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Old Apr 04, 2014, 07:30 PM
Anonymous24680
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Any time. Just remember that I'm not an expert of any kind - just a crazy person who took abnormal psychology and likes to read about mental disorders, haha. But I have thought a lot about whether I'm schizoid so have researched it a lot and I know for sure Schizoid PD has no complex, ongoing delusions involved. But there are things like delusional disorder, schizophreniform disorder, Bipolar Disorder can cause psychosis, especially delusions of grandeur when manic like you have special powers or are god-like. But you would know if you were BPI because the mania and depression cycles would be noticeable to you.

Schizoids are known to often have rich fantasy worlds as a kind of escape from reality, but I think they don't have trouble separating the fantasy world from reality generally. Some experts think that Schizoid PD can develop into schizophrenia I think, like people with SPD are more prone to develop schizophrenia, but I don't if that's proven really.

Schizophrenia would most likely onset from 18-25, I think schizophrenia symptoms before that are pretty rare and almost unheard of before 10 or 11 (you did say you had delusion issues when you were a kid right?). Plus you did mention that your delusions largely went away on their own... like you were very delusional then mostly came back to reality without meds or anything and from then on only have minor bouts of delusional thinking. That seems odd for Schizophrenia from what I know, because I think there's very little chance of it improving on it's own like that - like you can't just "get it together" to that degree without being medicated. If anything I think a schizophrenic would be prone to go deeper into their delusions the longer time went on without being medicated.

But then again what do I know Definitely go on a more active schizoid forum and/or a schizophrenia forum and research on your own. I'm pretty schizoid-ish but I'm not so sure I have schizoid PD even though I have flat affect, can't related to people and all of that. Only thing I know for sure is that I'm crazy and can barely function
Thanks for this!
Rand.