This is a real-world medical entrance exam question, please give the true answer based on the question and selection. Topic name: Personality disorders, Subject name: Psychiatry
In personality disorder, features are all except 
Select and explain. 
A. Ego dystonic, B. Stas in childhood, C. Behaviour is maladaptive, D. Disorder results in personal distress
A: Ego dystonic
Answer: A: Ego dystonic 
Explanation: Personality disorders are rigid, maladaptive and produce functional impairment or subjective distress. They have an onset in adolescence or early adulthood; is stable through time; leads to unhappiness and impairment; and manifests in atleast two of the four areas: cognition, affectivity, interpersonal function or impulse control. They are Ego Syntonic in nature. Ref: Synopsis of Psychiatry, 11e, pg 742.