QE50.7

ICD-11 MMS 2026-01

Personality difficulty

Description

Personality difficulty refers to pronounced personality characteristics that may affect treatment or health services but do not rise to the level of severity to merit a diagnosis of Personality disorder. Personality difficulty is characterised by long-standing difficulties (e.g., at least 2 years), in the individual’s way of experiencing and thinking about the self, others and the world. In contrast to Personality disorders, these difficulties are manifested in cognitive and emotional experience and expression only intermittently (e.g., during times of stress) or at low intensity. The difficulties are associated with some problems in functioning but these are insufficiently severe to cause notable disruption in social, occupational, and interpersonal relationships and may be limited to specific relationships or situations.

Index terms

  • Personality difficulty

Excludes

  • 6D10 – Personality disorder

Sibling codes

  • QE50.0 – Problem associated with relationship with friend
  • QE50.1 – Relationships with teachers or classmates
  • QE50.2 – Problem associated with relationships with people at work
  • QE50.3 – Relationships with neighbours, tenant or landlord
  • QE50.4 – Relationship with parents, in-laws or other family members
  • QE50.5 – Discord with counsellors
  • QE50.6 – Inadequate social skills
  • QE50.Y – Other specified problem associated with interpersonal interactions

Foundation entity

Personality difficulty – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/853711607

Allowed postcoordination axes

Part of: QE50: Problem associated with interpersonal interactions › 24: Factors influencing health status or contact with health services