What are your thoughts the term “Personality Disorders”?

I’ve never felt comfortable with using this terminology with my clients.

Here’s a recent article that addresses this: psyche.co/ideas/theres-a-growing-case-f…?

“…despite their name, personality disorders do not appear to be uniquely related to differences in personality test scores.

Research highlighted by Wright’s team suggests that people showing more symptoms of a personality disorder tend to score higher on neuroticism and lower on conscientiousness, but no more so than people exhibiting symptoms of other psychiatric disorders – which undermines the idea that their condition is distinctively a disorder of personality.

(the authors) argue that the personality disorders should be recast as the ‘interpersonal disorders’.

Let’s think: how much distinction is there between mental health and social health? Have we mis-conceived the notion of the self, separate from others?