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Default Feb 01, 2015 at 11:54 AM
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Default Feb 01, 2015 at 12:45 PM
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maybe schizotypal personality disorder is less commonly diagnosed. it's not one most people understand or necessarily have heard of, therefore they would be less inclined to discuss it.
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Default Feb 05, 2015 at 10:37 PM
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In my experience, like 8888 stated, it is a less common diagnosed personality disorder. When I started group, I had to explain to the group what it is because it was unheard of. When I first joined PC I posted a similar question and I only have come across one Schizotypal who I keep in decent enough contact with.

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Default Feb 21, 2015 at 01:27 AM
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I'm a schizotypal as I have been diagnosed four years ago.
I agree that most people don't understand us though. We come off as quite eccentric and eerie. It's people who are extremely terrifying though.
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Default Feb 25, 2015 at 11:33 AM
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My psychiatrist told me informally I was likely to be one. Though she sort of laughed saying those are DSM labels useless for the context I'm.
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Default Feb 28, 2015 at 09:34 PM
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Why do I, personally ,believe that no one posts in this forum? The answer is very simple and complex at the same time, in the way that I perceive it. I`m about to turn 30 years old next month and the term 'personality disorder' was unknown to me until I was scouring the internet about mental illness after being prescribed an antidepressant and having a bad reaction to it. To make a long story short, the medication I had been prescribed gave me some kind of weird insight, as you usually get when high on some kind of illegal substance. I brought up a list of all known mental illness and was reading through them all, in which I have about 80% of, according to the symptoms, and I was reading about schizoid personality disorder in particular, and felt like I was reading a description of my life. Now that I can put in perspective these things which I thought were personality traits limited to myself, in other words that I was weird, I have a new understanding of myself...just knowing what is wrong with me. I always sought treatment for social anxiety and depression, but when I came across someone else with social anxiety, I said "if they have social anxiety, I wish that I had that." In reality I suffer from an extreme pain in which I cannot escape. I want no part in being around other people, but in order to do that, I need other people. In other words, I am deathly afraid of a society in which I need in order to protect myself from it. I need society to help me, in order to have the resources to say. hey "I`m so anxious, let me get away from you." I hope someone else relates to this, however unorganized or strange it my be.
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Default Mar 18, 2015 at 11:08 PM
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In my experience, like 8888 stated, it is a less common diagnosed personality disorder. When I started group, I had to explain to the group what it is because it was unheard of. When I first joined PC I posted a similar question and I only have come across one Schizotypal who I keep in decent enough contact with.

Did you have any concerns that you wanted to address?

I believe this to be the case. It's far less known compared to other disorders, I believe it's less commonly diagnosed, and honestly, the nature of the "disorder" itself I think makes it less common for us to 1) Seek out help from professionals and 2) Want to come onto a forum and talk to other people about it.

Honestly, I've been pretty screwy for a very long time, and only last year, after two decades of knowing, since I was a child, that I am very, very different from others, did I decide I wanted to join an online community and talk about my internal world to anyone.
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