Major disorders

Often, schizoids are diagnosed with other disorders such as depression, autism, schizophrenia and depersonalization.

- Have you ever been diagnosed with any other disease with symptoms close to those of schizoid personality disorder? If yes, which one?

- If you haven't been diagnosed with these disorders, do you think you could be diagnosed or self-diagnosed?

- If you're not officially schizoid and you think you are, do you have any other disorder closer?

I self-diagnosed with residual schizophrenia (negative symptoms) and depersonalization. Doctors say that I can be diagnosed with both.

If I have a personality disorder I assume it means that my thinking is also disordered - after all, what else is your personality but a construction of how you think?
If my thinking is disordered I assume it means that my perception is also disordered - after all, what else is your thinking but a construction of how you perceive the world?
If my perception is disordered I assume it means that my sense of self is also disordered - after all, what else is your perception but an extension of your sense of self?
If my sense of self is disordered I assume it means that I should be sceptical of anything I might think I know about myself.
If I'm sceptical about knowing myself (having known myself a lifetime) I must also be sceptical about anyone else thinking they know me, especially any diagnosis after a few hours analysis.

Diagnosed with all in list:

PTSD-over many many things that happened in my childhood, teenage, and adult years.

I used to have selective mutism real bad, but most of it went away after college. I still do in certain scenarios that remind me of past trauma, but it's rare.

Bipolar II

Slight ADHD, dissociative (because with bipolar means I'm either an extrovert or a robot) and depersonalization.

Pure-O OCD that gives me self harm thoughts (I've never come close, but both parents did), focusing on solving any and every problem I come across, and doing things in a certain way (I used to have religious OCD until I moved out of Oklahoma Bible belt) I have all sorts of annoying compulsions too. My OCD is the only reason I'm actually in therapy. I'm not on any meds, but have strongly considered them for it.

Schizoid personality disorder (which begrudgingly does a decent job babysitting my bipolar II)

DDK wrote:
- Have you ever been diagnosed with any other disease with symptoms close to those of schizoid personality disorder? If yes, which one?

Depression and OCD. The depression has been under control for the past few years. The OCD has not.

schizoid personality disorder
antisocial personality disorder
panic disorder (had a dx of anxiety disorder NOS for years which I think fits me better)
persistent depressive disorder (used to be called dysthymia)
alcohol use disorder

I think self-diagnosis is potentially damaging because it can lead to a distorted sense of self and perhaps an unconscious desire to mold to the self-dx.

Also, I didn't know SPDs are sometimes also dx'd with autism. I assumed they couldn't co-occur.

- Asperger's Syndrome
- Narcissistic Abuse Syndrome
- Schizoid Personality Disorder
- Avoidant Personality Disorder

Bonuses :-
- Tactile Defensiveness
- Clinical Depression
- Anxiety
- Mutism

slimsally wrote:Also, I didn't know SPDs are sometimes also dx'd with autism. I assumed they couldn't co-occur.

It happens at childhood with some schizoids.

Initially diagnosed as schizotypal, social anxiety disorder, and avoidant but eventually changed to only SPD. Those anxiety disorders are no longer listed on my chart even though I am a bit neurotic in general.

I have also been diagnosed with PTSD and major depressive disorder. The PTSD is unrelated.

I suspect I might have adult ADHD/ADD and obsessive compulsive personality disorder (as opposed to OCD) but those are both undiagnosed and I have not sought treatment or diagnosis for those.

Bluestar wrote:- Asperger's Syndrome
- Narcissistic Abuse Syndrome
- Schizoid Personality Disorder
- Avoidant Personality Disorder

Bonuses :-
- Tactile Defensiveness
- Clinical Depression
- Anxiety
- Mutism

You're hypochondriac my friend. That's all there is.

I have not been dxed. I'm finally officially on a waiting list to see what a professional might think about me. Though, my concern is, if she doesn't agree with me, it'll be because she's stupid rather than because she's right More seriously, probably I fit the diagnostic criteria which, of course, is behavioural in nature. The deeper questions about my motivations are more interesting but not dealt with adequately by the DSM.

I spend a lot of time on the AsPD forum, nursing my Cluster B traits, having some both in terms of AsPD and NPD (generally traits that can be shared when looking at both individually). My essence, whatever that might mean, is probably schizoid in nature. If it is, I am most likely of the covert/secret schizoid variety. A majority of my life is still made up of withdrawal and detachment, weak identity, anhedonia, and a dismissive/avoidant attachment style but, in instances where I do engage socially, I find myself quite capable and willing to be assertive or extroverted in energy (simply meaning I can project it outwards towards people and the space I'm in, rather than inwards like usual), have an absence of affective empathy, an exploitative personality style, manipulativeness, etc. The traits in the B cluster are mostly likely subclinical, since the disruptions tend not to be criminally maladaptive.