaviors, traits and thinking must be present to the extent that they cause significant difficulties in relationships, employment and other facets of functioning.  Those with<unk>  are hypersensitive, are easily slighted, and habitually relate to the world by vigilant scanning of the environment for clues or suggestions to validate their prejudicial ideas or biases. They tend to be guarded and suspicious and have quite constricted emotional lives. Their incapacity for meaningful emotional involvement and the general pattern of isolated withdrawal often lend a quality of schizoid isolation to their life experience.
Paranoid personality disorder
Emotionally unstable personality disorder
Histrionic personality disorder
Dependent personality disorder
Depressive personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder
Self-defeating personality disorder
Sadistic personality disorder