It’s criminal just how little schizotypal personality disorder is talked about. Given it shares similarities with autism and schizophrenia, but is more prevalent than either, it seems like no one knows it even exists.
I'm schizophrenic, and while my illness is more known it's absolutely not understood. People think I'm a bloodthirsty monster one bad day away from going on a killing spree, all thanjs to Hollywood and other media empires of lies. Perhaps the Schizotypal sufferers are blessed in their anonymity, at least until people stop listening to shock news and blockbudters.
False. Schizotypal is closer to Schizofrenia. Much more derealization and depersonalization and eccentric e.g. paranormal beliefs and eccentricities. Autistic behaviors and preferences on the other hand partially overlap with Schizoid PD which is quite distinct from Schizotypal PD and the two must not be confused despite soundinf similar. For one, the etiology of Autistic traits and the Schizoid profile / so called Schizoid adaptations is completely different.
Yep. Much speculation about it. I'm still in the autistic community as I do feel more company there. I see there's not quite a lot of information about actual person experiences. More of doctors talking.
This clip helped me get a glimpse of what my psychiatrist/ other people saw in me. I feel a little embarrassed yet fascinated at the same time. I am quite articulate with my thoughts on paper but when I try to communicate with people, they often describe me as vague or strange. One of my friends called me "esoteric". Now I see why...
I always knew I look like this but I don't see any problems in it, I am the way I am, a weirdo, but at least not insane (I was officially diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder)
@@bj_cat103 Agreed. We aren't insane, we just have a unique way of seeing the world. I'd like to think that everything is somehow connected and meaningful. I never saw anything wrong with the way I am before I was diagnosed until my therapist pointed out the behavior she labelled as strange or unconventional.
Keep looking for help, Jonah, you are on the right path. Call 211 in your area and ask about community mental health treatment centers and speak to a therapist about your worry
"A Pluto, out beyond the rest; circling, ever watching, and seeing more in the darkness than the rest." That's the coolest goddamn thing I've ever heard anyone say. I'd hang with this guy. He seems more articulate and authentic than most people
I’m schizotypal and I don’t normally sound like this but I do during certain periods when I feel particularly isolated and distressed. Normally I just act like everyone else but have a bunch of weird thoughts going on in my head and feel really uncomfortable opening up myself to people. Yet it’s hard to tell unless I start to dump my thought mush onto you 😅
I'm schizotypal too and i use very often methaphors and some time neologisms. I don t want to bother you with my current situation because it would bore you like a greek tragedy(in latin) so i come to the point; i would like your opinion about this disorder, in your opinion is the origin genetic or environmental? There is so little research about STPD and that is frustrating so maybe your knowledge could enlight me. PS i love your name, i'm a fan of history.
@@nicolovoci7265 Thank you! I’m also a huge fan of history! In terms of whether STPD is environmental or genetic I can’t say for sure since I’m an 18 year old with no medical background lmao, but I do think that it’s probably a mixture of both- maybe with a lean towards genetic. I have it yet I have never experienced any trauma in my life. So to me it doesn’t make sense unless it were genetic. I don’t even know someone in my family with STPD or schizophrenia so it’s hard to say genetic either but since I haven’t met all my great grandparents and since some disorders fly under the radar and never get diagnosed, it is possible. It’s probably different for everyone, but I do know based on my research that there DEFINITELY is a connection between STPD and genetics of some sort. If your family member has STPD or schizophrenia, you are more likely to get it for sure. That’s really all I can say though personally :)
@@andersoncapa Well my main symptoms are magical thinking, ideas of reference, social anxiety, difficulty getting close to people due to trust issues, paranoia about being kidnapped or killed, as well as odd beliefs and sometimes odd speech and/or dress.
Yeah I usually speak "normal" but I do relate to speaking as if I can feel things before it happens like how he says he already knew his friend was dead and he feels when people doesn't like him etc. I always speak like that and get called crazy. but i only speak really metaphorically and odd if I'm alone with somebody and the environment feels calming. The way he speaks basically describe my mind
The use of metaphors if one of the ways I find to being understood. I found without these videos…explaining what it is like to others…..feels fruitless: like the fruit you’re offering to a hungry man that is about to spoil. They attempt to understand I want to understand, but this isn’t particularly what they are wanting to eat. I was diagnosed almost 2 years ago.
School work is easy. Book learning is easy. Getting good grades is easy. But... People are hard. Understanding people is hard. Fitting in with people is hard. I fear for the survival of humanity. Because the great herd of humanity is... mentally ill. Deluded by bullshit religions. Deluded by bullshit gods that don't exist. Playing with nuclear weapons like children playing with matches. Believing that Jesus will make it all right. I fear for the survival of humanity. Because I'm the insane one. And you're all "normal."
I have schizotypal personality disorder and I'm trying my best to get through a physics program, but between my anxiety and having to deal with people I'm having a mental breakdown most days. Picture the fear you have before a public presentation, that's the feeling I have before every lab, it's like an anxiety-riddled feverish delirium.
this makes me so sad to watch, ive got schizotypal as well, but not at all as severe in as this guy, you can tell how he has lost all motivation to care about others opinions. Also i could feel he was about to say that his college friend had died.
this kinda scares me because this is exactly how i act in therapy (just quieter) and sometimes other people. normally i'm mute and won't say a word to anyone actually. sometimes if its a stranger i wont ever see again i do talk though. not a lot
Thank you very much for posting this! Currently reviewing psychiatric diagnoses before my Step1 exam in medical school, and never had a grasp fully on how this would look in real life. Suddenly the descriptions and definitions for Schizotypal make a lot more sense after this.
Writing is said to be a great way to exorcise your inner demons and better understand what is hidden in your unconscious. this guy would be really good at writing and maybe become a great writer.
@@bluemamba5317 I also believe that certain videos are just fictional representations of certain disorders. A great writer could take an example from certain human cases. I also think that the video is fictional. Dostoevsky could write better than the creators of this video. However, the actor is good if he is, because in reality those who truly have certain disorders are not publicized so much.
@@Nihilistwriter The ones like this, that are a little over the top, I think are scripted. As you say, it was probably inspired by real cases, and mindfully made all the way through, so it turned out pretty good. Some other videos, like one I saw of a schizoid, was terrible and made it seem like he was a moron. I agree with your first comment, and thank you for reminding me about the healthy process of writing down one's mind on paper. 👍
I met a workmate of mine years ago and now I know he is schizotypical. Now I understand why he told me so very "crazy and strange" things, like he can read others thoughts.
