A psychiatrist is trained to repair what is wrong with the brain and mind, while the psychologist is studies normal as well for the brain and mind. It's like a physiologist compared to a pathologist.
That's not exactly true. While there is no exact med for the disorder itself, anti-depressants, anxiolytics, mood stabilizers, and anti-psychotics are all commonly prescribed to treat the symptoms associated with personality disorders and allow for treatment to progress. Controlling the depression and/or anxiety that results from the disorder first is often paramount in treating the disorder itself. Like this: you break your leg and it hurts, so you give medication to treat the pain before you can treat the fracture itself. And OP please don't take this to mean that you'll have to be on medication....just that medication options exist.
Exactly. If you go to a psychiatrist with a problem such as this he will most likely put the patient on some sort of dopamine antagonist. Obviously, there is no set guideline, but off label use for treatment of these disorders is very common. They aren't treating the root cause, but the symptoms of these disorders like social anxiety or beta blockers for generalized anxiety. But the realm of personality disorders is quite encompassing. We don't know what the OP actually has an issue with. The nice thing with medication of this sort for these patients is that it allows the patient to see that there is an alternative reality out there (albeit temporary). He is not necessarily stuck on the path that seems never ending. Thus once the patient can see there is another world out there, he can eventually halt usage of the medication. Thus if he is lucky, it is not a lifelong dependence on the medication.
If anything does end up being true, try going through the therapy thing first. Don't jump on the meds asap. If you do get meds, stick to them. Do not for any reason stop taking them before your psychiatrist tells you to. That is my only advice.
