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Old Jul 05, 2017, 07:08 PM
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Yes, but I blame it on the schizo-, not the -affective. It can also be part of a PD (including schizo- ones). If it's really chronic and severe it's likely schizoaffective disorder or schizophrenia. If it's just because you have had bad experiences doing fun things (because they cause extreme, relatively short-lived instability), it could be BPD (or similar PDs).

But it's all psychotic. Negative symptoms. Unless it is an ASD, but in theory (mine and those of quite a few theorists/researchers/clinicians; there's not really a consensus about it) that can't co-occur with BP or any psychotic disorder (nowadays it's no longer considered to be a psychotic disorder but a mood disorder, but that's bollocks..., basically).

People with ASD generally want to be more sociable but they also have had bad experiences due to difficulties picking up on emotions (by association and intuition). People with schizo-* don't want to do much of anything. We really have chronic anhedonia (even when manic it's not about pleasure; it's self-transcendence, losing oneself, not caring about oneself). To a degree.
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