For people with Schizotypal personality disorder?

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What type of stuff do you think about. Would you rather imaginate all day than deal with people? Do you find yourself thinking about a ton of stuff while other people are talking to you? Do you feel like you have to hide who you are? Is everyone always looking at you? Can some people read your thoughts? Can you put thoughts into others heads? Did you cause certain events to happen. DO believe in a world beyond our own. Have you figured out how the universe was formed? Any info on how you feel would be great.
I am diagnosed with bi-polar(about 13 years now). I am finally on the right medication to control the mania and irritability. Mood swings are not as bad either, but I am left with all this stuff and I have a hard time living in reality and I have intrusive paranoia. Any help? What do you think? I am sick of feeling different from everyone else and that I can never be who I really am. I don't even feel like my husband knows me.
I thank you both for your contributions. I have tried vitamin therapy before. It didn't work for me though, but there are a lot of people who are sucessfull with it.
I have been treated over the course of 12 years. I have tried all the medications available, as well as cognitive therapy. I have had two hospitalizations. 2 mood disorder classes and have spent years researching Bi-Polar Ilness. I am diagnosed as Bi-Polar type 1, Rapid cycler, with mixed states. It is quite severe.
I have went without medication and I thought everything was fine, but it wasn't. I eventually was back in hospital. I finally found the right medication. I still have symptoms but they are manageble.
I don't drink alcohol. I am pretty healthy otherwise. Your symptoms are classic Bi-polar II. I have the same symptoms as you but at a level that can make it impossible to function. Sometimes I will think I am Jesus, I can fly, movie star. Cosmicly I believe I am very important. I don't sleep 4 days
It is a bunch of stuff really. But the meds help this. I am not as delusion to think I am rockstar or something. But I still get delusions. I believe I am an Empath, part of me tries to fight it, but it can't win. I have to hold all this stuff in just to get by in life without people thinking I am a wack Job. I really do believe that people are can see through me and read what I am thinking. I really do feel all these things and it is very hard to keep it all in. It is so hard. I guess I was just hoping to find someone who was living life the way I am.
But thanks, I really did appreciate your answers. Both of them were very knowledgable.
I was recently diagnosed with Bipolar II--also known as bipolar depression. I don't know how long I've had it, but the mood swings and depression got a bit worse as I moved into a higher-stress situation. It's been a struggle, but I'm learning to deal with them.
I'm not brave enough to try medication for it yet, or even sure if it'll help me, but I've noticed that my diet and vitamin intake does influence my mood. I've done some research and found that certain vitamins improve mental clarity and overall mood. There are lots of articles about this stuff online. Also, I've had to regulate my alcohol intake. When I get depressed, sometimes I turn to drinking, but that almost always makes me feel worse.

I don't know about reading thoughts or implanting suggestions into others' heads, but I do get very caught in my own head sometimes. When people talk, I get distracted and sometimes feel detached from reality. It seems like I'm thinking five or six things at once while trying to listen. On one level, I feel empathetic and people seem very readable, but on another level, I am afraid to interact with them and they seem very different from me. Almost as though I cannot relate at all.
At night, I have a hard time getting to sleep because my brain won't shut off. When I talk to people, sometimes I'm accused of jumping from topic to topic. Anytime someone poses a question or a subject, I want to approach it from every angle. There are so many ideas and trains of thought sparking at once, like a switchboard lighting up. It's hard to streamline/reconcile them.

My advice would be keep a journal of mood-cycles. I notice that some of my cycles are perpetuated by hormones. Try not to go too deep in exploring the piths of depression or manic episodes. Ruminating is not healthy. Just write down how you feel, what you're thinking about, and--if you feel negatively or extremely introverted/introspective (which isn't bad in small doses, but being that way too much isn't good)--try to work your way out of the box. Remind yourself that there are a lot of people who go through the same thing. Also, it helps me to remember that even if I'm abysmally depressed one day, I WILL feel better later.

Learn your ol' standbys. Figure out what puts a smile on your face or at least makes you feel safe/better when it feels like the walls are closing in. For me, there are songs and movies and funny pictures that lift my mood. Sometimes, I don't want to be around people because I don't feel confident, but getting myself to laugh/smile or feel secure helps tremendously.

