The Caring Person, The Rescuer, The Guilty Person, The Giving Person, The Abused Person, The Insecure Person. If you fall into one (or more) of these categories, chances are you've been the victim of a PDI. You're sick of all the manipulation and the feelings of being trapped–but just don't know how to stop the pattern. Psychiatrist and columnist Stan Kapuchinski explains that some toxic people have what the DSM II calls a personality disorder .
According to most institutions that study personality disorders, personality disordered individuals–PDIs–have a maladaptive and inflexible behavior style that firms up around adolescence and continues through adulthood. While the disorder is certainly deeply rooted, we don't have to take it, and Dr. Kapuchinski, a veteran in the realm of psychiatry, shows you just how to get out of the reach of the PDI's mental agenda and avoid his or her incessant need for adoration, attention, domination, control, avoidance, and dependency.
