Schizoids are lame people

why?
just curious

well, i like psychology.. a lot. i love learning about new disorders and such.
i have borderline personality disorder. and from what i've read BPD and SPD are basically polar opposites. it's a very different disorder. that's why i find it interesting i'm sure

kalley1618 wrote:well, i like psychology.. a lot. i love learning about new disorders and such.
i have borderline personality disorder. and from what i've read BPD and SPD are basically polar opposites. it's a very different disorder. that's why i find it interesting i'm sure

i sort of love and hate psychology :/ don´t know why.
but btw, we have a poster here who has both (bpd and spd)

boredoms about perception people aren't interesting or boring its how you percieve them same goes for everything in life

Ashlar wrote:SPD seems like it would be commonly associated to schizophrenia which they would associate with psychotic episodes and hallucinations. It's all sorts of wrong, but most people just don't know nor care anything about psychology, psychiatry, mental illness, etc.

The way my psych explained it to me, Schizoid PD is basically a disorder of affect and attachment. It does have correlations to heredity of schizophrenia, and SPD sufferers may exhibit negative, or more rarely positive, symptoms of schizophrenia. Not to be pedantic, but for anyone who doesn't know, negative symptoms are things like cognitve difficulty, flat or suppressed affect, anhedonia, avolition, and such, while positive symptoms are delusions, hallucinations, or psychotic symptoms. SPD isn't schizophrenia, though. The symptoms, if exhibited, tend to be less severe.

Mansion wrote:

Ashlar wrote:SPD seems like it would be commonly associated to schizophrenia which they would associate with psychotic episodes and hallucinations. It's all sorts of wrong, but most people just don't know nor care anything about psychology, psychiatry, mental illness, etc.

The way my psych explained it to me, Schizoid PD is basically a disorder of affect and attachment. It does have correlations to heredity of schizophrenia, and SPD sufferers may exhibit negative, or more rarely positive, symptoms of schizophrenia. Not to be pedantic, but for anyone who doesn't know, negative symptoms are things like cognitve difficulty, flat or suppressed affect, anhedonia, avolition, and such, while positive symptoms are delusions, hallucinations, or psychotic symptoms. SPD isn't schizophrenia, though. The symptoms, if exhibited, tend to be less severe.

Note that I was only referring to the colloquial use of any "schizo" term. The "average" person believes in television and movie tropes about such things, in my experience.

Whoops. So I was just being pedantic.

kalley1618 wrote:
well, i like psychology.. a lot. i love learning about new disorders and such.
i have borderline personality disorder. and from what i've read BPD and SPD are basically polar opposites. it's a very different disorder. that's why i find it interesting i'm sure

I've heard that SPD and HPD are opposites. If you think on it the extrem attention seeking of the HPD is the exact opposite of the SPD-s "I want to be alone and unnoticed". Though there's something called hidden schizoid who wants to have a career and thus he wants to be recognised. But that has to do more with narcissism than HPD.

Mansion wrote:

Ashlar wrote:SPD seems like it would be commonly associated to schizophrenia which they would associate with psychotic episodes and hallucinations. It's all sorts of wrong, but most people just don't know nor care anything about psychology, psychiatry, mental illness, etc.

The way my psych explained it to me, Schizoid PD is basically a disorder of affect and attachment. It does have correlations to heredity of schizophrenia, and SPD sufferers may exhibit negative, or more rarely positive, symptoms of schizophrenia. Not to be pedantic, but for anyone who doesn't know, negative symptoms are things like cognitve difficulty, flat or suppressed affect, anhedonia, avolition, and such, while positive symptoms are delusions, hallucinations, or psychotic symptoms. SPD isn't schizophrenia, though. The symptoms, if exhibited, tend to be less severe.

I was diagnosed with SPD because of anhedonia, avolition, and apathy, it is weird that he said that when DSM clearly states those, those 3 things will make you less social as a side effect. They are pretty severe to me. That said psychology is #######4, one person can get different diagnosis from different doctors, and there is no way to verify anything anyway, if there is no treatment for SPD then all those speculations can't be verified in any way. People with completely different core problems can get diagnosed as schizoid, and doc x can diagnose patient z with SPD, but doc z can diagnose him with something else.

I think that I am boring to everyone who isn't myself. That is not my problem.