As long as he can continue channelling what he refers to as "dysfunctional, erratic personality-disorder characters" and prowl the recesses of damaged, lonely, tormented minds, he'll be around for a very long time.
And Ms. Corthron can be wonderful in showing how people create their own ordering poetry out of life's disorder, in characters ranging from a ragged, avuncular drug dealer (Mr. Thomas) to a perpetually angry representative of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association (superbly portrayed by Jordan Lage).
Addictions, personality disorders or character problems can have a huge effect on a group.
DeGeneres reprises her role of the optimistic fish with a short-term memory disorder, with the character taking centre stage as she tries to recall her early life and how she became separated from her family.
Impression: Neurotic character disorder, with chronic alcoholism and reactive depression".
Personality disorder, also called Character Disorder, mental disorder that is marked by deeply ingrained and lasting patterns of inflexible, maladaptive, or antisocial behaviour.
So there we have it: one condition (autistic spectrum disorder) makes a character unattractive, the other (bipolar disorder) does not.
And then there were his psychiatric diagnoses: reactive depression with psychotic features, possibly an underlying character disorder.
Until 1991, when it instituted a policy abolishing discrimination against homosexuals in institutes affiliated with it, homosexuality was regarded as a perversion or character disorder.
Overheard on the Barnard campus: "Oh, I went for him, all right, but imagine how I felt when I discovered that all he had was a character disorder.
On the other hand, the star-crossed, parent-wrecked principals of "Set This House in Order" both have multiple personality disorder, so another character is always in the offing.
