According to psychiatrists, personality disorders are psychological disorders that fall somewhere between neuroses and psychoses. Many of us so-called "normal" folks have experienced neuroses, such as mild anxiety or depression or various phobias, which may be limited in time or severity and do not prevent us from managing our lives. Psychoses, on the other hand, are very extreme psychological conditions such as schizophrenia or severe depression, which do cause major disruption in the lives of the sufferers and those around them.