What is Schizotypal Personality Disorder?

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[StarkRavn]

I'm Schizotypal and I actually really like interacting with people, having friends, I may not be able to have them close to me, but I still want them there. I still want to talk to them, rant to them. Go out drinking with them. And I am not good at talking to people I don't know, so making new friends can be difficult, so I use my eccentricities to my advantage, dressing outlandishly so that interresting people start talking to me. That have worked pretty well so far :D

[BabyZelda]

I'm Schizotypal. Nice to see a good video on it! There aren't many Schizotypal vids on Youtube.

[ryanmcdarby]

I have Schizotypal Personality Disorder & my main issues are with interacting with other people. I very rarely talk to anybody but close family members & even then I feel very suspicious & uncomfortable. I will sometimes force myself to be around other people - I go to a gym to box for an hour once a week for example, but I never really make friends & I feel as though people can see that there's something wrong with me or that they're suspicious of me. It's like I don't know how to behave naturally or ''normally'' & so I have to imagine what a normal person would say & do & try my best to act it out - which is very stressful. I know a lot of people will say "but what is normal" etc etc, but those people really aren't helping. Having a schizotypal illness is VERY different to being an unusual or unconventional person. I wish everyone the best of luck managing their illness. I am currently prescribed pregablin for my anxiety and would like to know about the medications others are prescribed & if they help at all x

[nadinechen]

I was diagnosed 10 years ago and I personally feel this is a very good and nonjudgemental overview. Im actually surprised, I feared the worst because many are looking down on it (even therapists) while they talk about it. I have seen one therapist making a video saying "Being honest, who would want a friend like that" and not gonna lie that hurt a little becuase he said it so matter-of-factly.
So Im very grateful seeing a kind and informative video like this, thank you!

[thebioexorcists]

I was recently diagnosed as having Schizotypal Personality Disorder. I am also diagnosed as having Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (Inattentive Type), Panic Disorder w/o Agoraphobia and Generalized Anxiety Disorder from 7 years ago. I found your video to be very interesting, informative and to-the-point. Thank you so much for making this video and please keep up the good work!!!

[johnswanson]

I just today learned that my 38-year-old son was diagnosed some time ago with schizotypal personality disorder. How this diagnosis has come to me so late in our lives has an explanation too Shakespearean to present here. But I write to say thank you for your video. Your characterization of the disorder fits him and helps me understand him and provides some ideas for guidance. And some hope. It also gives me insight into my father. And once my wife finds out, she too will see the propriety of the diagnosis for her stepson, she will recognize my father as well, and then she will no doubt raise an accusatory finger at me and say, “Ah ha! It was you all along!”


Perhaps not the time for a joke. That my son may be so afflicted… Then again, perhaps this is just the time for humor.

In any case, thank you for your work here.

[Salome_Kochalski]

I´ve been misdiagnosed with antisocial personality disorder a few years ago and just got the newer, more fitting diagnosis of schizotypal personality disorder last month. It´s nice to hear that this happened to multiple people.

[bprodu]

As a Schizotypal, people don't understand me. They're like: Stop being like that! So, being those things, I always have to walk away from the relationship.

[erinowl]

Thank you for the video.
I was diagnosed with Schizotypal Personality Disorder as well as Complex PTSD. I switched therapists. WOW - what a difference. My new therapist said she doesn't agree with the term "DISORDER" and likes to use the word "CONSTRUCT" instead. And started off by telling me she believes everyone is already WHOLE INSIDE. This made me feel "BETTER" from the get-go.

Instead of looking at a broken MESS of DISORDER, hoping to pick up all these broken pieces and somehow "fit" them into a fragmented, glued together "image" that would somehow and hopefully "FORM A PERSON" someday, she started me right off from a CENTERED place of WHOLENESS with CONSTRUCTS all around me - some maladaptive, some not so much - but all helped ME - the ME inside - to SURVIVE. Schizotypal personality constructs, complex post traumatic stress constructs ....

The "WORK" then becomes looking at and dealing with the CONSTRUCTS - keeping / embracing them, modifying them, getting rid of them from a place of STRENGTH, CHOICE and WHOLENESS.
I am SO GLAD I found a therapist who can TRULY HELP - and only a few weeks into therapy - I am now reading "THE UNTETHERED SOUL" - who am I? - who is the ME? - who are the "VOICES"? - a very SLOW READ.

