Schizotypal Personality Disorder Puns

Some of my symptoms of ASD looks so similar to Schizotypal Personality Disorder.

I have unusual fantasies, and the way I interact with others is odd. The way I see some illusions seems distorted.

I have been called "strange' and "weird" on some occasions.

I am diagnosed with schizophrenia but I have done some research & feel like I heavily relate to schizotypal personality disorder.

I specifically relate to the lack of interest in forming social connections & feeling uncomfortable with the idea of ever being in a relationship. I have never had interest in that & am much happier alone.

I'm also wondering what the difference is between magical thinking & delusions because they seem somewhat similar although maybe the former is just a less severe version of the latter.

Thanks for the insights!

Edit: I should explain a bit more about me. I've had "magical thinking" since I was about 7. Believing God & other people could read my mind. Believing that ghosts were around me all the time & I could sense their presence. Believing in basically all things related to spirituality & shamanism, interests in parapsychology, the occult, the list goes on.

In 2015 I was under a great deal of stress & at 21 years old I started hearing voices. Since that time my delusions have been largely based on having a special insight into the universe, feeling like the universe would communicate signs to me by personalising my music & feeling like the whole label of schizophrenia is given to gifted individuals to throw them off course. Not that different to how I felt when I was a kid.

The only thing that makes me think maybe it is really schizophrenia is the fact that I hear voices & the fact some of my delusions have landed me in hospital but I would still appreciate any insight you guys have.

I just wanna ask some questions, but in private. I swear I'll only talk about that matter,I just have to talk to someone who experiences what I do. Please ,please comment if anyone is willing to answer my questions through messages.I really need help and thank you.

**Male/28/Diagnosed with Schizophrenia at age 24 **

I was always a highly intelligent kid but I struggled socially & preferred to be alone most of the time. I had a vivid imagination so even when I was alone I never really felt like I was & I would spend hours playing in these elaborate fantasy worlds inside my head & I had a whole range of imaginary friends throughout my childhood & my teenage years.

(Age 4) My first memory of something out-of-the-ordinary happening was when I was age 4 & it was night time & I followed a black dog through my house & into the kitchen before witnessing the dog evaporate into thin air. My family was awake and all the doors were locked so a dog couldn't get in or out & nobody else seen it.

When I was age 4 I also remember having out of body experiences when I lay down to go to sleep. It happened so often that when I got into my bed I would lie really still to try and make it happen. If I lay there long enough & stared at the ceiling I would eventually feel myself rotating/spinning in the bed & then rising up out of my body towards the ceiling & then continuing to rotate/spin around. I later learned that this practice is called astral projection & I have managed to do this numerous times as an adult.

(Age 7) When I was age 7 I started to worry that other people could read my thoughts. I also worried that God was aware of every bad thought I had which caused me to become obsessed with only having good thoughts. I started to feel what I can only describe as this existential dread & I worried that I was the only real person that existed & that my conscious experience was somehow superior or more real than others.

(Age 8) When I was age 8 years old I became preoccupied with ghosts. I would constantly feel a presence behind me which caused me to look over my shoulder all the time. But sometimes the presence would put so much fear into my that I would be too scared to look & I would feel my body freeze. I became fixated on the idea that ghosts were everywhere and we could feel them but not see them & this obsession lasted roughly a year before I moved on from it.

(Age 10) When I was age 10 I was gifted a book called Power Animals which was all about shamanism & meeting your animal spirit guide. I started exploring all things spirituality at this time & would read all about things such as indigo children, spirit guides, the spirit world

AVPD describes me perfectly; I'm in tears reading most people's experiences in this sub; how much I can relate. Although STPD has some similarities, especially regarding the social aspect, I can't honestly identify myself with other symptoms. My need to isolate and avoid people or making important decisions stems largely from feeling inadequate, scared of making mistakes, fear of people's judgment. I'm a chronic people's pleaser; the need to be certain that I'll be liked has defined me my whole life. I'm in the process of asking for a second opinion on my diagnosis, but at the same time, I'm really scared to be invalidated. Has anyone else been diagnosed with STPD or a different diagnosis before the doctor concluded on AVPD? I'm really scared that perhaps I'm not getting the proper treatment to help me recover or improve quicker.

