[Djinn8]

As the title says.

maybe schizotypal personality disorder is less commonly diagnosed. it's not one most people understand or necessarily have heard of, therefore they would be less inclined to discuss it.

[tealBumblebee]

In my experience, like 8888 stated, it is a less common diagnosed personality disorder. When I started group, I had to explain to the group what it is because it was unheard of. When I first joined PC I posted a similar question and I only have come across one Schizotypal who I keep in decent enough contact with.

Did you have any concerns that you wanted to address?

[Snowqueen603]

I'm a schizotypal as I have been diagnosed four years ago.
I agree that most people don't understand us though. We come off as quite eccentric and eerie. It's people who are extremely terrifying though.

[IA_2809]

My psychiatrist told me informally I was likely to be one. Though she sort of laughed saying those are DSM labels useless for the context I'm.

[Crow30]

Why do I, personally ,believe that no one posts in this forum? The answer is very simple and complex at the same time, in the way that I perceive it. I`m about to turn 30 years old next month and the term 'personality disorder' was unknown to me until I was scouring the internet about mental illness after being prescribed an antidepressant and having a bad reaction to it. To make a long story short, the medication I had been prescribed gave me some kind of weird insight, as you usually get when high on some kind of illegal substance. I brought up a list of all known mental illness and was reading through them all, in which I have about 80% of, according to the symptoms, and I was reading about schizoid personality disorder in particular, and felt like I was reading a description of my life. Now that I can put in perspective these things which I thought were personality traits limited to myself, in other words that I was weird, I have a new understanding of myself...just knowing what is wrong with me. I always sought treatment for social anxiety and depression, but when I came across someone else with social anxiety, I said "if they have social anxiety, I wish that I had that." In reality I suffer from an extreme pain in which I cannot escape. I want no part in being around other people, but in order to do that, I need other people. In other words, I am deathly afraid of a society in which I need in order to protect myself from it. I need society to help me, in order to have the resources to say. hey "I`m so anxious, let me get away from you." I hope someone else relates to this, however unorganized or strange it my be.

[Mikeyboy]

Originally Posted by tealBumblebee

In my experience, like 8888 stated, it is a less common diagnosed personality disorder. When I started group, I had to explain to the group what it is because it was unheard of. When I first joined PC I posted a similar question and I only have come across one Schizotypal who I keep in decent enough contact with.

Did you have any concerns that you wanted to address?

I believe this to be the case. It's far less known compared to other disorders, I believe it's less commonly diagnosed, and honestly, the nature of the "disorder" itself I think makes it less common for us to 1) Seek out help from professionals and 2) Want to come onto a forum and talk to other people about it.

Honestly, I've been pretty screwy for a very long time, and only last year, after two decades of knowing, since I was a child, that I am very, very different from others, did I decide I wanted to join an online community and talk about my internal world to anyone.