Personality disorder	Prominent features of disorder	Experience of illness	Problematic behaviors in medical setting	Management strategies
Paranoid	Distrust, suspicion	Heightened sense of fear and vulnerability	Fear physician may harm, arguments, conflict	Adopt a professional stance, provide clear explanations, be empathetic to fears, avoid direct challenge to paranoid ideation.
Schizoid	Social detachment, emotional restriction	Anxiety because of forced contact with others	Delay seeking care, appear unappreciative	Adopt a professional stance, provide clear explanations, avoid overinvolvement in personal and social issues.
Schizotypal	Odd beliefs, socially isolative	Odd interpretations of illness, anxiety because of forced contact with others	Delay seeking care, odd beliefs, odd behavior	Adopt a professional stance, provide clear explanations, tolerate odd beliefs and behaviors, avoid overinvolvement in personal and social issues.