If your issue with reality is interacting with people, sometimes it helps just to sit in a room--either with people you know or with strangers in a public place--and do something else. Write in a notebook, read, text, etc., just BE there. I like to sit and play on my laptop in the living room while my roommates watch TV. Observe people. When I feel like I've suddenly forgotten how to interact with people, I watch them work their social skills and feel more comfortable. I get really anxious around groups, but sometimes it helps me to remember that most people are so caught up in their own lives/schedules/problems, they don't notice the things one is most critical about oneself.

Are you creative/artistic? I like to channel my winding imagination into art and writing. That way, if I happen to spend the day lost in thought, I have something to show people and I feel like I accomplished something. If anything, find art you can relate to. That helps me feel less alone.

As cheesy as it sounds, everyone is different from everyone else. Not everyone's mind works the same. If that were the case, no great advancements would be made and things would be horribly boring.

Keep dreaming. I hope things work out for you. :)  (+ info)

Do people with schizotypal personality disorder get worse with time??

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My ex hsband has it. He refuses to get an y help either and he seems like he's gotten 10 times worse in the last year alone. His appearance has really gotten worse(dirty clothes, smells, doesnt brush his hair) and his hygeine is disgusting, and he acts like this is normal for him. It sounds terrible, but I'm embarrassed to take him out in public cause he looks like a bum..not to mention if he talks to a stranger, he talks about some off the wall topic that comes out of nowhere, and he ends up getting strange looks..He can't hold a decent job (he's working as a cab driver now), and lives in an old run down trailer, alone of course, with no tv, furniture, etc..to him, this is normal, but he's always lived like this (he's 36 years old)...He as no ambition whatsoever..he doesnt get along with anybody cause he's paranoid of people, hence the reason he has no friends other than his family...just plain weird..what happens after these stages??
This is just how he is and how he will always be.
He isn't going to change, ever.
I don't think Schzoid/Schizotypal people get much worse but their basic personality isn't going to suddenly turn around and start being socially aware and outgoing. He will just continue to be eccentric. People with this personality disorder are just not into people and are very set in their own strange ways. I think it's great that your ex-husband even has a job, many with this disorder are recluses with no work!
I know it's hard to accept, but he is probably contented the way he is.
It will probably always be down to you to keep in touch, make contact, keep the friendship going, it is a good thing to do for someone in this position - to bother with them occasionally even though you probably feel like giving up & get very little thanks for your efforts. All I know is, he can't help it, he really can't help the way he is.... to have Schizotypal Personality Disorder is to have a lifelong mental illness. A psychologist could maybe help him with some of the social problems like his hygiene - but he has to want to go and talk to someone. Particularly, the hygiene problem can be a sign of bad depression, maybe he would benefit from an anti depressant???

It's a personal opinion, but I think the key for people with this disorder is letting them know it's okay to be "odd" and to live the way they want to. Not forcing them to be social, letting them do their own thing, live their own life, accepting themselves for what they are and not trying to fit into society's boundaries can help build confidence. The world out there is probably a very scary place to him, even if he won't admit it.  (+ info)

does my friend hav schizotypal personality disorder?

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he is really awkward in social situations and he will always talk about the strangest shit you can imagine, always blurting out random facts.
he has made up his own language which has taken him three years to create and he's obsessed with weapons. he has fantasies about going out and killing masses of people...

he is not schizophrenic or sociopathic

he went thru major trauma a few years ago when he found his neighbors brutally murdered with a golf club by their gardener and it still worries him.

he acts normally otherwise its just that he is not very good in social situations its like he's immature in that area

please help (and please do not make comments about him being crazy becuase he's not)
There could be a chance that he's slightly autistic. Or even a savant. Creating your own language is pretty impressive, and you say he blurts out random facts which is common for an autistic person. Autistic people are also underdeveloped in the social context and have trouble acting like most normal kids.

Although the fantasies of going out and killing masses of people does sound a bit schizotypal. It could be that the trauma, from seeing his neighbors dead, sent him over the edge. The reason he may act that way in group situations is because its his minds way of avoiding the image of the dead neighbors. A defense mechanism in other words.