Wow. This was me a decade ago to a T. I slipped through the cracks because I was functioning at that time in society (obsessed with and studying, of all things of course, metaphor theory), and people just thought I was 'eccentric'. Still schizotypal (obviously), was finally diagnosed last year, but I've learned to mask it a lot better than this guy (though, like him, I don't madk in clinical settings) in order to not be completely written off by everyone around me. But yes, wow, this is uncannily similar to how I present when I'm not masking at all and especially before I was on effective meds.
@@vanessas2363 Lamictal, technically prescribed for my bipolar Dx but very effective for so many of my positive StPD symptoms, especially the paralyzing paranoia. Also stimulants (amphetamines and armodafinil) at moderate doses, while they can exacerbate positive symptoms a bit and extremely so at high supratherapeutic levels, do help with the extreme executive dysfunction, ruminating thought loops about ideas of reference, and render my affect slightly less flat and facilitate a more "natural" conversational flow so that I don't sound like this individual in the video all the time. Ativan here and there during transient quasi- psychotic and highly dissociative episodes. None of it's perfect at all and I do still have many minor adjacent millipede days wherein my presentation is precisely akin to this illustration, but I can function much better in day- to- day mundane life, ADLs and casual/passing social situations than before all the meds, when nearly every day was exactly like this gentleman's presentation or worse, even while trying to mask. Denial ain't just a river in Africa, and the very integral nature of our pathology leads to running away from therapists even throughout an entire session, not coming into the system or doing so in a way that guarantees underdianosis initially. I was actually aware of schizotypal PD prior to diagnosis, familiar with the diagnosis and criteria, but never imagined it could apply to me, until a clinical psych (after seeing a social worker and an "LPC" for therapy, who of course were both useless) told me I was actually the textbook epitome of it in great detail. Apparently that's typical, lol.
That's what the ideas of reference do to us, It's really hard to speak about anything without mentioning your involvement in it since one does really believe there's a deep connection between oneself and everything else
This is also an extreme example of schizotypal, the tangential speech that doesn't quite make sense, nervous fidgeting, theory of mind deficits (assuming his boss doesn't think he's suited for the job because he can "sense" the customers have been complaining to him, weird thing to assume, most bosses would likely simply tell you directly about complaints. This is similar to thought broadcasting you see in psychotic disorders.) There's definitely many out there with the disorder that don't know it and don't come across this way, they are probably thought of as quiet and odd but not borderline delusional as we see here.
schizotypal is on the schizophrenia spectrum. most of the criteria in the DSM are in relation to deluded thought processes, paranoia, and social ineptitude. as well as affected speech patterns and odd behavior. this is typical for StPD, not “extreme”
@willywompa9663 nah this is a pretty cartoonish depiction of the disorder, my dad has it and he doesn't act this way at all, he's awkward and nervous most of the time but he doesn't sound like an insane person like the guy in the video, who is an actor btw if you weren't aware. People aren't cartoon characters
That is not a theory of mind deficit. Theory of mind deficit essentially means that you have trouble putting yourself in another person's shoes, so to speak. A personal example of that is that I can only feel how other people feel by knowing how **I** would feel, not the other person. You're thinking of ideas of reference.
@@willywompa9663 I have the condition and spend time around others diagnosed with it, too. This is a pretty severe depiction. Most of us only get that way when significantly distressed and undergoing depersonalization/derealization. This guy is specifically an actor likely repeating descriptions others with the disorder have shared in therapy settings, which is likely to be significantly different to how we'd likely present in more normative settings Some of the word choices and descriptions feel familiar to how I personally self-conceptualize, but such is generally kept internal and not so freely expressed like here
Yep, that's the one thing that stood out to me too as questionable. There are a few employment niches quasi-suited to us, but they're getting more scarce I feel. Still, from what I've read at least many schizotypals are employed albeit underachievingly so. I'm not one of them, though, I'm on SSI. The thought of working a job is mistily distant for me in part since I'm so alien to this dystopian milieu. (And if I have to be in a diagonal elevator with people I'd prefer it not be stuck sealed for hours a day on the descent.) But it's a moot point as my negative symptoms are sufficiently severe and I have comorbidities that would preclude working a conventional job for me anyway.
And yeah, as far as 'overdramatized', I feel that this video depicts me on my most symptomatic day--if I had less self-awareness, no comorbidities and no medication. The metaphorical speech I can't always translate, so that resonated, but I think it's a major misconception that we (and people with PDs generally) lack self-awareness to this extent. I might be thinking all of the things this patient says, but I do mask it in daily life and interactions because I'm cognizant that people would be disturbed, write me off as insane and/or creepy and never take me seriously if I didn't.
his speech and the things he says almost exactly resemble my thoughts - metaphorical and vast in a way that makes sense to me, but seems off-topic for others. i’ve gotten used to masking and superficial assimilation (so my speech is more conventional), but this reminds me very strongly of the way i think. i have not been diagnosed with STPD, but i speculate that i do.
If he was rich wealthy with a status he would be seen as an eccentric genius a poet a philosopher etc...let that sink in .....those labels jump out of the window if you are in power .
Such an interesting interview! I have schizoaffective but I can see a lot of similarities as far as deriving meaning from things in the environment that wouldn't seem obviously connected to others.
I have that and shitzoid personality disorder I believe we do actually recognise patterns as autistic people do (also autistic) but that it overwhelms us and feel like a super intense somewhat spiritual insight
Like that Michael Douglas Movie where he just starts flipping out on people for little things. 🤣That would awesome. The Movie is called Fallen Down. Is a good one.
In my little opinion, this guy mind is very unique and intriguing in a good way. People like this probably have tapped into something many people have never done. Almost like they use more neurons or a 3rd eye level or something. They just see and think things differently from others, that's what I'm getting out of this. Very fascinating.
i wouldn't exactly refer to it as something mystical- like a 3rd eye, or something inaccurate, like using extra neurons. one thing that explains why he is intriguing and unique is perspective--having a mental disorder of any kind or variety will cause a change of perspective. different and more traumatic life experiences that exist within the life of someone who's mind is working against them, and even traumatic experiences that may cause someone to develop said disorder, alter the way in which you process future events for the rest of your life. the human mind, after all, is the only major variable within our perception, and having a mental disorder changes that variable greatly. and, through the human mind is how we perceive everything, so if that variable is changed to such a degree, the human mind can no longer perceive things as a normal person would. another explanation more suited to specific disorders, is the fact that mental disorders also cause disordered and whimsical thinking as a whole.