Hey everyone, I just learned a million things on my journey to solve my chaotic sense of identity and I feel like I have found a way to sort of articulate a solution, and I am very curious to get feedback from fellow Schizotypal people. This all leads to me trying to reach Schizotypal people on YouTube with this video: https://youtu.be/lF8jrbleQ20 but I will explain in writing:

So in that YouTube video I make a desperate attempt to sell it as having some important strengths. My identity was basically always attached to being a Myers-Briggs INFP all my life especially since people of that type almost always consider themselves quirky and socially anxious. A bit deeper into my adulthood it started seeming like I probably had Autism Spectrum Disorder, the main component of that being that me being a loner and “weird” totally pervaded my life even if some people thought I was good at socializing on occasion. The combination of being on the autistic spectrum and an INFP really worked because I definitely fit the stereotype of abusing metaphors and sometimes wildly overly-abstract speaking and writing, thought often that intrigued people instead of alienating them. I have always been very stubborn about social conventions as well and having a generally unkempt look is basically a given for me.

But something was always missing with that, like my appetite for solitude just kept getting more and more intense, and I think I did start feeling more and more alien to the social worlds orbiting me. Recently it’s kind of reached critical mass and I needed to sort of stem the tide of doubt that my super-solitary lifestyle was giving me, which finally made it obvious that I am Schizotypal, and having Ideas of Reference really made it clear. I am a generally likeable person, but honestly it’s not clear if I am really capable of a long-term romantic relationship. Like I yearn for one, but nothing could be more obvious than a romantic relationship basically being a guarantee of a crazy amount of pain at some point in the future.

This all sounds pretty bad, but, I guess my solution is really to just maintain something of an intellectual life with psychology and philosophy in addition to spending too much time playing videogames, and now writing to people on the internet. I also think it does actually help to imagine it as a sort of personality type, and at some point I will probably do a video about how perhaps we just need to treat people

If someone were to interpret a harmless event as a message to cause harm and pain and they lacked remorse and impulse control, wouldn't they pose a danger to their community?

STPD basically means I talk a lot in my head to people that don’t exist, or I create scenarios in my head of people I know basically I create realities and worlds in my head, It also means I don’t have many friends IRL, Twin peaks has changed my life, it’s comforted me, it’s my own little world I can escape into at any time, except it’s real and makes me feel happy that it is, something I can share even though the few friends I do have do not like it, it doesn’t matter. It’s there and it’s my world I can escape to.

With the recent decipherment of the 340, it is clear that Zodiac (the writer at least) consistently, in at least three communications, mentioned collecting slaves for the afterlife. This as I understand it is called Schizotypal "ideation" or obsessive thinking about magical bizarre fantasies.

Before someone marches out the old "but people with mental illnesses are less likely to be criminals." I understand and agree, but as pointed out by another post (with info from this source) and by the Slenderman stabbing case in Wisconsin, clearly when someone with schizophrenia or schizotypal personality disorder becomes violent or fixates on something that is violent, that violence is marked by very bizarre behavior.

If he did have this kind of mental illness, would it have presented itself around others in his life? Would he have been able to hide this from people around him? Did Arthur Leigh Allen or any of the main suspects have this kind of disease. I know Ross Sullivan was diagnosed with schizophrenia, but were any others?

for a while now i have been diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder and average functioning autism but now i finally become comfortable with sharing it, i have symptoms like hallucinations and am prone to psychosis.

I am 25yo and in therapy.

My therapist considers my BPD to be in the recovery phase.

Do you know anyone else with those disorders? How have they been doing in terms of getting a new family started? Can it be done with my disorders? What are the odds?

I take Invega Trinza, by injection to the hip, every 3 months, so I consider myself mentally stable in the meantime. At least moreso than before I started taking it.

Mental illness. That voice in your head, the dark companion in your life, hearing and seeing things that aren’t there. Why does all of it exist? We all have problems, but there’s always someone who has it worse than us. We all have battles to fight, but what’s more terrifying than battling your own mind every single day?

My name is Noah Williams, I’m a psychiatrist and recently I’ve been given something, a gift, that takes it all away and today I will be introducing to you a former patient of mine that had a disorder only 3% of the population has and it’s most common among males.

