Schizotypal Personality disorder

Schizotypal personality disorder (STPD) is a mental health condition marked by a consistent pattern of intense discomfort with relationships and social interactions. People with STPD have unusual thoughts, speech and behaviors, which usually hinder their ability to form and maintain relationships. STPD is both a cluster a personality disorder and on the schizophrenic spectrum. People with schizotypal personality disorder typically display unusual behavior, odd speech and magical beliefs. They might not realize their behavior is unusual or problematic. Some people with schizotypal personality disorder later develop schizophrenia, they also may or may not have psychosis or hallucinations. People with schizotypal personality disorder experience intense discomfort and distress in social situations. They may have a lot of difficulties forming close relationships and maintaining them, partially due to a distorted interpretation of social interactions, as well as odd social behavior. STPD terms, STPD types, Diagnostic Criteria

STPD terms

TBP / Trustable Person - Someone that those with STPD find trustable, someone they may trust with their odd beliefs, or just someone they can trust.

STPD types

Insipid
Timorous

Diagnostic Criteria

A. A pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort with, and reduced capacity for, close relationships as well as by cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior as indicated by five (or more) of the following:

  1. Ideas of reference (excluding delusions of reference).
  2. Odd beliefs or magical thinking that influences behavior and is inconsistent with subcultural norms (e.g., superstitiousness, belief in clairvoyance, telepathy, or “sixth sense”; in children and adolescents, bizarre fantasies or preoccupations).
  3. Unusual perceptual experiences, including bodily illusions.
  4. Odd thinking and speech (e.g., vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, overelaborate, or stereotyped).
  5. Suspiciousness or paranoid ideation.
  6. Inappropriate or constricted affect.
  7. Behavior or appearance that is odd, eccentric, or peculiar.
  8. Lack of close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives.
  9. Excessive social anxiety that does not diminish with familiarity and tends to be associated with paranoid fears rather than negative judgments about self.

B. 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.

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Pub: 24 Mar 2024 17:40 UTC

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