FIGURE 13.1 • Stability of Personality Disorders Within 2 years of being diagnosed with a personality disorder, around one quarter to one third of the people in one study no longer met the diagnostic criteria for 12 consecutive months (Grilo et al., 2004). This finding indicates that personality disorders are not as stable as once thought.

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