Schizotypal personality disorder is usually characterized by social anxiety, thought disorder, paranoid ideation, derealization, transient psychosis and often unconventional beliefs. There are nine symptoms that are present in the literature and a person has to have at least five of them in order to be diagnosed with STPD. One of the symptoms that is very interesting to observe in people with STPD is called ‘magical thinking’, where they create whole new worlds inside their head and some of them, for the most part of the day, live there.

Usually people with STPD don’t think they have the disorder at first, they just think of themselves as being eccentric, odd or highly superior to others.

Meet Trevor Adams.

“Trevor, how are you? It’s nice to meet you. Sit down, please.”

“Hey, doc. Thanks for having me, I’m a bit nervous…”

“There’s no need for that, Trevor, it’s alright. So, let’s do your anamnesis, is that alright with you?”

“Hey, doc. Can you hear that? It’s the sounds of bombs falling.”

“No, I don’t hear them, Trevor. It’s okay if you hear them, though. Do you want to tell me more about why you are here today?”

“Yeah… Sure… Sorry I do this thing with my hands, where I need to draw the infinity symbol in the air…”

“It’s okay, Trevor, it’s alright. You can do it as much as you like.”

“Yeah, so anyway, I was diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder about seven years ago, my dad was a schizophrenic, so he just passed me this. Well, it’s better than schizophrenia, anyway. So you know, I never really go out much because if THEY say that I should not go outside, I will not go outside. I will go inside my mind and try to save the world. Hey doc, can you check outside and see if a black car is parked across the street from us? I had the impression I was followed on my way here.”

“Sure, Trevor. Nope, there’s nothing there. Come and see.”

“Yeah, they must have left, I

So I'm Processing my childhood in therapy and my mother neglected me very badly. She was always extremely odd and pre-occupied with odd beliefs and was very detached from people. She recently admitted to me that she was once hospitalized and diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder when I was 4 but never sought treatment after she was released because she thinks, to this day, that she is fine mental health-wise and the diagnosis was incorrect. After researching it she 10000% has it and it explains so much of my childhood issues.

However I really wanted to find other people's experiences being raised by somebody with this disorder, was hoping for something similar to r/raisedbynarcissists but couldn't find anything. So if you had a parent with STPD please can you tell me your experience?

Does anyone know the relation between ASD and STPD? I know I have autism, but I also think I have Schizotypal traits as well as paranoia and dissociation ( but no delusions and very rare hallucinations).

Can these traits just be less common symptoms of the autism? I’ve heard from somewhere that you can’t have a STPD diagnosis if you have autism. Is this true?

First, sorry for my English, I'm hoping to improve. :) So I'm 21 and have been searching for an explanation for why I feel and behave this way. As I reached around 17-18 I recognised how different I am from others and especially started to recognize my serious problems regarding life (friendship, relationship, work, communication.)

So when I was a child I would not speak to anyone in kindergarten, would not even say anything when I was asked. I did understand everything they said but I would not respond. I also had serious anxiety as a child not only about kindergarten but also sleeping. I would be so damn anxious about not being able to sleep (though I remember I slept well most times..). I was also really afraid of ETs and sometimes I obsessed over them thinking they may take me. I don't actually know if it was a symptom or just a typical childish thing, but who knows. I daydreamed a lot about love, friendship, that helped me. I would stay in bed as long as I could. One of the reasons I'm making this post is that this maladaptive daydreaming is still going on and it's very complex.

During high school I had horrible social anxiety, I skipped school when I could and then felt depressed about it, had no friends. I even ridiculed myself with my way of dressing, which made me feeel even worse yet I felt I could not do it any other way. Looking back high school feels like the worst nightmare.

Also I was dating someone yeaars ago who I still ruminate about and whenever I do, I feel the deeeeepest depression, almost panicked when I think about that this person has moved on forever. The weird thing is that even though I was in love, I could not really bear with being close.

I have no communication skills. Someone speaks to me and I concentrate on their faces so badly, that sometimes I can't even understand what they say. I cut all friend contacts because I'm too ashamed, and too anxious (even they noticed) to hang out, ever. Yet I feel lonely, so it is really just so ambigous. I can't stop thinking about this person years later, and I feel like DYING and I can't stop the thoughts. I can't explain this but it does not get worse from here......

