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Are personality disorders really that common?

A recent headline blared that 1 in 5 young adults have a personality disorder.

Is that really true? Psychiatry fellow Maria over at intueri takes a look at the study and questions the findings.

She takes issue with the broad definition of a “psychiatric condition” and wonders if the vagueness of the diagnosis “encompasses too much of the variation of normal,” which “[does] more harm than good.”

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