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Personality disorder types
Understand the model, recognise it in a stem, separate the look-alikes, then apply it.
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Weird, Wild, Worried — Cluster A (paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal) is odd/eccentric = Weird; Cluster B (antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic) is dramatic/erratic = Wild; Cluster C (avoidant, dependent, anankastic) is anxious/fearful = Worried. An adopted classic in common medical-education usage, not a house invention — it sorts the CLUSTER in under five seconds; the specific type inside that cluster still has to come from its own one or two defining features.