Now, at 21 never had a job (a job interview gives me SO bad anxiety, that it's almost intolerable), and I feel so depressed and not know whether I should leave college or not, but I'm way too anxious about it, and I have no money to live on my own, yet my relationship with my mother is toxic....

Do you think I have t

As I am writing this laying in bed I have just gone through one of my worser distortions of reality, dreaming for 2 hours as if I was in a light sleep constantly being woken up by my mind wanting to retake consciousness, I had been daydreaming multiple realities or what I would like to consider them; multiple possible time lines, yes I understand that this is not the case but I like the comfort of a sense of guidance.

I struggled to find myself and thought I was lying to myself as a kid about who I was, I thought everyone was like me, yet they outgrew my habits.

Enough pointless rambling on, when I am not in a false sense of reality I am highly functioning, with quite a remarkable memory and thinking— without sounding to egocentric. I even possess a decent amount of the qualities of a psychopath.

Ask me anything, I could write for days about my shallow life, but that’s the past. Ask some questions if you want

Notes: I’m pretty sure this isn’t against the rules, I checked.

And yes I have been properly diagnosed.

I’m now going to sleep for 8-9 hours if they are any replies I will answer them to my fullest capabilities.

Edit: can anyone say if there’s another community that would be intrigued by me, as I enjoy having a sense of belonging and being apart from everyday tasks and social conventions.

Should Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Paranoid Personality Disorder, be part of Schizophrenia Spectrum?

The symptoms of these disorders looks related to Schizophrenia

Symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder:

• Have an exaggerated sense of self-importance
• Have a sense of entitlement and require constant, excessive admiration
• Expect to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it
• Exaggerate achievements and talents
• Be preoccupied with fantasies about success, power, brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate
• Believe they are superior and can only associate with equally special people
• Monopolize conversations and belittle or look down on people they perceive as inferior
• Expect special favors and unquestioning compliance with their expectations
• Take advantage of others to get what they want
• Have an inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others
• Be envious of others and believe others envy them
• Behave in an arrogant or haughty manner, coming across as conceited, boastful and pretentious
• Insist on having the best of everything — for instance, the best car or office

Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder:

• An intense fear of abandonment, even going to extreme measures to avoid real or imagined separation or rejection
• A pattern of unstable intense relationships, such as idealizing someone one moment and then suddenly believing the person doesn't care enough or is cruel
• Rapid changes in self-identity and self-image that include shifting goals and values, and seeing yourself as bad or as if you don't exist at all
• Periods of stress-related paranoia and loss of contact with reality, lasting from a few minutes to a few hours
• Impulsive and risky behavior, such as gambling, reckless driving, unsafe sex, spending sprees, binge eating or drug abuse, or sabotaging success by suddenly quitting a good job or ending a positive relationship
• Suicidal threats or behavior or self-injury, often in response to fear of separation or rejection
• Wide mood swings lasting from a few hours to a few days, which can include intense happiness, irritability, shame or anxiety
• Ongoing feelings of emptiness
• Inappropriate, intense anger, such as frequently losing your temper, being sarcastic or bitter, or having physical fights

Symptoms of Paranoid Personality Disorder:

• Doubt the com

Hey everyone! I've watched Joker and Taxi Driver recently and read that schizotypal personality disorder could be possibly applied to both of the main characters of those films. When I googled other movies about schizotypal personality disorder, I couldn't find much. Does anyone have any suggestions for movies I could watch that have schizotypal characters or does anyone know of where to find a list of films like this?

If you're tired of being in general Schizo-spectrum servers where most don't understand many experiences, and you seek to find like minded individuals wherein that sort of experience is focal, then come join! we're starting a new community and hope this time it sticks.

https://discord.gg/Mwa7Bap

Nerotypical here. Somewhat aware of autism and it's effect on the brain and behavior. Listening to season 2 of serial podcast, I can't shake the feeling that Bowe Bergdahl, who the reporting is on, is not mental ill or suffering from "schizotypal personality disorder". I did some light googling and some of the descriptions of SPD sound like an autistic person not aligning with NT norms. Idk I guess I am just wondering if anyone in the this community had any knowledge or experience being diagnosed with SPD.