Try to talk to him about the situation more and see how he responds to it. I wouldn't be able to diagnose him based on just these facts, I'd have to actually meet him and talk to him for a while. If you really want to know just talk to the counselor in your school and tell him that your friend has been acting very strange lately and that your worried.  (+ info)

I Think I Might Have Schizotypal Personality Disorder?

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I've been worried lately that I might, the symptoms are there...
I know it's a lot to read but please do...

I'm scared of other people, it's extremely hard for me to be around others. I try to show affection, but it always comes out wrong and makes people think I'm being mean or just being wierd. I don't have close friends, and if I do have friends I can't keep them around long, they always leave me or I withdrawl myself so much they just forget I'm there. I don't like social situations and I'm always trying to avoid them, which results in me sitting in my house away from others unless I'm forced to leave, and even then it feels awkward and I'm completely miserable.
I have beliefs that I find perfectly realistic but everyone says it's not normal and impossible. I'm constantly paranoid with the idea that someone can read my mind, so if I start thinking something I'll get scared and make myself think of something else or sing a song in my head, or think things like, "Well if someone was to steal the chapstick, I'm not saying me, no! Not me at all, but somebody else." - so they don't realize it's what I'm about to do. I always feel like there are cameras watching me, and I'm scared to say things out loud because I feel like people are recording me. And if I'm upstairs and home alone I wont leave my room because I think there are people are downstairs waiting to kill me.
I feel like I'm being watched by ghosts & aliens 24/7, even as I write this I'm really scared that they'll appear, and if walking at night or if I leave my window open I'm scared a vampire will attack me, and I'm scared that one day a witch will make me do something bad so I try not to make others mad, just in case they are one.
When I'm thinking of something I'll go into extreme detail, and when I say it out loud it makes sense to me, but other people don't understand. If planning something out I'm extremely circumstantial. And I always think of people with stereotypes. And sometimes I'll say things that I can understand, but others don't because I don't cleary explain it, and if they ask what I meant I'll just stop talking about it completely.
I'm obsessed with the sad things in my life, and constantly let myself think and hurt over them, and I always worry and wait for something bad that will happen in the future. I believe I'm physically deformed and always looking for the physical things wrong with me, and when I point them out to others they don't know what I'm talking about because they can't see it.
Sometimes I'll hear people walking around or banging pans and dishes when I'm home alone, and see shadows and people running past the windows, but nobody is there.

I really don't know, is it possible? Or am I just messed up in the head? =/
I also have fantasies of other worlds and people, where magical things can happen, and I'm constantly day dreaming of them.
I'd rather be in my own world then in reality.
- I don't read fantasy books...none of them sound like a "good read" by any means...all they're about is people falling in love and for some reason they can't be togethor, but they fight "the man" and are with each other anyways. Extremely pointless.

Not much of a movie person either. I don't have the attention span to sit through one....
Here are some symptoms of Schizotypal Personality Disorder:

- Ideas of reference (excluding delusions of reference)
- Odd beliefs or magical thinking that influences behavior and is inconsistent with subcultural norms (e.g., superstitiousness, belief in clairvoyance, telepathy, or "sixth sense"; in children and adolescents, bizarre fantasies or preoccupations)
- Unusual perceptual experiences, including bodily illusions
- Odd thinking and speech (e.g., vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, overelaborate, or stereotyped)
- Suspiciousness or paranoid ideation
- Inappropriate or constricted affect
- Behavior or appearance that is odd, eccentric, or peculiar
- Lack of close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives
- Excessive social anxiety that does not diminish with familiarity and tends to be associated with paranoid fears rather than negative judgments about self.

I strongly think you have Schizotypal Personality Disorder, but i'm not certain. To confirm this, it's best to talk with a doctor. They can help you much more, however you cannot be officially diagnosed with a personality disorder until you are 18+. You can also do more research about this disorder on this website:
http://psychcentral.com/disorders/sx33.htm

Good luck & best wishes*
-Kay  (+ info)

Do you think i have Schizotypal personality disorder?

