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...They view themselves as alien or outcast, and this isolation causes pain as they avoid relationships and the outside world.
People with schizotypal personalities may ramble oddly and endlessly during a conversation. They may dress in peculiar ways and have very strange ways of viewing the world around them. Often they believe in unusual ideas, such as the powers of ESP or a sixth sense. At times, they believe they can magically influence people's thoughts, actions and emotions.
In adolescence, signs of a schizotypal personality may begin as an increased interest in solitary activities or a high level of social anxiety. The child may be an underperformer in school or appear socially out-of-step with peers, and as a result often becomes the subject of bullying or teasing.
Schizotypal personality disorder symptoms include:
Incorrect interpretation of events, including feeling that external events have personal meaning
Peculiar thinking, beliefs or behavior
Belief in special powers, such as telepathy
Perceptual alterations, in some cases bodily illusions, including phantom pains or other distortions in the sense of touch
Idiosyncratic speech, such as loose or vague patterns of speaking or tendency to go off on tangents
Suspicious or paranoid ideas
Flat emotions or inappropriate emotional responses
Lack of close friends outside of the immediate family
Persistent and excessive social anxiety that doesn't abate with time
Schizotypal personality disorder can easily be confused with schizophrenia, a severe mental illness in which affected people lose all contact with reality (psychosis). While people with schizotypal personalities may experience brief psychotic episodes with delusions or hallucinations, they are not as frequent or intense as in schizophrenia.
Another key distinction between schizotypal personality disorder and schizophrenia is that people with the personality disorder usually can be made aware of the difference between their distorted ideas and reality. Those with schizophrenia generally can't be swayed from their delusions.
Originally posted by satron
I don't believe many people have personality disorders. First off, to have a personality disorder, you have to have tenants to your personality that hamper your ability to function normally in society, and what that entails could be debated without much of a conclusion.
To me, the type of people that don't fit in society are the violent, murder, rapist, types.
Being eccentric isn't a disorder. Thanks to Hollywood, different is strange, but it's not a disorder.
Originally posted by Deetermined
reply to post by satron
I disagree.
I think there are plenty of functioning people in the world who are suffering from narcissistic personality disorder.
Originally posted by Epirus
Originally posted by satron
I don't believe many people have personality disorders. First off, to have a personality disorder, you have to have tenants to your personality that hamper your ability to function normally in society, and what that entails could be debated without much of a conclusion.
To me, the type of people that don't fit in society are the violent, murder, rapist, types.
Being eccentric isn't a disorder. Thanks to Hollywood, different is strange, but it's not a disorder.
Your reading comprehension is lacking or you only read 2 lines from the OP. I agree it's very rare(as I stated in the OP) but it does exist and it's beyond just eccentric. ex.) The earthquake in Haiti happened because I meditated and imagined a great earthquake. I caused the earthquake!edit on 13-6-2012 by Epirus because: (no reason given)edit on 13-6-2012 by Epirus because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Klassified
But I AM God, and I AM willing to answer your questions. ...No! he's not...Yes!! I AM.
Honestly, some of these symptoms sound like catch-all's, so anyone can be named "Schizotypal" if it suits the Doctors agenda.
By their definitions, more than half the world is schizotypal.
Originally posted by satron
Originally posted by Epirus
Originally posted by satron
I don't believe many people have personality disorders. First off, to have a personality disorder, you have to have tenants to your personality that hamper your ability to function normally in society, and what that entails could be debated without much of a conclusion.
To me, the type of people that don't fit in society are the violent, murder, rapist, types.
Being eccentric isn't a disorder. Thanks to Hollywood, different is strange, but it's not a disorder.
Your reading comprehension is lacking or you only read 2 lines from the OP. I agree it's very rare(as I stated in the OP) but it does exist and it's beyond just eccentric. ex.) The earthquake in Haiti happened because I meditated and imagined a great earthquake. I caused the earthquake!edit on 13-6-2012 by Epirus because: (no reason given)edit on 13-6-2012 by Epirus because: (no reason given)
Well, your comprehension is worse, because I laid out what I think a PD should entail, and schizotypal is an "eccentric disorder", and I fail to see how that deems them unfit for society.
*sticks tongue out*
What about truthers? Are they "eccentric"?
People that believe in the NWO? Are they "eccentric"?
What about people that believe in God? Are they "eccentric"?
Most of these people function well in society regardless of their belief.
Does it occur to you the implications are for labeling all these people for having "eccentric beliefs" as people that don't function well in society, because that is what the label is for.
I don't agree with the labeling, seems like there is more than they are willing to admit: "We really don't know, but anyways..." Since when is it a part of someone's personality to experience episodes of psychosis and hallucinations? Shouldn't they be schizophrenic? I never heard of a schizophrenic personality disorder?
Maybe you should swirl that in your brain a little better.
edit on 13-6-2012 by satron because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Epirus
Schizotypal personality disorder can easily be confused with schizophrenia, a severe mental illness in which affected people lose all contact with reality (psychosis). While people with schizotypal personalities may experience brief psychotic episodes with delusions or hallucinations, they are not as frequent or intense as in schizophrenia.
Another key distinction between schizotypal personality disorder and schizophrenia is that people with the personality disorder usually can be made aware of the difference between their distorted ideas and reality. Those with schizophrenia generally can't be swayed from their delusions.
Originally posted by Iamschist
Please define normal for me. There is a veritable soup of personalities and the disorders they are prey to on here, what is your point?
Unless a person is highly dysfunctional or a danger to themselves and/or others they have as much right and ability to post here as anyone else. imho
Originally posted by Iamschist
reply to post by Epirus
Oh sorry I was under the impression you wanted a chance to throw your brain out there and see what stuck and what ran down the wall.
You know how we are, we reply, what would your life be if we didn't? It is a good thread. I understand the concerns behind it.
Not going to ask YOU to define normal again!
Originally posted by Epirus
Do you remember threads about a galactic federation of aliens telling a poster that they are the one to send a message to the world? or perhaps posts from other members proclaiming they may have caused natural disasters inadvertently? Maybe even posts from users claiming they were sent here to inform the world of their true existence because they were born as an "indigo child"? Posts like that often times are written by people suffering from either schizotypal personality disorder or narcissistic personality disorder. A lot of the symptoms of those 2 disorders match nicely with the "symptoms of an indigo child"edit on 13-6-2012 by Epirus because: (no reason given)