Why would they confuse it for a terminal disease?

so originally the thread title was gonna be the first paragraph below, however, i edited it out to remain more carefully implemented, so it's a long write up of my personal experiences, originally it came from a specific experience, and i added more info to reflect larger contexts, so please read the entire thing.

how do you deal with people making presumptuous negative, "positive" / shallow statements about you...where you put into a these unnecessary labels / boxes or stereotyped ways..., with lack of support / connection, while these people belittle you / and you're not able to reason with them, etc

i was wondering how you people deal with this bullshit that other people put onto you and if this has happened to you, where has it happened? for me, a lot of it has occurred in bits here and there from mental health groups / wellness centers where people with mental health conditions / mental illness(s) were at, of course, none of them had schizotypal personality disorder, and even if they did, i didn't find a good connection or rewarding experience.

there was one guy in particular a while back ( he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and regularly was taking medication ), we were sitting down close to one another, after i was finished talking about myself, then he proceeded on saying as he started smiling, i used to overthink things like you...., suggesting that my problems were like his in that i "overthink" things, when for me, it's no way shape or form like that and didn't relate at all to that guy and felt disgusted by him and didn't wan't to have a thing to do with people like him, but i sometimes have people do that with me, and i don't have anything to say back to them, other than just stare at them with a flat look..., like uh huh....i hear what you're saying, but your viewpoint is highly ignorant, flawed and wrong.

do note, i also mentioned "positive" in the title, because now it's the other extreme, some people make statements about me in an attempt to flatter me or try to artificially make me agree on something that is very shallow, and when i resist this and question their stupid viewpoint, they often bite their lips and become irritable in their facial expressions, and react in a way as if i'm the stupid, stubborn, childish and immature one, but i end up being the one suffering the bullshit and being taken advantage of, while they remain in a more superior position ( without trying ), and i have to always be the inferior / "odd" one out.

Hello everyone, I have a question. I was diagnosed with schizotypal several months ago, after self-diagnosing. A campus psychiatrist I had been seeing told me that he believed i had either schizotypal or schizoaffective bi-polar type after i told him about the diagnosis. The diagnosis occurred at a local counseling center that was recommended by someone after I had some problems in her class. I'm 24 (the diagnosis occured when i was 23), and I've always felt that there was something off and different about me that I hopelessly wanted to change to become like other people, but I could never figure out how to adequately to do that. However, after taking medication (low does of abilify and some adderall for adhd) for the first time in my life and spending time with friends who were concerned about me, I am feeling better and more normal than I have ever felt. I almost feel as if there's nothing wrong with me, even though I can still feel paranoid and very anxious at times. I feel a little guilty about the diagnosis because I self-diagnosed originally after a period of starting to smoke marijuana, and I'm wondering if I'm just high schizotypy and highly sensitive to substances but not actually full on schizotypal.

i'm hoping some day, maybe today, maybe it may be never, but that hopefully i can find another ISFJ individual who not only also have schizotypal personality disorder, but also to which of course i could relate to and be properly siding with, and who would likely have major depression as commorbidity, as i do not see any logical way that someone with StPD that is ISFJ would not automatically have depression coinciding with it. this is also factoring whether you'd take medication or not, it's simply whether there is an existence of ongoing depression that either is not being treated "properly" and / or you take or do not take any particular medication for it, be it psychiatric or not. so far, the existence of an ISFJ with schizotypal personality disorder in actual everyday forums and communities like these has been little to nothing, leaving mainly the other types, INTJ, INTP, INFP, INFJ, ENTP, which i didn't like or relate to their viewpoints / experiences.

even for in person groups, it wasn't any different. so far, there hasn't been any ISFJs in the ISFJ forum specifically who wanted to / or were willing to bump the other post i made a while back, relating to whether they have any personality disorders. It would be uncommon for this to happen, but just saying. after indicated my diagnosis of schizotypal PD and sharing some of my experiences. i only received responses from some ISFJs of course, to which i didn't relate to, and one in particular, to which i severely clashed with and had extreme envy and hatred towards. i'm eager to share some more information if i feel like there is someone who is open enough or attentive enough in asking good follow up questions or what have you.