@tropophyte it's most likely that his friend did not die it is what psychiatrists call a delusion. He read about his friends death yet didn't know how he died. It is most likely delusions of reference. Sensing a spirit is classic of schizotypal disorder where they sense a 'magical guide'. Also his olfactory hallucination of smelling an emotion enhances his diagnosis. These symptoms are all due to a neurotransmitter in his brain called dopamine being overactive in certain areas of the brain. Studies have shown this theory to be tru and this is reason antipsychotic medication works (based on the dopamine hypothesis).
I have STPD and OCD and let me tell you, it is all mighty hell. I have so many thoughts that I can literally, physically feel little ping pong balls bouncing around in my head and they hurt. They hurt. I don’t think I can even remember a time my mind had some peace and quiet
No "ummm's" or "ahhh's" when he speaks. Every sentence is formally structured. Also, metaphysical/spiritual thinking seems to be a common trait with this disorder.
It is. I’ve been diagnosed with this but still have trouble between the line drawn between what counts as STPD and doesn’t because I think just about anyone is capable of metaphysical or magical thinking considering religious and spiritual beliefs exists along with superstitions. Makes reality a lot more confusing and it doesn’t help I also have OCD
Watching this, I feel like at any moment Jefferson Airplane's 'Somebody to Love' will begin playing. He's a fascinating person. His style of speech, with its heavy pauses and creative metaphors, coupled with the white noise, is something I could easily listen to for hours.
I think anyone who reads more is more well spoken and someone who has a hard time with socializing and works at a library reads more. He’s just able to put his buzzard thoughts ro poetic words.
For those of you thinking he's an actor, Well he is not. He genuinely has a severe textbook case of schizotypal. In psychology the most important thing you can come away with is the fact that the Mind can become fragmented -in that it can fragment and cluster with various intensities. Personalities leave a finger print and sometimes the pattern is abstract in meaning. Like Memory, it is perpetuated by the entire brain (biologically/energetically) but also has a mystical side to it. There is a trade off you see, for Fantasmic understanding of the Universe and what We "healthy" people refer to as 'reality'. ..So the mechanism(persistent ungoverned fixation) itself is considered the illness not the Relative or perceived Quantum reality.
Schizotypal personality disorder is honestly the one that is the most perplexing to me since it's harder for me to recognize where these thought processes and perceptions are stemming from. Cluster b and c are probably the easiest for me to understand pretty extensively (for someone with no formal education) and i have a general understanding of cluster a except for when it comes to schizotypal besides the symptoms and criteria for the disorder itself. Your comment helps me understand a little more so thank you for that!
@@highhopessince922 Hello, I'm a real patient who was diagnosed as a "textbook case" of StPD. The best overarching template I can think of to describe what StPD is is that we exhibit a cognitive style that is characterized by inhabiting a realm of metaphor and an unusually high tendency to connect stimuli and information that most people would consider disparate. My whole universe is a subterranean palatial city of metaphor, a dynamic and deeply complex system of abstraction, analogy, classification and conceptual relationships. Some of us (like myself) are self-aware and therefore aware of this, and others aren't. We're misunderstood because unlike people with full-blown psychosis, the seemingly bizarre things we fixate upon, say and do aren't incoherent--they're elaborately sensical and replete with rich meaning *to us* in our own conceptual systems, but they come across that way (as incomprehensible nonsense) to other people because the key to the meaning lies in an idiosyncratic metaphor map and conceptual system that other people can't possibly know (because it's personal, dynamic/fluid, and densely layered with constructs sometimes built up over years). Basically, to be more succinct, instead of describing and interpreting the world around us in terms of a shared cultural lexicon, a conceptual system that is more fixed but more universal, we schizotypals default to using our own conceptual systems, which assign meaning based on our own individual and unusual observations, biases, etc., and that are not only unique and personal but in flux. We reinvent the wheel so to speak, by assigning meaning "from scratch" to mundane phenomena that already comes with meaning built-in and assigned by consensus. So when I think and say something like "The neon vortex generates exceptionally autophagic slugs..." (something I really do say and sincerely believe, by the way), it sounds like jibberish, but it makes perfect sense and actually describes a complex philosophical concept and expresses a tidbit of social and technological criticism within my metaphor system. Would you guess that statement means something along the lines of "The contemporary ubiquitous iteration of the internet and digital, "smart" technology leads invariably to akrasia (Greek word for acting against one's will and known best interest) of a self-perpetuating sort that compels users to engage in it for the sake of itself rather than as a tool or means to an end, causing people to mindlessly consume data and media they'd otherwise have no interest in simply because it's available by hijacking our innate reward mechanisms through an endless illusion of novelty, to the irreversible detriment of human dignity?" That's pretty much what "The neon vortex generates exceptionally autophagic slugs" means to me, but of course you wouldn't. You'd have to know what I associate with the concept of a "vortex" (that it's an omnipresent, irreversible and malevolent force pulling one into it), the invocation of a dual meaning of "neon" as vivid and flashy to draw one in (like neon signs) and illuminating something (so the "vortex" of say, smartphones, is easily recognizable as such is what I mean by that, as opposed to other vortexes that are hiddenly and subtly alluring), and that I assiciate it with screen glow, what "slugs" are to me (slugs and snails have a brain consisting of only two types of neurons in which all instinct and behavior is governed by "is food available?" and "if so, eat it", so slugs in my metaphor system refers to impulses and compulsions people have that are mindlessly based in satisfying the physical affinities of the brain and body), amd what the implication is of them being "autophagic" (eating themselves--if you think about it, the foremost purpose of a primitive organism, what drives it, is to sustain itself by eating for nourishment, so the metaphorical "slugs" referring to the compulsions to click and scroll endlessly on social media and the modern internet eat themselves in the sense that that compulsion is only satisfied by itself, by more data pointing to more data, unlike other slugs i.e. compulsions such as gluttony or lust that are satisfied by an external stimulus). Not only that, you'd have to know my emotional associations with those concepts to get the connotations of the statement--slugs, the vortex, the whole concept of neon are all horrifying and overwhelmingly negative to me in my value-system/worldciew, so it's not a neutral ovsercation, it's expressing fear and lamentation. So if you were with me out near a lake and I suddenly said "The neon vortex generates exceptionally autophagic slugs..." before shuddering and abruptly throwing my phone in the lake, you'd ordinarily think "WTF???" It wouldn't make any sense, but with the above explanation, it makes sense, the connection there, doesn't it? So I'd have internally coherent reasoning, my words and subsequent action wouldn't be random, unrelated to each other and bizarre, but it would all seem that way to you as an outside observer if you even detected a relation between the statement and the action at all. You see how this makes us not fit into society by nature. That's the best way I think of to explain schizotypal life, thinking and psychopathology, through that hypothetical example. (And because we inhabit such a strongly conceptual world in our minds, our priorities are different--a non-StPD person might think, even if they understood the statement and agreed with it, that smartphones are too expensive and useful and simply necessary to go throwing in a lake, but for someone like me in that moment I might not care about that as much as I care about staying out of the "vortex" and keeping the "slugs" at bay to maintain my dignity.) What this guy in the video says that seems unrelated and bizarre would have similarly elaborate reasoning and explanations behind it for him, I'm sure. They don't make sense to anyone (especially anyone not on the schizo- spectrum themselves) watching the video, but they emanate from his complex, extremely contextual and idiosyncratic metaphor system. It's a very solipsistic disorder that way. Make more sense, what StPD is all about? I hope I was able shed some light (see, "shed some light" is a metaphor that is, unlike my neon vortex and slug metaphors, transferably communicable to other people) on it.
