Why don't we have an advocacy group so we can get jobs?

saudade7 wrote:So far on the Internet most people I've talked to who self-identify as schizoid or as having schizoid traits like to use emojis.

I actually use them a lot too, on some of my internet personas, anyways. They help people read the intent of a message. Also, if you're in a convo with someone, responding with emojis can often save you from having to form a coherent reply.

I'd say that the better I know someone, the less I use them.

That's how I was diagnosed. I let my psychiatrist know my username and she mentioned the amount and type of emoji's I used and decided it could only be SPD.

My psychiatrist printed out my diagnosis in emojis.

I've never actually seen a psychiatrist. I just post the Male Health Worker emoji and he tells me what drugs to take.

Back on topic: I just updated my resume and included a photo for a nice personal touch.

That does look like you, naps, except that you're much taller.

Good to not emphasis that as it's bound to antagonize the short hirers.

naps wrote::D

I was on a posting binge a while back concerning this and the rights of the mentally ill in general.

Are you in AmeriKKKa? Because politicians don't do anything here except vote to give themselves raises.

Besides, mention mental health these days and all anyone thinks of is assault rifles.

The key word is think. Not act.

I agree wholeheartedly but it would probably be easier to get the gov't to set up a 401k for my cat.

We'll have to get in line. Behind the millionaires. Behind minorities. Women. LGBT. The religious right. Plastic bags.

Best thing to do is to get 'em in the wallet. I get $1472.00/mo of gov't money for having OCD.

SPD is not recognized as a disability, I'm told by psychiatrists.

Schizoid = loner.
Loner = mass shooter.

The only way to get your fair share if you're mentally ill is to have a toxic comorbidity of narcissistic PD, histrionic PD and antisocial PD. Then they make you President.

Lol...I have to agree with that last statement. I think most politicians are (partially) sociopaths/psychopaths. They just watch the "non-elites" become polarized, while they ("the elected officials") play "the two-sided game" for the benefit of corporations. It's like a polarized mess being swallowed up by a black hole to them (more or less). Of course, they will NEVER say this. There must be an election coming up.

Politicians are whores.

It's government-subsidized bullying.

https://www.nami.org/#

N1ghty wrote:Most schizoid have personas that allow them to function well professionally. I only feel lost when I have to "play" myself not my work role because there is no preset I can play along by . I work with customers every day and function even better then some normal people since the level of offense I can take is beyond usual levels since I don't take anything personally. I don't get upset, I'm always objective and impersonal and I find that to be a good thing in my work. I listen well and am good at problem solving and trying to help anyone I can with my limitations and that is what most people want. My problem is only my private life... t could be my take on this but I think most "only" schizoids can relate. Your thoughts?

I saw a study once that 92% of homeless were cluster A, so obviously work is a problem for some. I wonder if there is a gender difference in terms of issues in work/private life. I am female, and I have never had to do any work to find a personal relationship. I have been married since I was pretty young; he figured out that we were similar and he would not go away. (He saw that I am "fake social" in public, called me out on it when we were alone, and told me that I did not need to do that with him. That won my love.) We are both loners, getting together with our families rarely, and maybe a few times per year (3 tops) with anyone else. I don't think our families even know whether we are officially married or not, and we have been together for over 2 decades now. I did not realize that this was well beyond the level of "normal" introversion until the last few years.

I feel that the social bar for women is much higher than it is for men, and he can get away with being much less covert in work situations than I can. I can be this fake persona, but wearing the mask burns me out extremely quickly, and I end up feeling completely drained (psychologically and physically) by the end of the day. I also end up feeling kind of disgusted that people like the fake version of me, and it is this lack of understanding and tolerance for "real me" that makes me feel alone in the world, not the lack of fake-@ss "friendships" based on shared interests. The message from society is that humans are social creatures, and I am really asocial, thus society must not deem me human.