Personality Disorder Treatment in Atlanta, Georgia
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At Peachtree Wellness Solutions, our personality disorder treatment in Atlanta, Georgia provides comprehensive, evidence-based care for individuals struggling with various personality disorders.
Our specialized team combines clinical expertise with compassionate understanding to create personalized treatment plans that address the unique challenges of personality disorders.
We offer multiple levels of care—from intensive residential treatment to flexible outpatient programs—designed to help clients develop healthier patterns of thinking, emotional regulation, and interpersonal relationships.
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What Is A Personality Disorder?
A personality disorder is a type of mental health condition characterized by unhealthy patterns of thinking, functioning, and behaving that significantly differ from cultural expectations and cause persistent problems in relationships and other areas of life.
These deeply ingrained patterns typically begin in adolescence or early adulthood and remain stable over time, affecting how a person perceives themselves and others, manages emotions, relates to others, and controls their behavior.
While personality disorders present significant challenges, specialized treatment approaches have proven effective in helping individuals manage symptoms, develop healthier coping strategies, and improve their quality of life and relationships.
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Types of Personality Disorders
The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) recognizes ten specific personality disorders, grouped into three clusters based on similar characteristics: Cluster A (odd or eccentric behavior), Cluster B (dramatic, emotional, or erratic behavior), and Cluster C (anxious or fearful behavior).
Common examples include borderline personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, avoidant personality disorder, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.
Anxious Personality Disorders
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Characterized by extreme social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to rejection, causing individuals to avoid social interactions despite desiring relationships.
Dependent Personality Disorder
Features excessive need to be taken care of, submissive and clinging behavior, fear of separation, difficulty making everyday decisions, and extreme lengths to obtain support from others.
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
Involves preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control at the expense of flexibility and efficiency, often resulting in rigid adherence to rules and inability to complete tasks.
Emotional and Impulsive Personality Disorders
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
Characterized by instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and emotions, with impulsive behavior, intense fear of abandonment, and recurring suicidal or self-harming behaviors.
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Marked by a pattern of excessive emotionality and attention-seeking behavior, including discomfort when not the center of attention and rapidly shifting, shallow expressions of emotion.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Defined by a pervasive pattern of disregard for others' rights, lack of empathy, and tendency toward deceitfulness, irresponsibility, and violation of social norms without remorse.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Features an inflated sense of self-importance, need for excessive admiration, lack of empathy, and preoccupation with fantasies of success while exploiting relationships.
Suspicious Personality Disorders
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Involves persistent distrust and suspicion of others without sufficient basis, interpreting benign actions as malevolent and harboring unwarranted doubts about others' loyalty.
Schizoid Personality Disorder
Characterized by a pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and limited range of emotional expression, with individuals appearing indifferent to both criticism and praise.
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Marked by acute discomfort in close relationships, cognitive or perceptual distortions, and eccentricities of behavior, including odd beliefs and magical thinking.
Signs and Symptoms of a Personality Disorder
Someone in need of personality disorder treatment will exhibit signs that they have this type of mental illness. While not everyone has the same symptoms, the most common ones include:
- Distrust of others
- Tends to hold grudges
- Misinterprets other people’s comments and actions in negative ways
- Isolates
- Quick to anger
- Emotional outbursts
- Shows a lack of emotions
- Paranoia
- Impulsive behaviors that are often risky
- Suicidal feelings
- Hallucinations
- Exaggeration of achievements or talents
- Hypersensitive to criticism
- Depends on others for validation and their own identity
- Strives for perfectionism
- Difficulty maintaining healthy friendships or romantic relationships
- Uses drugs or alcohol to soothe symptoms of mental illness
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Our Georgia Treatment Programs for Personality Disorders
At Peachtree Wellness Solutions, we recognize that recovery from personality disorders is not about changing who you are, but rather about helping you become the most authentic, functional version of yourself.
Our Georgia-based programs provide the structure, support, and specialized expertise needed to make meaningful progress toward a more fulfilling life with healthier relationships and greater emotional stability.
Each treatment plan is personalized to address the unique symptoms, challenges, and goals of the individual.
Residential Treatment
Our residential programs provides 24/7 care in a structured, supportive environment where clients can fully focus on their recovery away from daily stressors and triggers. This immersive experience is particularly beneficial for personality disorders, offering consistent therapeutic engagement that helps break entrenched patterns of thinking and behaving.
Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)
Partial Hospitalization Programs (PHP) offer comprehensive treatment during daytime hours while allowing clients to return home in the evenings. This level of care is ideal for individuals who have completed residential treatment or whose symptoms don’t require 24-hour supervision but still need intensive therapeutic support.
Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)
Our IOP in Atlanta provides focused treatment while allowing greater flexibility to maintain work, school, or family responsibilities. Clients typically attend treatment 3-5 days per week for 3-4 hours per day. For personality disorders, this level of care emphasizes practical application of therapeutic insights in real-world settings with regular clinical support to process challenges and reinforce progress.
Outpatient Treatment
Outpatient mental health treatment offers the most flexibility, with scheduled therapy sessions 1-2 times per week. This level of care is appropriate for individuals with milder symptoms or those who have progressed through higher levels of care. For personality disorders, consistent outpatient therapy provides ongoing support for maintaining progress and addressing challenges that arise.
Our multi-tiered approach allows for seamless transitions between levels of care as clients progress in their recovery journey. Throughout all programs, our specialized team employs evidence-based modalities particularly effective for personality disorders.
What Causes a Personality Disorder?
While there isn’t one singular reason a person develops a personality disorder, some factors are thought to contribute to someone having one.
Genetics can play a huge role, as it often does when it comes to mental health disorders running in a family. As well, events that take place during childhood can influence a person developing a personality disorder.
So much of a person’s personality takes shape as they are growing up, which means certain events can cause a personality disorder to develop. These events can include childhood abuse or neglect, experiencing a traumatic event, and the loss of a parent or other close family member.
Other factors include being raised in a chaotic environment that includes things like family violence, no close supervision from a caretaker, and family members with mental illness or an addiction to drugs or alcohol.
While not every child exposed to these challenging circumstances will develop a personality disorder, it increases their risk of having one, as well as other mental health disorders.
How We Treat Personality Disorders in Atlanta, Georgia
At Peachtree Wellness Solutions, we take a multifaceted approach to treating personality disorders, combining cutting-edge neuroscience with evidence-based therapeutic modalities.
Our mental health experts understand that personality disorders stem from complex interactions between biological predispositions, early life experiences, and environmental factors. This understanding shapes our comprehensive treatment philosophy.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
DBT was specifically developed for borderline personality disorder but has proven effective for many personality disorders. This structured therapy combines cognitive-behavioral techniques with mindfulness practices to help clients develop four key skill sets: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
Our psychiatric services provide expert medical assessment and management for personality disorders and co-occurring conditions.
Our board-certified psychiatrists conduct thorough evaluations to determine if medication might benefit specific symptoms like mood instability, anxiety, or impulsivity that often accompany personality disorders. While medications cannot cure personality disorders, they can help regulate neurochemical imbalances, creating a more stable foundation for therapeutic work.
Recognizing that healing involves the whole person—mind, body, and spirit—our holistic therapy program complements traditional treatment approaches. For individuals with personality disorders, holistic modalities like mindfulness meditation, yoga, and art therapy provide alternative pathways for emotional expression, stress reduction, and self-discovery.
At the core of our treatment program, individual therapy provides a safe, confidential space for deep therapeutic work. Our specially trained therapists build trusting relationships that allow for exploration of the complex factors underlying personality disorders.
Personality disorders significantly impact family dynamics, often creating patterns of miscommunication, conflict, and distress. Our family therapy program educates loved ones about personality disorders while improving communication patterns and boundary-setting.
Group therapy provides powerful opportunities for interpersonal learning and growth—essential components for treating personality disorders. In structured groups facilitated by experienced therapists, clients practice new skills, receive feedback about interpersonal patterns, and experience belonging in a supportive community.
Our advanced genetic testing services provide valuable information to guide personalized treatment. By analyzing genetic markers related to neurotransmitter function and medication metabolism, we can identify biological factors that may influence symptom presentation and treatment response.
This innovative therapy combines biofeedback, music therapy, sound frequencies, and gentle vibration to create a multi-sensory healing experience. During sessions, clients recline on a specially designed table that transmits low-frequency vibrations synchronized with calming music and guided imagery.
Red light therapy utilizes specific wavelengths of red and near-infrared light to stimulate cellular repair and reduce inflammation. For individuals with personality disorders, who often experience heightened stress responses and related physiological dysregulation, red light therapy can help restore balance to the nervous system. Regular sessions may improve mood, reduce anxiety, enhance sleep quality, and increase energy levels by supporting mitochondrial function and reducing oxidative stress
Find Mental Health Treatment in Atlanta Today
Do you have a personality disorder or have a loved one who does and you want to get the best help available?
Peachtree Wellness Solutions provides a personality disorder treatment programs in Atlanta, Georgia that changes lives.
We provide focused, intensive care both on a residential and an outpatient basis. Whether you reside in our facility or attend daytime sessions, you will receive a plan designed to meet your specific needs. We partner with you to help you set and meet treatment goals that lessen the impact of having a personality disorder.
If you would like more information about our program, visit our admissions page now. Help is just a phone call away.
Medically Reviewed
Medically Reviewed by Dr. Bryon McQuirt
Last Updated on:
February 24, 2025
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