It was strange that right after he was asked whether he sees things that other people don't, he proceeded to describe the letter he had received that, to my understanding, was not real. If he is not an actor, he did understand almost consciously that this was not real! Is it a common thing to be fascinated with geometric proportions, perspectives and relationships?
I am like this too.The way I speak is like this too.Even in therapy.I never had "ummms" or "ahhhs" . Thinking through everything is important for me.Diagnosed with OCPD and StPD.
Does anyone know what this series is called and/or where to find the rest of them (with the other 9 PDs)? I know there's one for each PD, and there's even one where all 10 come together in one room at the end. I just don't know what to search online to find the series. Thanks for any help!
I have comorbid ASD and Schizotypal Personality Disorder with Persistant Depressive Disorder.I take 375mg of Venlafaxine and 350mg of Quetiapine.Im currently under the Home Treatment Team or Crisis Team as it was known.My lethargy and mood arent stabilising.If they havent improved within two weeks,my consultant will taper down to mid dose on Venlafaxine and introduce Duloxetine.
Is he an actor? I can't tell but he's very convincing. If not, it's great he was able to be vulnerable on camera. As a therapist, this really helps me conceptualize this disorder.
Wait, when he said he felt an evil spirit, the sound of someone's footsteps can be heard. Does that meaaaaan thatttt the persooon who entered was POSSIBLY EEVVVIIILLL????!!!
jorgepeterbarton Big Dummy, Ween is better for mental health and just so happens to be my favorite band. Listen to The Pod or White Pepper in it's entirety.
jorgepeterbarton weasels peek their heads out of eyesockets and scream at me in Portuguese but the host has no idea they are being used and usually tells me to stay very far away from them. Some people just don't wanna hear it.
I was watching this for someone I care and am concerned about. I also have mental health DX's. If you listen to the way the sound equipment makes a funny sounding series of beeps and boops... like a trickling sort of sound, it's really disturbing for me to hear, so I am having a really hard time with this. And wont be able to finish the video! Oh, the irony.
@@JohnCena-le1jj conformity is stability. a world where there's millions of people running around thinking being normal is the same as "very limited mentally" would probably explode real quick
@@harrywang3098 But there are. Almost 156 million people worldwide are intellectually gifted. Besides, conformity does not necessitate the status quo. If the majority of the world population thought like a particular minority, that minority would be the majority and thus the "norm".
hey id like to know if this is a real client or an actor. symtoms are, weather if or if not an actor, very accurate. id also would like to know the source of the video. thanks for uploading
I can't recall who made this, I know this film was made for Psychology and clinical therapy students, so they could see what an interview with a person with various disorders may look like, and how to spot the diagnostic symptoms on a checklist. All the actors are psychology students, though. They were trained for a few weeks on specific disorders and how to portray them.
That character displays every sign and symptom of Schizotypal. It was like a hodge podge of every schizotypal symptom to see if the students could spot them on a check list.
I wonder if this man is medicated during this interview. He seems like he's been tranquilized to me, and that can actually seem to make things worse in a social setting and even cause mood changes - he seems high tbh - and I think certain drugs can definitely elevate these systems. He's not much different from me when I'm high af.. just sayin.
Ikr. They presented him like he’s a monster to be around. I was diagnosed with this disorder and feel exactly how feels with some of what he says but I’m not as vocal due to the fear of being perceived as looney
So when does spiritual beliefs become "magical thinking"??? I am struggling with this realization that Almost everything ive believed could be summed up as magical thinking, strange beliefs. Or even that all religion just stems from fear and trauma of death...
Yes I am also schizotypal and mine is a lot less severe than his. I can tell he completely blocked out many of his emotions so he can function in society.
He's pretty brave saying all of this. It makes sense to me, but I know saying it to others makes them worry. Then again he feels closer to schizophrenia.
I have schizotypal personality disorder and I am nothing like this person. It feels like this is scripted. I do have a habit of controlling my thoughts because I do have a genuine concern that people can read my thoughts. I know this is an unrealistic fear, but I honestly can't help it. SO I have to do a lot of work to keep my sh*t in check. These videos make us seem weird and we totally are not our lives are just way harder than people who don't have our disorder.
Well, a online test can't diagnose STPD. I have STPD, but can't really relate to this. There fore I think this is skizofrenia. I have some odd belief and can daydream alot, but it's nothing like this person.
LotteKJ people have different severity of symptoms. I personally think this is how I am sometimes. Like I can’t listen to music because I’m not aloud to like music
That this video is staged/fake is the obvious assumption most viewers will make. If real, the OP should post a link to the source to verify its authenticity.
