personality change
Behavioral metamorphosis occurs
A personality change is a noticeable shift in someone's typical patterns of thinking, feeling, or behaving.
Such changes may be gradual or sudden, and can result from life experiences, aging, medical conditions, brain injury, or mental illness.
After the accident, friends noticed a dramatic personality change—he became withdrawn and irritable.
The term often carries concern, suggesting something has gone wrong.
- strokeSudden brain blood blockage
- brain injuryDamage to cranial organ
- head traumaInjury to the skull
- dementiaChronic cognitive impairment
- cultural assimilationAdopting another group's norms
trauma · grief · mental breakdown · depression · epilepsy · emotional dysregulation · peer pressure · schizophrenia · divorce · neuroplasticity · Alzheimer's disease · bipolar disorder · job loss · lobotomy · near death experience · relocation · anxiety · mood swings
- dementiamemory loss, Alzheimer's, forgetfulness, cognitive decline, memory impairment
- Brain InjuriesTBI, concussion, brain trauma, brain damage, traumatic brain injury
- Brain Disordersdementia, Alzheimer's, epilepsy, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's disease
personality changeset in one's ways
Fixed in habits
predictability · steadfastness · self-consistency · true to form · being oneself
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