[chasms]

hello i've got a question! I've tried googling this but i get little to no results so i was hoping i could get some type of insight.

I think i may possibly have schizotypal pd or at least schizotypal traits, along with my bpd. It's a little weird because they kind of have some contradictory symptoms, but let me explain.

I exhibit all the criteria for bpd, and for stpd i experience about 7 out of 9 symptoms (5 are needed for a dx).
I experience ideas of reference, odd beliefs, bodily illusions and perceptual issues, odd thinking, paranoid ideation, lack of close friends and social anxiety that stays even when i know someone. I may have a constricted affect and inappropriate external emotional reactions but i cant tell.

im not sure how bpd and stpd look like when they coexist but im doing it, seemingly. i also experience transient psychotic episodes. these can either contain delusions about people plotting against me to believing that the world is a hologram.

does anyone else here experience this? i know no one here can diagnose me but does this sound more like bpd with schizotypal traits (how do they even define the tack on statement of "traits"?) or just bpd and stpd separately. my schizotypal symptoms are less impacting than my borderline symptoms, simply because they interfere less with my interpersonal experiences.

[Living Dead Guy]

I have no experience with s stpd dignoses but I've been dignosed with BPD and looking at STPD it would seem as if I fulfill some of those conditions as well.

Two things that I have found may help you.

The diagnoses differ in the attitude in that people who suffer Schizotypal Personality Disorder avoid relationships out of paranoid fear while people with Schizoid personality avoid relationships out of disinterest. We can add to this that people with BPD avoid relationships out of fear of abandonment and negative self perception.

Second, Most people will experience or exhibit a few of the above criteria from time to time. This does not make a person STPD.

Anyway its something to bring up with your therapists but I wouldn't worry about it just yet. There is a phenomenon called the medical school syndrome, it is a condition frequently reported in medical students, who perceive themselves to be experiencing the symptoms of the disease(s) they are studying. So always take self diagnosis with a grain of salt.

[Crazy Hitch]

Hi chasms

I hope you find the answers you are looking for.

Have you discussed this with your treating mental health practitioner?

Take care.

[chasms]

no I haven't mentioned it to my psychiatrist , I'm too scared to.

Originally Posted by Living Dead Guy

I have no experience with s stpd dignoses but I've been dignosed with BPD and looking at STPD it would seem as if I fulfill some of those conditions as well.

Two things that I have found may help you.

The diagnoses differ in the attitude in that people who suffer Schizotypal Personality Disorder avoid relationships out of paranoid fear while people with Schizoid personality avoid relationships out of disinterest. We can add to this that people with BPD avoid relationships out of fear of abandonment and negative self perception.

yeah I know, self dx is tricky. I have never self diagnosed though. I'm just kind of thinking stpd might be possible for me.

I do have paranoid fear, but also a disinterest in forming relationships? But at the same time I long for the attention and closeness but I just don't feel like putting time into it, or I'm afraid of abandonment and think lowly of myself. My paranoia about it is fear they're sent out to trick or hurt me ,for example. So I experience two different fears about relationships...

[waggiedog]

Hello and good evening Chasms. Oh hunny, you really MUST mention your fears and worries to your Psych Dr. The sooner you have a diagnosis, the sooner you'll be helped in the approiate way.
Good Luck, remember, it may not be as daunting or serious as you think. Your Psych Dr. would have delt with many cases just like yourself. HUGS. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx