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| User: | schizotypal7 (12473236) Schizotypal Personality Disorder
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| About: | Welcome to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} schizotypal7 the only active LJ community made specifically for Schizotypal Personality Disorder. I created this community as a place to come to ask questions, vent, talk about your experiences with StPD, and connect with others who can relate. You don't have to be diagnosed to join, please feel free to post about anything you think is relevant to help kick-start this new community. Discription of Schizotypal disorder from essortment.com Many people know about psychotic disorders like schizophrenia – in fact, schizophrenia is probably the most well-known one. However, there are many other disorders, some a lot milder than schizophrenia. There are even several milder disorders that are directly related to schizophrenia, as is the case with schizotypal personality disorder (SPD). SPD is not a psychotic disorder, but is characterized by some “psychotic” episodes. These, however, are much less common than in schizophrenia. The disorder is characterized mainly by disturbed thinking and odd beliefs, which to others are obviously strange and false. There are many symptoms an individual will experience in connection with SPD. They include incorrectly interpreting casual incidences as having unusual meaning directed specifically towards the individual; having odd fantasies or beliefs – excessive superstition, belief in clairvoyance, telepathy, bizarre fantasies or preoccupations; suspicious or paranoid beliefs; behavior or appearance that is odd, eccentric, or peculiar; lacking close friends or confidants; excessive social anxiety; unusual perceptual experiences; and inappropriate or constricted effect. A person with SPD may believe that strangers are speaking about him/her when s/he’s walking down the street. S/he may also believe that a television broadcast is meant especially for him/her. S/he may also believe that people are going to harm him/her even when there is nothing to support such a belief. Some patients also experience unusual perceptual experiences, such as hearing and seeing things that aren’t really there. They may think a small noise is really a voice, or see people moving out of the corners of their eyes when they are alone in the room/house. Many SPD patients take these as normal, everyday occurrences. They may go out in public dressed up in strange ways (layers of clothing, mismatched or unkempt outfit), and may talk to themselves. People surrounding them may label them as “crazy.” Though this sounds like schizophrenia, schizophrenics actually have delusions that allow them to believe they are specially important people and that’s why they’re experiencing some similar symptoms – it’s “taken to the next level.” However, it’s a proven fact that relatives of schizophrenics are more likely to suffer from either schizophrenia and schizotypal personality disorder, as well as the other varieties of schizophrenia. (Article continues on link abouve) Other Online Resources MSN Schizotypal Group Active Message Board, the only other open dialog I've found online specifically about SPD. Their Substance Use Board Google Scholar Articles on Schizotypal Psychnet-UK Information Sheet on Schizotypal Personality Disorder http://www.ptypes.com/schizotypalpd.html An amateur Christian theologian's notes on Schizotypal, cited 10+ sources Books Links to Amazon but please try to utilize your local libraries if doable because this is spendy!! Schizotypal Personality by Adrian Raine, Todd Lencz, Sarnoff A. Mednick Paperback revised 2006, Hardcover not since '95 Please post an entry with any other links, information, resources, etc about SPD. | ||
| Interests: | 42: agorophobia, alcohol, alogia, anti-social, anxiety, anxiety attacks, auditory hallucinations, clairvoyance, cluster a, conspiracies, conspiracy theories, delusions of grandeur, depression, disorientation, drinking, family mental illness, fuck the ducky example, hypergraphia, ideas of reference, insomnia, kleptomania, magic, mental breaks, metaphors, odd beliefs, positive schizotypal features, pot, sad, schizophrenia in the family, schizotypal, schizotypal personality disorder, schizotypy, seasonal affective disorder, shamanism, shizotypal personality, skizotypal, social anxiety, spd, speechlessness, stressed out, substance use, telepathy | ||
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