Hello, I'm new to this sub. I have been in treatment for depression/different kinds of anxiety by a psychiatrist for little over 1 year now. Recently, I attended a meeting with other psychiatrists as well as my psychiatrist to help her with diagnosing me. Next day she called me and told me that they suspect that I have either Schizophrenia or Schizotypal personality disorder, and I don't know what to think, other than suspicion towards her. I think she's just desperate to get me off her back as I'm not showing much progression with her current treatment ways. I have had doomsday theories that I was in danger, had a lot of panic anxiety over weird things (mainly social places), very sensitive to sounds and my surroundings and I'm very introverted. But hearing voices is only something I experienced in short periods of time when I was much younger. I don't know what to think anymore. My world view is really pessimistic and I think that life is fundamentally a curse that we have no choice but to endure due to instincts. I have been to wards twice for overdosing on prescription medication and it was a terrible experience both time. Being locked up in a small space with strangers really triggers my anxiety. I was really scared of one of the woman nurses because she was really extroverted and wouldn't leave me alone, I had a panic attack after she gave me my night medication as I thought that she had poisoned me because I was letting her down or something. Sorry my this wall of text but I needed to get something off my chest and I didn't know where else to go.

I got diagnosed with SPD, Schizotypal Personality disorder. Basically my social anxiety is so bad that i dont develoo strong relationships or friendships because i feel that the actions or things I do and say cause people to hate me abd stop talking to me. I don't know how to deal with this, how to balance myself and prevent myself from thinking like this. It just happens naturally but i feel like it is controlling my ability to make friends or develop a strong love life. Is there any techniques that i should use to help me?

I don't know what to say!

When I decided to get an evaluation I knew I was going to come up depressed. But I have also been diagnosed with this. All the pieces fit, how my Nmom never let me have healthy friendships or relationships, the gaslighting, me being slightly out of touch with reality.

This is the first time in my life I'm so incredibly confused, and I don't have an opinion on something that's going on with me... And I don't know what I'm up against. Where do I find resources to study about this?

I recently commented on someone else's post about not knowing when I was dreaming and when I was awake sometimes, I'm guessing that's why! I was living in a different country for a few years, and I was so grounded, unfortunately I have had to move back and I have started feeling the lines between dreams and reality blurring again.

Most of my childhood I don't remember, so much of it I've been made to believe never happened...

I'm not a 100% sure why I wrote this post, just need some support I guess.

I'm thankful to this community, I am definitely saddened by the fact that so many of us are going through this, but I'm still thankful.

Cheers!

Hey folks, so we all know it isn't always particularly easy being an INFP, and nearly every INFP I have ever heard from would describe themselves as some level of quirky or weird as well as some level of social anxiety. Identifying as an INFP has been so great for me my whole life, but my extreme appetite for solitude has really, really caught up to me in recent times, and it caused me to start questioning if I have Autism Spectrum Disorder as a way to sort of explain away my relative social isolation and shunning of social convention.

Fast forward to recently, and it's because blaringly obvious that I am Schizotypal, not least because my loner status is getting unreasonable, and yet not many people agree that I am autistic, plus I have something called "Ideas of Reference." Add on top of that that some scale of being "weird" completely and totally pervades my life. Usually it's just "yeah, he's weird, but good weird," but that scales all the way up to convincing some coworkers that I am totally off my rocker. Well, I have come up with my own sort of solution that I want to get your thoughts on, and that is to sell Schizotypal as something with benefits that compares to being an INFP! I am a generally likeable person, but honestly it’s not clear if I am really capable of a long-term romantic relationship. Like I yearn for one, but nothing could be more obvious than a romantic relationship basically being a guarantee of a crazy amount of pain at some point in the future.

Some of this probably sounds pretty bad, but, I guess my solution is really to just maintain something of an intellectual life with psychology and philosophy in addition to spending a lot of time playing videogames, and now writing to people on the internet. I also think it does actually help to imagine it as a sort of personality type, and at some point I will probably do a video about how perhaps we just need to treat people like medicine, where the medicine doesn't always taste great and you don't want too much of it, but is ultimately necessary. And to that end, I’d like to invite you to check out my video as I am super curious to get thoughts from fellow Schizotypals or anxious/possibly-neurotic INFPs: https://youtu.be/lF8jrbleQ20