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ok, so i im 17 and all of my life i have had trouble communicating with other people and have never really have had friends, until now so i guess i was a loner. so i guess that i can say that im also an annoying person. for example, i cant really keep a conversation that doesnt interest me or if i do i say something stupid and end up being annoying. i also think of the most random things and do think and doubt things for example, i think of a random spongebob episode and come home and it episode is playing without any knowledge of me knowing about it, its happend to me many many times.
sorry, i do like meeting new people, its just that i cant commuicate properly and i get annoying and they leave... but yeah my mind works in the most random things.. i am also unusually gifted at Physics.
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What personality disorder copies others, has anger issues and doesn't admit when they are wrong?

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So I know two people who does have these qualities in our family. They imitate others and are downright selfish. They don't seem normal compare to others. Does anyone what personality disorder this is? I need to know.
Based on the tiny amount of information, no one could tell you. It is a probably a cluster B personality disorder (either Borderline Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder), but what you're describing could also be symptomatic of Antisocial Personality Disorder.

You should never try to receive a diagnosis from someone who is not a professional, but I know how it feels to be almost dead certain that somebody has something. Provide a few more details and I (or others) could probably be a lot more helpful.  (+ info)

Personality disorders: Would you consider everyone to have some personality disorder?

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I'm curious on what others would say.
Do you believe everyone has a personality disorder?
Or, would you say that only some of the population has a personality disorder?
i think everyone has personality faults, but not disorders.

but then again whos to say someone has a fault in there personality.. coz there is no one deffiniion or a 'normal personality'

whos knowsss..
lol  (+ info)

Why are Borderline Personality Disorder people so good at making people become infatuated with them?

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People with Borderline Personality Disorder seem to have a talent for making people very quickly become infatuated/obsessed with the Borderline (I won't use the word love).

How is it that they have this "talent"?
There are different types of behavior with BPD. There are those who predominently act out (raging) and those who act in (cutting) and there is a continuum with sufferers somewhere on a spectrum - low functioning (prone to drug use and poor societal function, crime, and hospitalization) and high functioning (can hold down a job and "appear" normal to people not close - like family - to the BPD.) Higher functioning BPDs almost universally deny that they have a problem. My opinion of higher functioning BPDs who predominently act out is that they lack a conscience and are self absorbed.

If a BPD is higher functioning and intelligent, they often have the ability to "read people" pretty well. They can also be extremely adept at manipulation. It's very easy to not understand the manipulation, especially when everyone else around (i.e. not family) seems to think well of the BPD. The manipulation and the lack of insight from others can make the non-BPD doubt their own instincts.

At the core of all BPD behavior is fear of abandonment and great difficulty dealing with their feelings.

CONTROL is at the core of effective, manipulative BPDs. It's a sick game, but it gets played by many women. BPD is the most prevalent personality disorder and yet most people have never hear of it. Statistics show that just about everyone interacts with a BPD at work or school and is completely oblivious.  (+ info)

What type of personality disorder is it when someone feels the need to argue about meaningless issues?

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I'm talking about someone who gets a false sense of strength and confidence by being argumentative and annoying others by being contrary for no reason.

My guess is that their continuous arguing hides the fact that they lack intelligence and substance, and it also hides how deeply insecure they are.

These types are obviously mentally ill, and I avoid them when I can. When you are forced to work with them though, what are they best responses to tell them when they launch into one of their delusions? Also, which personality disorder or other diagnosis would describe them?
One answer is paranoia but the other is they have too much time on their hands to think about nonsense.

Another answer is they are grown up unhappy or they are not happy in their personal lives.

When a person becomes happy in their personal life you and them will notice a change for the better. It's sad but true.  (+ info)

What personality disorder could cause a grown adult to mimmick others, like an annoying child?

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A middle aged relative of mine repeats sentences he hears someone say on tv, as if making fun of them, and the other day walking down the street and mimicked, loudly, a passerby who coughed. I'm not even sure if he knows he's doing it. He gets defensive when I ask him why he does it. He also mutters to himself a lot...in public, and is slow minded. Is he just odd or could this be a personality disorder?
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Knowledgeable answers, only, please
yes he's is odd♦  (+ info)

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