Your video made me feel OK - I'm different - but it's OK - being alone is OK - I don't have to FIX all this "DISORDER" - all these CONSTRUCTS - I just have to see that I am ME - and decide what is comfortable and productive for ME to BE WHO I AM.
Thank you . Thank you. Your videos have been helpful

[ashtinpaulet]

I love your videos.  I'm a 911 operator and I love my job but it can be stressful at times.  I wanted to know could you do a video about people who have jobs like me "first responders" and how to deal with the stress and anxiety especially when you're not at liberty to talk about the things that go on with others.

[fromeveryting]

I think my former roommate had this, and it was a blast! For some reason I really felt like we spoke the same language. We would speak about life and art for hours. Always in a 'magical' and interpretive way. We would speak about love, astrology, saturn, energies, evil, fate, will. We were both artists and I guess that made me really open for symbolic ways of understanding things. I never really got his paranoya or anxiety though. He came off as very confident and was very popular among women. I on the other hand had strong fears of intimacy and was very passive in social situations.

[god_pharaoh]

i've always been a suspicious person, especially with my parents, friends, and relationships. couple years ago i had a serious relationship and i couldn't leave the other person alone. i always had to know what they're doing, always had trouble trusting them, what their motives are, etc. never really ever considered i might have something wrong with me till now. the vid was a bit helpfull, ty

[mineola_]

I think it's great that you're doing a video about this. Even as a medstudent who has done her psych rotation it's still a very elusive disorder I feel. It's hard to explain what it actually is and how it looks like and creating more awareness and spreading more knowledge and counter the spread of misinformation is so important.

[Billybloop]

My best friend is diagnosed with this condition. I have known him for over 10 years and we were flatmates for a while. It was difficult living with him at times. He would think that demons were after him and he hit me over the head with a food tray. He wasn't medicated then, either.

[austinburns]

Does anyone else sometimes hear voices calling out your name, when it's really just noise?

[AboogieNY]

As a therapist myself (Registered Clinical Social Worker), I found this video to be very informative for anyone that's willing to know more about this mental health disorder. I've came across many different forms of psychotic disorders, but this one never been one of them and yes as you mentioned Kati, this could very well be hard to diagnosis and to understand. Great Video.

[patrickbateman]

I’m Schizotypal btw the reason we get accused of dressing weird is because we don’t know what a good outfit looks like.

[kennethpetroni]

I have Schizotypal personality disorder and I love it. I see the Universe in ways that people can only dream of. We have taken the “Blue Pill”. Positive Energy! You Got It!

[NASkeywest]

I used to have a shadow that followed me. Always thought i was just crazy. Last month my friend was over at my house and saw the shadow to. Spirits are real

[DarkArachnid]

You know, it's funny. I'm not sure if it's some kind of delusion brought on by being schizotypal or what, but I notice that whenever I think that someone is going to screw me over, they usually do. In fact, it's about 90% accurate. I understand that this may sound strange, but I just KNOW. You know what I mean? It's like I can FEEL the vibe that people give off. I guess, as an example, it's like how the feeling of being in a bad neighborhood is different from the feeling of being in a good neighborhood. You just KNOW that something is up, but you don't know WHEN or HOW you are going to get screwed. The strange thing is that a lot of so called "nice" people give off a bad vibe more than people on the bottom rungs of society. It's almost as if people screw each other over to survive. The problem, is that if people are confronted for their selfish behavior, they will simply deny it. And, their friends (if there ever WAS such a thing) may even cover for them. By the way, I noticed throughout the video, you kept saying "we". Why is this? My understanding is that you wanted to provide a more inclusive and comfortable environment for your viewers which is COMPLETELY understandable. But, perhaps, I am wrong. However, have you considered the possibility that it's okay to be (reasonably [as in, you don't make burgers out of ground up people or something like that]) different? Were we created to be mindless drones, slaving away until we die? Or, are we put here for a far greater purpose? A purpose that goes above and beyond anything tangible? The reason I ask is because most people don't really know what they TRULY want out of life. They convince themselves that only a single path is the correct one, but only because others have walked that same path or they have been told that it is, indeed, the correct path. And, up until the curtain draws to a close, they deny how miserable and unhappy they are. I wish people would wake up to the reality that they create for themselves.