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If the primary issue was delusions and not hallucinations that could open up more possibilities maybe.
I have read a lot about Schizoid Personality Disorder and as far as I know it's not associated with delusions in a meaningful way. Do you have the other Schizoid traits like blunted/flat affect, difficulty and low desire in regards to connecting with others, low motivation, prefer being alone, feel very little pleasure from anything, etc?
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All of the above, and to quite a degree.
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Schizotypal PD is more prone to magical thinking, outlandish ideas and paranoid thinking than Schizoid... it is definitely Schizoid PD and not Schizotypal PD that he diagnosed you with? Sorry if that sounds rude, I'm not accusing you of being wrong - it's just that people mix them up all the time and delusions seem much more relatable to Schizotypal... Schizoids are more know for being super-logical.
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I'm 100% sure it was Schizoid. I could see those two getting easily confused too. I feel like a Schizoid with positive symptoms, at this point of time, but before the main delusions went away, I'd have said more of Schizotypal at least or maybe even Schizophrenia.
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Even if it was schizophrenia I don't think it gets worse over time if you stay on meds but I could be wrong. There is a lot of good information online, wikipedia is a good place to start.
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This is actually pretty reassuring. I'll just have to make sure that I can stay on Latuda then, because it seems to really work. I'll have to do the homework, I think it would be helpful at this point.
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Atypical anitpsychotics are used to treat Schizoid PD, but it's only to help with the negative symptoms of flat affect, anhedonia, etc. since delusions are not part of schizoid PD. I also understand that schizophrenia usually has bizarre delusions. From wikipedia:
Bizarre delusion: A delusion that is very strange and completely implausible; an example of a bizarre delusion would be that aliens have removed the reporting person's brain.
Non-bizarre delusion: A delusion that, though false, is at least possible, e.g., the affected person mistakenly believes that he is under constant police surveillance.
Someone with schizophrenia would be more likely to have very outlandish delusions involving aliens, secret societies, evil robots, thinking they are Abraham Lincoln, etc. Paranoid ideas that are at least conceivable like someone trying to poison you or friends/family/coworkers conspiring against you would not be as much of a concern for being schizophrenic I think.
Next time you go to see him consider writing something out beforehand to let him read. Reading a few pages will only take him like 3 minutes - it's more effective for me because I am not very articulate at explaining things on the spot.
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It'd be hard for me to say if they were bizarre or not. To me they seemed not bizarre at all of course, I completely believed them the way I believed trees have green leaves. I believed I was a powerful being and like a special prophet sent by God to earth. I believed I could heal people (I had many visions of this playing like a tape in my head) and I was convinced that demons were targeting me. They attacked me in my dreams, and I could sometimes feel them when I was awake. I could feel them in certain buildings I went into, and had the power to sense the owners of buildings as whether they could be trusted or not etc. That was the core of it, really. There was more like how the TV would attack and try to implant powers into my mind (that was from the corporation who always followed me with cameras and spyware most likely which affected my social life 100% of the time, actually since I was a kid). I only heard a demon speak to me once for several minutes so not much for hallucinations.
I've never met with this psychologist but I think I'll give her a bit of what I've written here. That's a good idea, I don't know why I never did that before. I think it will help a lot because like you said, it's hard to say it on the spot.