Elmo President of Fiction can you please tell me more about that. I have my daughter who was diagnosed with it yesterday and I do not know how her life is going to be!
@@wedsadun341 Simply, just motivate her alot. She can sometimes feel hopeless or find something pointless in life but soon with enough encouraging she can be happy.
This is bullshit. The guy is an actor portraying a schizotypal disordered individual. It's an educational video pretending (like the Blair Witch Film) to be a real-life person. I resent the scam even if it is interesting to watch.
I was diagnozed with this disorder and I behave exactly like he does (but his clothing and appearance in general are a lot more "normal" then mine). Even if it's fake, it's still a good representation
Flat affect, thought broadcasting, olfactory hallucinations (smell), paranoid delusions (about the room, and about his supervisor knowing he reads DH Lawrence), grandiose delusions (about being 'a pluto').
He is a shaman in development,not a disordered individual.The sys does not like shamans,seers etc and labels them Ill.They were gifted in the past now are cursed.
It’s criminal just how little schizotypal personality disorder is talked about. Given it shares similarities with autism and schizophrenia, but is more prevalent than either, it seems like no one knows it even exists.
I'm schizophrenic, and while my illness is more known it's absolutely not understood. People think I'm a bloodthirsty monster one bad day away from going on a killing spree, all thanjs to Hollywood and other media empires of lies.
Perhaps the Schizotypal sufferers are blessed in their anonymity, at least until people stop listening to shock news and blockbudters.
100% agree
False. Schizotypal is closer to Schizofrenia.
Much more derealization and depersonalization and eccentric e.g. paranormal beliefs and eccentricities.
Autistic behaviors and preferences on the other hand partially overlap with Schizoid PD which is quite distinct from Schizotypal PD and the two must not be confused despite soundinf similar. For one, the etiology of Autistic traits and the Schizoid profile / so called Schizoid adaptations is completely different.
@@Schizophrenic_voidIt will come some day, remember minorities have the future 🔮✨
Yep. Much speculation about it. I'm still in the autistic community as I do feel more company there. I see there's not quite a lot of information about actual person experiences. More of doctors talking.
This clip helped me get a glimpse of what my psychiatrist/ other people saw in me. I feel a little embarrassed yet fascinated at the same time. I am quite articulate with my thoughts on paper but when I try to communicate with people, they often describe me as vague or strange. One of my friends called me "esoteric". Now I see why...
I always knew I look like this but I don't see any problems in it, I am the way I am, a weirdo, but at least not insane (I was officially diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder)
@@bj_cat103 Agreed. We aren't insane, we just have a unique way of seeing the world. I'd like to think that everything is somehow connected and meaningful. I never saw anything wrong with the way I am before I was diagnosed until my therapist pointed out the behavior she labelled as strange or unconventional.
@@nimsy6476 I managed to almost entirely erase my magical thinking by learning a lot of scientific stuff
Can I please speak with someone I just don't know what to think of all this and I'm sure you know why I'm asking
Keep looking for help, Jonah, you are on the right path. Call 211 in your area and ask about community mental health treatment centers and speak to a therapist about your worry
"A Pluto, out beyond the rest; circling, ever watching, and seeing more in the darkness than the rest."
That's the coolest goddamn thing I've ever heard anyone say. I'd hang with this guy. He seems more articulate and authentic than most people
I know, I was blown away by that.
@@totalcontrol4205 I was diagnosed. Part of the bag is metaphorical language. Poets come often of our lot. ;)
It is often considered the shaman personality trait.
staged!!!
Metaphor is poetry
I’m schizotypal and I don’t normally sound like this but I do during certain periods when I feel particularly isolated and distressed. Normally I just act like everyone else but have a bunch of weird thoughts going on in my head and feel really uncomfortable opening up myself to people. Yet it’s hard to tell unless I start to dump my thought mush onto you 😅
I'm schizotypal too and i use very often methaphors and some time neologisms. I don t want to bother you with my current situation because it would bore you like a greek tragedy(in latin) so i come to the point; i would like your opinion about this disorder, in your opinion is the origin genetic or environmental? There is so little research about STPD and that is frustrating so maybe your knowledge could enlight me. PS i love your name, i'm a fan of history.
@@nicolovoci7265 Thank you! I’m also a huge fan of history! In terms of whether STPD is environmental or genetic I can’t say for sure since I’m an 18 year old with no medical background lmao, but I do think that it’s probably a mixture of both- maybe with a lean towards genetic. I have it yet I have never experienced any trauma in my life. So to me it doesn’t make sense unless it were genetic. I don’t even know someone in my family with STPD or schizophrenia so it’s hard to say genetic either but since I haven’t met all my great grandparents and since some disorders fly under the radar and never get diagnosed, it is possible. It’s probably different for everyone, but I do know based on my research that there DEFINITELY is a connection between STPD and genetics of some sort. If your family member has STPD or schizophrenia, you are more likely to get it for sure. That’s really all I can say though personally :)
Give a example of your symptoms?
@@andersoncapa Well my main symptoms are magical thinking, ideas of reference, social anxiety, difficulty getting close to people due to trust issues, paranoia about being kidnapped or killed, as well as odd beliefs and sometimes odd speech and/or dress.
Yeah I usually speak "normal" but I do relate to speaking as if I can feel things before it happens like how he says he already knew his friend was dead and he feels when people doesn't like him etc. I always speak like that and get called crazy. but i only speak really metaphorically and odd if I'm alone with somebody and the environment feels calming. The way he speaks basically describe my mind
Woah the extended metaphors were really relatable as a schizotypal
Mara Folse fucking love the metaphors
I thought the metaphor of him feeling like planet pluto was not weird, but quite like how you would imagine some writer describing themselves
The use of metaphors if one of the ways I find to being understood. I found without these videos…explaining what it is like to others…..feels fruitless: like the fruit you’re offering to a hungry man that is about to spoil. They attempt to understand I want to understand, but this isn’t particularly what they are wanting to eat. I was diagnosed almost 2 years ago.
I think this guy would make an amazing author
Many artists and inventors like Nicola Tesla were freaks but they changed world
I think he's an actor.
His voice is so calming
It's cool this guy got through college, already hard enough as it is.
linkwarior5 he should of been ok intellect wise.
