Does your family know you have SPD?

lindi wrote:

stirner wrote:But I do find the idea, good. If I tried to speak schizotypal as half schizophrenic, my mother would problably get scared.

Some of them are "more translated" than others. Schizotypal for example is basically not translated, just made sound more finnish (skitsotyyppinen). Personally I might even prefer a scarier sounding name, 'cause now even doctors apparently confuse SPD and AvPD because they happen to sound similar in finnish In fact, some doctor had accidentally written AvPD in one of those reports (or whatever they're called) about me

I havent thought about AvPD. But yes the sound similar. The ICD equivalent is just anxious personality disorder. But in portuguese they retained the avoidant. Now the word "esquiva" is more like dodge in boxing or martial arts or even avoiding responsabilities than avoiding people. On the other hand the word "antissocial" used for ASPD really looks like avoidant/schizoid pd.

They would be so
Transtorno de Personalidade Paranóide(Paranoid)
Transtorno de Personalidade Esquizóide(Schizoid)
Transtorno de Personalidade Esquiva(AvPD)
Transtorno de Personalidade Dissocial(ICD ASPD)
Transtorno de Personalidade Antissocial(DSM ASPD)
Transtorno Esquizotípico(in ICD it is not a personality disorder)

As paranoid is day to day word it also sounds strage, the popular would be paranóico(a) or paranóia(for paranoia, in this case sounds the same)

EDIT: Some admin could please merge with the other thread. Shouldnt have opened a new
schizoid-personality/topic112628.html

I tried to tell my mother once, it was the first time I told anyone... and she was all like "have you been doing drugs dear?" I haven't bothered since then.

Nobody knows about my self-diagnosed SPD (Note: I'm far too paranoid to actually go to a doctor and get a clinical confirmation), and it is not worth telling my family as it wouldn't make any real difference to benefit me and would make dealing with them harder, whether they bovered to check out what it was or not, as now they'd have a label for me.

One of my cousins once searched celebrities with autism when her and her mother were trying to figure me out and she told me that Daryl Hannah the actress was like me

I've been looking into personalities sporadically since I was 14, as I knew I was different, at certain points I thought I might be bipolar (this was due to me doing drugs and drinking alot of alcohol so I was obviously top of the world when drunk/high, and when sober I couldn't even bring myself to text people back or chat on MSN), at one point I thought I might be an extreme introverted sociopath, and it was due to the Millions "Nomadic" subtype of AsPD that I came across SPD (I saw it before but assumed it was schizophrenia so never bovered to check it out), reading about it I saw alot of myself in it, however also some that weren't me.

Mostly in Akhtar's phenomenological profile e.g. feeling inferior and an outsider in life - Outsider yes, inferior...no I'm far too egotistical, afraid of intimacy - no I've just never experienced it, non-competitive - I'm semi-competitive for things I think are worthy of being so.

Learning about SPD was ultimately a confirmation, however not one I was ready to completely accept at the time, due to not wanting to take on a label like I'd done before, eventually I embraced Schizoid.

Do they know that I'm shy and incredibly averse to socializing and attention? Yeah, I think they've figured that part out by now.

Do they know what the official, current, psychological jargon for it is? No. Probably not.

my mother knows, but probably doesn't remember the term, or the specifics, or what it actually does, so... nevermind. she does remember that i told her something that warrants concern, that much is certain. i'm not holding it against her, mental issues are not my family's strong suit.

something else i wanted to note, if only kind of related. people are too secretive about their mental state. i'm no exception. whatever disorder or issue i read about, the prevalence seems to be 1%. seriously? the norm is only the norm because so many of those who struggle just keep doing so to save face or whatever. if everybody just started being honest about what they can't deal with, the norm would look differently. either that would mean a wider general acceptance, or the realization that change needs to happen.
i hope that wasn't too far off the rail.

Unpopular opinion : If my kid came to me and told me dad I have a psychiatric condition so don't judge me lol he'd end up with my hand across his face. I'd rather admit i'm a hopeless neet than hide behind some words to get away with it.

Isik wrote:Unpopular opinion : If my kid came to me and told me dad I have a psychiatric condition so don't judge me lol he'd end up with my hand across his face. I'd rather admit i'm a hopeless neet than hide behind some words to get away with it.

that would actually be quite helpful, because you'd also be demonstrating where his condition came from.

No (don't have the family) but I told my friends.

Isik wrote:dad I have a psychiatric condition so don't judge me lol

I can only speak for myself, but at least I didn't bring it up as some sort of an excuse...

Usually when you bring up some sort of condition or illness you might be suffering from, it is a way to explain why you're unable to do the things normal (/healthy) individuals have no trouble doing. So it's either a way to get some attention, which is doubtful, or a preemptive way to "apologize" for not being able to function properly. Why would you even mention you're "schizoid" to anyone. That's just another word for "introverted" and that hardly qualifies as anything serious, let alone an actual illness, so not bringing it up is a good idea if you do not want to sound like a whiny angsty kiddult. That is harsh but that's how most people see it.