Just been diagnosed and i'm scared

i have just been diagnosed, really i meen like ten minutes ago and i am scared! Don't know why i am scared because i doesn't change anything....just lables me and gets me into treatment for another stupid mental health problem, right?

Don't really know what to say or how i feel at that matter.... i need wine and to isolate myself for a good 48hours.

This bored looks pretty empty so i figure it's not so popular on here, A?

Hi alittlelost. I know what you mean about it being dead here. there is a more active schizoid site if that's what your looking for.
schizoids.net

Thank you

The wine sounds like a good idea - I'm partial to a really dry red wine from Western New York State or the Finger Lakes Region.

When I was diagnosed, I went in order to be evaluated for possible Asperger's. The psychologist decided it was schizoid personality disorder (though he downplayed the disorder part).

From what I understand, it isn't even going to be listed in the DSM-V as a personality disorder.

For me, it's just an explanation for why I perfer my own company, don't have a particularly wide range of emotions, and tolerate being around others only in short spurts (though I can easily stand up and teach a class or give a lecture; but those don't involve any particular degree of socialization). It really doesn't change anything and I see no reason for me to do anything about it.

Or maybe it's just reflective of schizoid personality disorder - there's a tendency not to be particularly social creatures.

I've just been diagnosed myself. I think 'schizo' in front of any word can be frightening. But for me, after having these symptoms for over a year, I was so grateful to at least know what I was dealing with and I wasn't alone. I found lots of support here, at this site. So glad I found it.

Keep your perspective on the fact that it is a label and nothing more.

Yes you may need to work on certain parts of yourself but that's true of most people (doesn't mean they do it of course).

(For me reminding myself that diagnoses were invented as a way to help facilitate treatment standards among doctors is helpful because it reminds me that they were created for a specific purpose [to help professionals], and they are *not* descriptions of some underlying "objective reality".

Its a kind of wierdout thing to 'be diagnosed' it'd freak my out, I'd probably just feel like diagnosing the pdoc back, WELL, IF IM SCHIZOID, YOU'RE A BORDERLINE!" etc.
But I diagnosed myself, and a T fine-tuned it more accurately for me, and she was right.
Theres more info here: www.selfinexile.com

The thing about Schizoid is that you really don't get treated for Schizoid. You get treated for all things that can come with it.