The Differences Between a Person With Personality Disorder and the Rest of Us

Personality disorder lies on a continuum with ordinary personality so there is going to be no strict division between the two. In a sense everybody's actions can be explained by things that have happened before. We might think that early psychosocial adversity reduces the degree of responsibility that they have and we might think this because they haven't learned certain skills which many of us naturally possess through having been brought up in more stable and caring ways. So there are two differences potentially between someone with personality disorder and the rest of us. One is whether or not it's right to blame and the other is the degree of responsible we attribute to them.