Schizotypal personality disorder

Schizotypal personality disorder

they are typically socially isolated, like those with schizoid personality disorder. They also behave in ways that would seem unusual to many of us, and they tend to be suspicious and to have odd beliefs

Schizotypal personality disorder

considered by some to be on a continuum with schizophrenia but without some of the more debilitating symptoms, such as hallucinations and delusions

Schizotypal personality disorder

People given a diagnosis of schizotypal personality disorder have psychotic-like ( but not psychotic ) symptoms ( such as believing everything relates to them personally), social deficits, and sometimes cognitive impairments or paranoia

Schizotypal personality disorder

These individuals are often considered odd or bizarre because of how they relate to other people, how they think and behave, and even how they dress

Schizotypal personality disorder

They have ideas of reference

Schizotypal personality disorder

Individuals with schizotypal personality disorder also have odd beliefs or engage in "magical thinking " believing, for example, that they are clairvoyant or telepathic

Schizotypal personality disorder

They report unusual perceptual experiences, including such illusions as feeling the presence of another person when they are alone

Schizotypal personality disorder

They may get too suspicious and have paranoid thoughts

Schizotypal personality disorder

More on cognitive, thinking

Clairvoyance

think they are psychic, predicting the future

pervasive pattern

A pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort with and reduced capacity for close relationships, cognitive or perceptual distortions, and eccentricities of behavior, beginning by early adulthood and present in various contexts.

5 or more

How many of the following criteria must be met for Schizotypal personality disorder

Schizotypal personality disorder

Ideas of reference ( excluding delusions of reference )

Schizotypal personality disorder

. Odd beliefs or magical thinking that influences behavior and is inconsistent with subcultural norms ( superstitiousness, belief in clairvoyance, telepathy, or " sixth sense "; in children and adolescents, bizarre fantasies or preoccupations )

Schizotypal personality disorder

Unusual perceptual experiences, including bodily illusions

Schizotypal personality disorder

Odd thinking and speech ( vague, circumstantial, metaphorical,overelaborate, or stereotyped )

Schizotypal personality disorder

Suspiciousness or paranoid ideation

Schizotypal personality disorder

Inappropriate or constricted affect

Schizotypal personality disorder

Behavior or appearance that is odd, eccentric, or peculiar

Schizotypal personality disorder

Lack of close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives

Schizotypal personality disorder

Excessive social anxiety that does not diminish with familiarity and tends to be associated with paranoid fears rather than negative judgments about self

Schizotypal personality disorder

Does not occur exclusively during the course of schizophrenia, a bipolar disorder or depressive disorder with psychotic features, another psychotic disorder, or autism spectrum disorder