Research by professor Fredrick Hickling, lecturer at the University of the West Indies and clinical psychologist Vanessa Paisley, suggests that nearly a million adult Jamaicans suffer from personality disorders (PDs). This means many of us are with partners who may be considered unstable! A personality disorder is said to exist when the way in which an individual consistently perceives, relates to and thinks about him/herself and the world around him/her is so rigid and out of sync with others that it causes great difficulty in forming and sustaining relationships and coping with the normal stresses of daily living.