School work is easy. Book learning is easy. Getting good grades is easy. But...
People are hard. Understanding people is hard. Fitting in with people is hard.
I fear for the survival of humanity. Because the great herd of humanity is...
mentally ill.
Deluded by bullshit religions. Deluded by bullshit gods that don't exist.
Playing with nuclear weapons like children playing with matches.
Believing that Jesus will make it all right.
I fear for the survival of humanity.
Because I'm the insane one.
And you're all "normal."
I have schizotypal personality disorder and I'm trying my best to get through a physics program, but between my anxiety and having to deal with people I'm having a mental breakdown most days. Picture the fear you have before a public presentation, that's the feeling I have before every lab, it's like an anxiety-riddled feverish delirium.
@@jonstone9741 the sanest thing anyone ever said.
@@TheTheode I have that too except I have extreme anxiety. I have panic attacks. I hope you got through that physics program.
this makes me so sad to watch, ive got schizotypal as well, but not at all as severe in as this guy, you can tell how he has lost all motivation to care about others opinions. Also i could feel he was about to say that his college friend had died.
Don’t worry, he is an actor.
this kinda scares me because this is exactly how i act in therapy (just quieter) and sometimes other people. normally i'm mute and won't say a word to anyone actually. sometimes if its a stranger i wont ever see again i do talk though. not a lot
At least u accepted therapy. I am struggling with my son 25.. recently acting unusual … I can’t get him to accept help.
Thank you very much for posting this! Currently reviewing psychiatric diagnoses before my Step1 exam in medical school, and never had a grasp fully on how this would look in real life. Suddenly the descriptions and definitions for Schizotypal make a lot more sense after this.
Hes like me but inside my head. i think i emulate weakness to seem more relatable to other people.
Fawn response
Writing is said to be a great way to exorcise your inner demons and better understand what is hidden in your unconscious. this guy would be really good at writing and maybe become a great writer.
Ironically, there already was a great writer who wrote the actor in the video's script.
@@bluemamba5317 I also believe that certain videos are just fictional representations of certain disorders. A great writer could take an example from certain human cases. I also think that the video is fictional. Dostoevsky could write better than the creators of this video. However, the actor is good if he is, because in reality those who truly have certain disorders are not publicized so much.
@@Nihilistwriter
The ones like this, that are a little over the top, I think are scripted. As you say, it was probably inspired by real cases, and mindfully made all the way through, so it turned out pretty good. Some other videos, like one I saw of a schizoid, was terrible and made it seem like he was a moron.
I agree with your first comment, and thank you for reminding me about the healthy process of writing down one's mind on paper. 👍
I met a workmate of mine years ago and now I know he is schizotypical. Now I understand why he told me so very "crazy and strange" things, like he can read others thoughts.
i bursted out laughing like a dozen times watching this because it was like hearing and watching myself. i dont think this was an actor
Wow. This was me a decade ago to a T. I slipped through the cracks because I was functioning at that time in society (obsessed with and studying, of all things of course, metaphor theory), and people just thought I was 'eccentric'. Still schizotypal (obviously), was finally diagnosed last year, but I've learned to mask it a lot better than this guy (though, like him, I don't madk in clinical settings) in order to not be completely written off by everyone around me. But yes, wow, this is uncannily similar to how I present when I'm not masking at all and especially before I was on effective meds.
Me too!! What are the meds if you don't mind me asking. I ran away from the therapist in fear and denial. What a wally lol
@@vanessas2363 Lamictal, technically prescribed for my bipolar Dx but very effective for so many of my positive StPD symptoms, especially the paralyzing paranoia. Also stimulants (amphetamines and armodafinil) at moderate doses, while they can exacerbate positive symptoms a bit and extremely so at high supratherapeutic levels, do help with the extreme executive dysfunction, ruminating thought loops about ideas of reference, and render my affect slightly less flat and facilitate a more "natural" conversational flow so that I don't sound like this individual in the video all the time. Ativan here and there during transient quasi- psychotic and highly dissociative episodes.
None of it's perfect at all and I do still have many minor adjacent millipede days wherein my presentation is precisely akin to this illustration, but I can function much better in day- to- day mundane life, ADLs and casual/passing social situations than before all the meds, when nearly every day was exactly like this gentleman's presentation or worse, even while trying to mask.
Denial ain't just a river in Africa, and the very integral nature of our pathology leads to running away from therapists even throughout an entire session, not coming into the system or doing so in a way that guarantees underdianosis initially. I was actually aware of schizotypal PD prior to diagnosis, familiar with the diagnosis and criteria, but never imagined it could apply to me, until a clinical psych (after seeing a social worker and an "LPC" for therapy, who of course were both useless) told me I was actually the textbook epitome of it in great detail. Apparently that's typical, lol.
I got diagnosed with this not too long ago. so seeing how accurate this is is somewhat stressful.
His metaphors and delusions make sense to me. I also have schizotypal.
Same for me
Poetic AF.
It sounds like he is narrating his life.
That's what the ideas of reference do to us, It's really hard to speak about anything without mentioning your involvement in it since one does really believe there's a deep connection between oneself and everything else
This is also an extreme example of schizotypal, the tangential speech that doesn't quite make sense, nervous fidgeting, theory of mind deficits (assuming his boss doesn't think he's suited for the job because he can "sense" the customers have been complaining to him, weird thing to assume, most bosses would likely simply tell you directly about complaints. This is similar to thought broadcasting you see in psychotic disorders.) There's definitely many out there with the disorder that don't know it and don't come across this way, they are probably thought of as quiet and odd but not borderline delusional as we see here.
schizotypal is on the schizophrenia spectrum. most of the criteria in the DSM are in relation to deluded thought processes, paranoia, and social ineptitude. as well as affected speech patterns and odd behavior. this is typical for StPD, not “extreme”
@willywompa9663 nah this is a pretty cartoonish depiction of the disorder, my dad has it and he doesn't act this way at all, he's awkward and nervous most of the time but he doesn't sound like an insane person like the guy in the video, who is an actor btw if you weren't aware. People aren't cartoon characters
That is not a theory of mind deficit. Theory of mind deficit essentially means that you have trouble putting yourself in another person's shoes, so to speak. A personal example of that is that I can only feel how other people feel by knowing how **I** would feel, not the other person.
