Personality Disorders Common
in U.S.
By Kathleen Doheny
HealthDay Reporter
FRIDAY, Aug. 6, 2004 (HealthDayNews)
-- Personality disorders are
much more common in the United
States than researchers had
thought, affecting nearly one
in seven adult Americans, a
new survey finds.
Researchers say that 31 million
people, or 15 percent of the
adult population, suffer from
at least one type of personality
disorder.
Roughly half of these people
had obsessive-compulsive disorder
(OCD), and a sizable minority
were paranoid and harbored an
unusual distrust of others,
according to the review.
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