Diagnostic Criteria, Schizoid Personality Disorder

GraeSkies wrote:I wrote a blog about which traits apply to me and which ones don't of the avoidant, schizotypal and schizoid PDs.

Link to the blog? I might read it.
My non professional opinion is, that you are not schizoid.

GraeSkies wrote:

doritocakes wrote:You don't need our reassurance. It doesn't matter if you're the most outgoing person ever. You could still post here. It doesn't matter. Again, I'm not trying to be mean to you or anything. I'm just pointing out the flaws, as seen by me. If you were schizoid anyway, you'd be more likely to listen to what we're saying and consider it instead of blindly defending your self-diagnosis.

You're right, and I think I'm not just a schizoid. I think I'm the subtype of avoidant, schizotypal schizoid.
I just found out about this PD a couple nights ago and got excited about realizing that I'm not just some lazy girl who lays in bed all day daydreaming, and that it's actually something that I can give a name. So I rushed online to find a forum with the PD as the main topic and this is the forum I found.
Now that I read about the avoidant and schizotypal parts of this PD, and how it CAN apply, I think now you guys (and myself) may understand why I act a little different from the typical schizoid.
I'm afraid of rejection online, and irl it sort of still upsets me but I just act like it doesn't.

But you guys know more than I do, and I'm just trying to figure out what I am. So far, I think I'm just the Remote Schizoid. But maybe I'm not? You guys can see my personality better than me right now. If you want to help me diagnose myself, I wrote a blog about which traits apply to me and which ones don't of the avoidant, schizotypal and schizoid PDs.

well, very few people fit perfectly into a mold of one pd or another. some people have multiple pd's, and most of the time people don't have all of the traits of a disorder. if you have four or more schizoid traits (and whatever number of schizotypal and avoidant), then you technically qualify. but only a doctor can diagnose you.

i know it's nice to have a name for things, but every individual is different. maybe you just don't fit super well into any of those pd's, but you have traits of them all and meet the criteria for one or more. i guess logically speaking, if you meet the criteria for any disorder, you technically have it. but don't feel like you have to fit perfectly in one box or another or find exactly which box you fit in best. you are you as an individual before anything else.

anyways, welcome to the forums. people on here can be blunt or come off as rude or cold on occasion, but don't take it personally. people will usually point out when a schizoid isn't acting schizoid and doesn't explicitly say that they're not acting schizoid. O: if that made any sense.

and if you don't have blunted affect and have pretty normal emotions, expect a lot of not caring from everyone else, lol.

and even if you're not schizoid, you're probably very close to a schizoid and would understand the rants, questions, and discussions we have on here since you think similarly yourself. if you want to stay and can put up with us ranting about facebook like crazy old people, new opinions, ideas, questions, and discussions are always welcome here and having a new person to add their thoughts would make it even more interesting. :3

Thank you very much, Viinasu. You're the reason why I'm posting here again. But to tell you the truth, the part about the Avoidant PD is how I have hypersensitivity to criticism.. but not praise unfortunately. So maybe I'll post here, maybe not... idk. But thank you for your warm welcome

Am I allowed to diagnose myself with Schizoid? I just need reinsurance because I might be schizoid except i seem to lack few feature.

Fade wrote:Am I allowed to diagnose myself with Schizoid?

Allowed by whom? For what purpose? Your question doesn't seem to make much sense.

anagram wrote:Allowed by whom? For what purpose? Your question doesn't seem to make much sense.

I'm just wondering if I'm schizoid because it seems i share most of the characteristics of a schizoid personality.

Fade wrote:I'm just wondering if I'm schizoid because it seems i share most of the characteristics of a schizoid personality.

Unless you can see any benefit from having someone else tell you that you fit this diagnostic classification (remember: it's arbitrary), it's completely up to you. There is no consensus on the meaning of the word "schizoid". This is a topic discussed frequently and at length in this forum.

Probably because of this very lack of consensus, schizoid PD is being removed from the next edition of the DSM. People (laymen and professionals alike) will probably keep using the concept, though. I guess each one will just choose what they believe to be the closest label whenever the choice of a label is expected / required.

anagram wrote:

Fade wrote:I'm just wondering if I'm schizoid because it seems i share most of the characteristics of a schizoid personality.

Unless you can see any benefit from having someone else tell you that you fit this diagnostic classification (remember: it's arbitrary), it's completely up to you. There is no consensus on the meaning of the word "schizoid". This is a topic discussed frequently and at length in this forum.

Probably because of this very lack of consensus, schizoid PD is being removed from the next edition of the DSM. People (laymen and professionals alike) will probably keep using the concept, though. I guess each one will just choose what they believe to be the closest label whenever the choice of a label is expected / required.

Well if they are getting rid of the SPD in the next edition of the DSM, how is one supposed to have a professional diagnose them? Or improve themselves if they wish to? I ask this, not so much as I wish to "improve" myself, but just make things tolerable, which is something I have struggled with for a long time throughout my life, as I have only recently caught wind of SPD as a condition within the last 6 months and discovering for myself there exists such a condition has helped put MANY things into perspective for me.

Out of the initial list of criteria I def. can attest to the following, as well as my therapist:
-Not feeling attached to friends or family, really not close to any of them, even my immediate family, they all feel like strangers to me
-almost always chooses solitary activities
-takes pleasure in few, if any, activities
-appears indifferent to the praise or criticism of others
-Inability to pick up normal social cues

I also have a few other personality traits, which mainly reflect a loner status, and I understand many SPD folks share loner traits and vice versa, having one doesn't mean I have another, but it's always been like this for me, my inability to ignore the 500 lb gorilla in the middle of the room, always being on the outside of groups of friends or peers, and the inability to be social, or the want to be social, hell, people in general just irritate the never ending ###$ out of me. If work at home jobs were legit, I'd probably take one. The list continues.

Schizoid PD is a leprechaun who lives somewhere in between schizotypal PD and Asperger's syndrome (which, in turn, is also being removed as a separate condition and now being officially considered as a less severe form of autism). So if you want to self-diagnose with schizoid PD, but at the same time you feel some kind of need to add a perceived officialness to your self-diagnosis by relying on the latest DSM as your menu, then by next May you'll be either [normal], [schizotypal] or [autistic]. Pick your choice. Bon appétit.

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People will still use the secret schizoid.



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