You're thinking of ideas of reference.
@@willywompa9663 I have the condition and spend time around others diagnosed with it, too. This is a pretty severe depiction. Most of us only get that way when significantly distressed and undergoing depersonalization/derealization. This guy is specifically an actor likely repeating descriptions others with the disorder have shared in therapy settings, which is likely to be significantly different to how we'd likely present in more normative settings
Some of the word choices and descriptions feel familiar to how I personally self-conceptualize, but such is generally kept internal and not so freely expressed like here
STPD and still employed. Must be nice. But the rest is accurate if a bit overdramatized.
Yep, that's the one thing that stood out to me too as questionable. There are a few employment niches quasi-suited to us, but they're getting more scarce I feel. Still, from what I've read at least many schizotypals are employed albeit underachievingly so.
I'm not one of them, though, I'm on SSI. The thought of working a job is mistily distant for me in part since I'm so alien to this dystopian milieu. (And if I have to be in a diagonal elevator with people I'd prefer it not be stuck sealed for hours a day on the descent.) But it's a moot point as my negative symptoms are sufficiently severe and I have comorbidities that would preclude working a conventional job for me anyway.
And yeah, as far as 'overdramatized', I feel that this video depicts me on my most symptomatic day--if I had less self-awareness, no comorbidities and no medication. The metaphorical speech I can't always translate, so that resonated, but I think it's a major misconception that we (and people with PDs generally) lack self-awareness to this extent. I might be thinking all of the things this patient says, but I do mask it in daily life and interactions because I'm cognizant that people would be disturbed, write me off as insane and/or creepy and never take me seriously if I didn't.
his speech and the things he says almost exactly resemble my thoughts - metaphorical and vast in a way that makes sense to me, but seems off-topic for others. i’ve gotten used to masking and superficial assimilation (so my speech is more conventional), but this reminds me very strongly of the way i think. i have not been diagnosed with STPD, but i speculate that i do.
If he was rich wealthy with a status he would be seen as an eccentric genius a poet a philosopher etc...let that sink in .....those labels jump out of the window if you are in power .
Grandiose
Such an interesting interview! I have schizoaffective but I can see a lot of similarities as far as deriving meaning from things in the environment that wouldn't seem obviously connected to others.
I have that and shitzoid personality disorder
I believe we do actually recognise patterns as autistic people do (also autistic) but that it overwhelms us and feel like a super intense somewhat spiritual insight
If I am Schizotypal, I must be a high functioning one !
Most are as far as i've seen.
You can make movie out of this. So intense and facinating.
The bit about the odour is probably the most interesting part.
He would probably make a good character in movies
Coulton Harmon I’m on it
Like that Michael Douglas Movie where he just starts flipping out on people for little things. 🤣That would awesome.
The Movie is called Fallen Down. Is a good one.
In my little opinion, this guy mind is very unique and intriguing in a good way. People like this probably have tapped into something many people have never done. Almost like they use more neurons or a 3rd eye level or something. They just see and think things differently from others, that's what I'm getting out of this. Very fascinating.
i wouldn't exactly refer to it as something mystical- like a 3rd eye, or something inaccurate, like using extra neurons.
one thing that explains why he is intriguing and unique is perspective--having a mental disorder of any kind or variety will cause a change of perspective. different and more traumatic life experiences that exist within the life of someone who's mind is working against them, and even traumatic experiences that may cause someone to develop said disorder, alter the way in which you process future events for the rest of your life. the human mind, after all, is the only major variable within our perception, and having a mental disorder changes that variable greatly. and, through the human mind is how we perceive everything, so if that variable is changed to such a degree, the human mind can no longer perceive things as a normal person would.
another explanation more suited to specific disorders, is the fact that mental disorders also cause disordered and whimsical thinking as a whole.
Being mentally ill is not something positive.
@tropophyte it's most likely that his friend did not die it is what psychiatrists call a delusion. He read about his friends death yet didn't know how he died. It is most likely delusions of reference. Sensing a spirit is classic of schizotypal disorder where they sense a 'magical guide'. Also his olfactory hallucination of smelling an emotion enhances his diagnosis. These symptoms are all due to a neurotransmitter in his brain called dopamine being overactive in certain areas of the brain. Studies have shown this theory to be tru and this is reason antipsychotic medication works (based on the dopamine hypothesis).
I have STPD and OCD and let me tell you, it is all mighty hell. I have so many thoughts that I can literally, physically feel little ping pong balls bouncing around in my head and they hurt. They hurt. I don’t think I can even remember a time my mind had some peace and quiet
No "ummm's" or "ahhh's" when he speaks. Every sentence is formally structured. Also, metaphysical/spiritual thinking seems to be a common trait with this disorder.
It is. I’ve been diagnosed with this but still have trouble between the line drawn between what counts as STPD and doesn’t because I think just about anyone is capable of metaphysical or magical thinking considering religious and spiritual beliefs exists along with superstitions. Makes reality a lot more confusing and it doesn’t help I also have OCD
Watching this, I feel like at any moment Jefferson Airplane's 'Somebody to Love' will begin playing.
He's a fascinating person. His style of speech, with its heavy pauses and creative metaphors, coupled with the white noise, is something I could easily listen to for hours.
He's pretty much like a dark version of Alan Watts lol
Whoever wrote that constancy is a virtue line needs an award
I always say I shoot for the stars but i gotta check to be sure i'm in the right galaxy first!
I think anyone who reads more is more well spoken and someone who has a hard time with socializing and works at a library reads more. He’s just able to put his buzzard thoughts ro poetic words.
For those of you thinking he's an actor, Well he is not. He genuinely has a severe textbook case of schizotypal. In psychology the most important thing you can come away with is the fact that the Mind can become fragmented -in that it can fragment and cluster with various intensities. Personalities leave a finger print and sometimes the pattern is abstract in meaning. Like Memory, it is perpetuated by the entire brain (biologically/energetically) but also has a mystical side to it. There is a trade off you see, for Fantasmic understanding of the Universe and what We "healthy" people refer to as 'reality'. ..So the mechanism(persistent ungoverned fixation) itself is considered the illness not the Relative or perceived Quantum reality.
