The wikipedia stuff is probably the best possible thing you could have linked me!
Of course I'd just quote it but I apparently need 10 posts on here to put links in my post.
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You mentioned schizoid personality type. Do you mean introversion? (Introverts just like a lot of solitude. They like interacting with people too, just in smaller amounts than some other people. Interacting with others can be exhausting in large amounts, while solitude is refreshing. Introverts are probably more likely to have hobbies they can do by themselves.) I've noticed that many introverted people end up with the idea that something is horribly freakish and wrong with themselves just because they are introverted... even though it's an incredibly normal personality trait with about 50% of the population being introverted. (It seems like they get their anti-introvert ideas because their parents or other important people in their childhood were extroverted and criticized them for having introvert preferences.) Shyness, social anxiety, and schizoid PD all involve some degree of fear; they can occur with or without introversion. If you feel like introversion is a problem and describe it to the mental health folks like it's a problem, they might start thinking along the lines of schizoid PD.
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No no trust me I know the difference. I see being introverted as a personal win since a lot of my interests go along well with it. I took an official personality test at my therapist's behest and it showed my most prominent personality type as being schizoid. Its not bad or anything I just mentioned it in case it helped with diagnosis.
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Even though the diagnostic criteria seems totally different, there is a tendency for ADHD to be really really similar the "high functioning" forms of autism spectrum disorder (and Asperger's syndrome). Since you (possibly?) have ADHD, consider anything I say about autism in this post to apply to you.
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It has been suggested that I may have Asperger's syndrome since I used to have a heck of a time trying to figure out how to talk and act in society. I didn't even have a sense of humor till 5th grade. Used to think yo mama jokes were serious insults heh. A lot of my friends say my actions are all very exaggerated and it's because I learned most of my social norms from watching sitcoms when I was younger.
I also used to hate fiction. Much preferred non-fiction or biography for some reason. This was until I discovered an immersive non-kid's fiction named Maximum Ride. It sucked me in and changed my view forever.
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The word "empathy" can mean at least five different things, and those things get conflated stupidly often. - [1.]If you don't care about other people's feelings at all (e.g. you would be okay with making some innocent person suffer if it caused some kind of material benefit to you, and you wouldn't even feel bad), that's sociopathy.
[2.]If you have trouble (greater difficulty than most people have) identifying other people's current emotions based on their facial expression, tone of voice, etc, that's totally different from sociopathy. It's a common issue with autism (and therefore ADHD) and social pragmatic communication disorder.
[3.]If you have difficulty (greater difficulty than most people have) imagining other people's point of view, that also seems kind of autism-related.
[4.]If you accidentally do mean things because you go from idea to action without stopping to realize it's a bad idea, that's an impulse-control issue, probably from ADHD.
[5.]If you feel annoyed when someone is complaining incessantly about some issue that you can't sympathize with, that's probably normal.
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Hmm, its like a combination of 1, 2, 3, and 5(I used to have 4 as a problem as well, before the sitcoms). I probably only have friends because they think my point of view is hilarious. Not sure why. Bullying left a huge impression on me so it would be safe to say that I try to be nice to people for my own sake. I don't want to give them a reason to annoy me and having more friends can always be beneficial. If I see someone as a bully I will immediately stop being nice, and go to my real, callous self when talking to them. It seems to surprise a lot of people when they see me kind of 'switch off' my expression and speak in a monotone all suddenly and such.
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I'd consider anhedonia a symptom or feeling rather than a condition or diagnostic label. It's when you're so sad or apathetic (or angry) that you can't enjoy anything and therefore aren't interested in anything. If you lose interest in things you used to enjoy but you also become interested in new things around the same time, that's practically the opposite of anhedonia, and it's a common problem with ADHD.
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Well I would say you're right if I could go back to the things I lost interest in. However, once I lose interest in something its pretty much a done deal. I will always be bored when trying to do that something. Who knows? Maybe one day I'll suddenly go back to animating and programming. That'd be pretty cool, but I could only do it as a hobby.
Though this makes me curious. Does that mean the dose of Strattera I'm on isn't working? I'm currently on 80mg but I've been told it'll go up to 100mg if it doesn't work. I figured all it was doing was increasing attention span but if that isn't the case then do I need more or do I need a better medication?
Let's say I have homework. I do not enjoy doing homework, and typically I could only work on it for no more than 5 minutes (if I don't enjoy the subject) before getting too squeamish and having to eat or take some sort of break. With this dose of Strattera, that 5 minutes has increased to a good few hours. Probably at most I'd say it'd be 3 hours. However after that 3 hours I'm COMPLETELY zonked! I won't be able to do anything requiring mental strain for another hour after that IF I take a nap. With no nap it'll take 5 hours of break time MINIMUM. So is this stuff working or will I need a higher dose?
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If you've had several bad experiences with other people in certain situations (prank dates and cheating), it can cause some social anxiety or trust issues regarding similar situations. (It's the same way punishment works, except worse. Or, the same way PTSD works, except probably less bad.) Not sure if they'll even want to give you an actual diagnosis for that, but I believe social anxiety disorder can apply to certain situations only, even if you aren't anxious in all social situations.
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This, after a little therapy I quickly came to realize that I have a certain flashback in a set of specific circumstances that throws me into a searing hot rage. Literally cannot control my actions anymore. At the very least I will throw a large object at anyone nearby. This situation is one time in 7th grade, I got made fun of for the past 3 school years and was close to snapping from all of the bullying. They liked to call me Roscoe for reasons I can't express without releasing my real name. It annoyed the crap outta me and I would get pretty mad if anyone called me that, even at this moment.
So a substitute teacher is in and calls my name to tell whether or not I'm present. Everyone in the class starts saying "Oh his nickname is Roscoe, he loves that name, call him that." I constantly object to this claim, yet the sub STILL proceeds to call me that. I get angry and begin to yell at one of my classmates (him being the one advocating the name the most) and the sub tells me to go to the office. Everyone laughs, the laughter rings in my ears and I lose complete control. Threw my desk at the chalk board.
Later, in high school (junior year) I was presented with the same circumstances. Everyone was laughing at me because the teacher told me to stop doing something (in this case it was me talking even though everyone was talking) and everyone began laughing HYSTERICALLY, why? I don't know. But I flash-backed to that day in middle school and threw my metal stool at one of my bullys' leg (Yes, even then I had bullies, american school disciplinary system has harsher punishment for throwing a chair at a guy's leg than it has for smoking weed at school.) leaving a huge gash where the chair hit. I was extremely satisfied and had to drop out the next week because the secondary school they sent me to had a bully from my middle school in it.
Got my GED immediately after tho
His parents wanted me to apologize but I quickly turned that inside-out and made no apology since I'm totally okay with what I did, since I benefited from it by graduating a year early. (I wouldn't apologize even if I got put on trial lmao)
Anyway, would that count as PTSD or is it just a strange circumstance of my existence?