G1 | Evidence that the individual’s characteristic and enduring patterns of inner experience and behaviour deviate markedly as a whole from the culturally expected and accepted range (or “norm”). Such deviation must be manifest in more than one of the following areas: 1—Cognition (i.e. ways of perceiving and interpreting things, people and events; forming attitudes and images of self and others); 2—Affectivity (range, intensity and appropriateness of emotional arousal and response); 3—Control over impulses and need gratification; 4—Relating to others and manner of handling interpersonal situations. |
G2 | The deviation must manifest itself pervasively as behaviour that is inflexible, maladaptive, or otherwise dysfunctional across a broad range of personal and social situations (i.e. not being limited to one specific “triggering” stimulus or situation). |
G3 | There is personal distress, or adverse impact on the social environment, or both, clearly attributable to the behaviour referred to under G2. |
G4 | There must be evidence that the deviation is stable and of long duration, having its onset in late childhood or adolescence. |
G5 | The deviation cannot be explained as a manifestation or consequence of other adult mental disorders, although episodic or chronic conditions from sections F 0 to F 7 of this classification may co-exist, or be superimposed on it. |
G6 | Organic brain disease, injury, or dysfunction must be excluded as possible cause of the deviation (if such organic causation is demonstrable, use category F 07). |