Schizotypal personality disorder is honestly the one that is the most perplexing to me since it's harder for me to recognize where these thought processes and perceptions are stemming from. Cluster b and c are probably the easiest for me to understand pretty extensively (for someone with no formal education) and i have a general understanding of cluster a except for when it comes to schizotypal besides the symptoms and criteria for the disorder itself. Your comment helps me understand a little more so thank you for that!
@@highhopessince922 Hello, I'm a real patient who was diagnosed as a "textbook case" of StPD. The best overarching template I can think of to describe what StPD is is that we exhibit a cognitive style that is characterized by inhabiting a realm of metaphor and an unusually high tendency to connect stimuli and information that most people would consider disparate. My whole universe is a subterranean palatial city of metaphor, a dynamic and deeply complex system of abstraction, analogy, classification and conceptual relationships. Some of us (like myself) are self-aware and therefore aware of this, and others aren't. We're misunderstood because unlike people with full-blown psychosis, the seemingly bizarre things we fixate upon, say and do aren't incoherent--they're elaborately sensical and replete with rich meaning *to us* in our own conceptual systems, but they come across that way (as incomprehensible nonsense) to other people because the key to the meaning lies in an idiosyncratic metaphor map and conceptual system that other people can't possibly know (because it's personal, dynamic/fluid, and densely layered with constructs sometimes built up over years).
Basically, to be more succinct, instead of describing and interpreting the world around us in terms of a shared cultural lexicon, a conceptual system that is more fixed but more universal, we schizotypals default to using our own conceptual systems, which assign meaning based on our own individual and unusual observations, biases, etc., and that are not only unique and personal but in flux. We reinvent the wheel so to speak, by assigning meaning "from scratch" to mundane phenomena that already comes with meaning built-in and assigned by consensus. So when I think and say something like "The neon vortex generates exceptionally autophagic slugs..." (something I really do say and sincerely believe, by the way), it sounds like jibberish, but it makes perfect sense and actually describes a complex philosophical concept and expresses a tidbit of social and technological criticism within my metaphor system. Would you guess that statement means something along the lines of "The contemporary ubiquitous iteration of the internet and digital, "smart" technology leads invariably to akrasia (Greek word for acting against one's will and known best interest) of a self-perpetuating sort that compels users to engage in it for the sake of itself rather than as a tool or means to an end, causing people to mindlessly consume data and media they'd otherwise have no interest in simply because it's available by hijacking our innate reward mechanisms through an endless illusion of novelty, to the irreversible detriment of human dignity?" That's pretty much what "The neon vortex generates exceptionally autophagic slugs" means to me, but of course you wouldn't. You'd have to know what I associate with the concept of a "vortex" (that it's an omnipresent, irreversible and malevolent force pulling one into it), the invocation of a dual meaning of "neon" as vivid and flashy to draw one in (like neon signs) and illuminating something (so the "vortex" of say, smartphones, is easily recognizable as such is what I mean by that, as opposed to other vortexes that are hiddenly and subtly alluring), and that I assiciate it with screen glow, what "slugs" are to me (slugs and snails have a brain consisting of only two types of neurons in which all instinct and behavior is governed by "is food available?" and "if so, eat it", so slugs in my metaphor system refers to impulses and compulsions people have that are mindlessly based in satisfying the physical affinities of the brain and body), amd what the implication is of them being "autophagic" (eating themselves--if you think about it, the foremost purpose of a primitive organism, what drives it, is to sustain itself by eating for nourishment, so the metaphorical "slugs" referring to the compulsions to click and scroll endlessly on social media and the modern internet eat themselves in the sense that that compulsion is only satisfied by itself, by more data pointing to more data, unlike other slugs i.e. compulsions such as gluttony or lust that are satisfied by an external stimulus). Not only that, you'd have to know my emotional associations with those concepts to get the connotations of the statement--slugs, the vortex, the whole concept of neon are all horrifying and overwhelmingly negative to me in my value-system/worldciew, so it's not a neutral ovsercation, it's expressing fear and lamentation.
So if you were with me out near a lake and I suddenly said "The neon vortex generates exceptionally autophagic slugs..." before shuddering and abruptly throwing my phone in the lake, you'd ordinarily think "WTF???" It wouldn't make any sense, but with the above explanation, it makes sense, the connection there, doesn't it? So I'd have internally coherent reasoning, my words and subsequent action wouldn't be random, unrelated to each other and bizarre, but it would all seem that way to you as an outside observer if you even detected a relation between the statement and the action at all. You see how this makes us not fit into society by nature.
That's the best way I think of to explain schizotypal life, thinking and psychopathology, through that hypothetical example. (And because we inhabit such a strongly conceptual world in our minds, our priorities are different--a non-StPD person might think, even if they understood the statement and agreed with it, that smartphones are too expensive and useful and simply necessary to go throwing in a lake, but for someone like me in that moment I might not care about that as much as I care about staying out of the "vortex" and keeping the "slugs" at bay to maintain my dignity.)
What this guy in the video says that seems unrelated and bizarre would have similarly elaborate reasoning and explanations behind it for him, I'm sure. They don't make sense to anyone (especially anyone not on the schizo- spectrum themselves) watching the video, but they emanate from his complex, extremely contextual and idiosyncratic metaphor system. It's a very solipsistic disorder that way.
Make more sense, what StPD is all about? I hope I was able shed some light (see, "shed some light" is a metaphor that is, unlike my neon vortex and slug metaphors, transferably communicable to other people) on it.
MissOptical this is the best reply I've seen on UA-cam.
@@aspiringmultiplicity Wow...
This is why the line between appears genius and insanity is blurry at best.
Omg so this is how I appear in real life
The part about "I sense evil spirits in this room" is kinda stereotypical though but the acting is done very wel especially the body movements omg
It was strange that right after he was asked whether he sees things that other people don't, he proceeded to describe the letter he had received that, to my understanding, was not real. If he is not an actor, he did understand almost consciously that this was not real!
Is it a common thing to be fascinated with geometric proportions, perspectives and relationships?
I think the letter was probably real, but he interpreted it as having a different meaning than the author of the letter likely intended.
We blinked like 10 times in 8 minutes whoah
Wow. Excellent observation. That's also a sign of sociopathy. Or could be due to meds.
@@vanessas2363 bs
@@jacobh7188 do your research
I am like this too.The way I speak is like this too.Even in therapy.I never had "ummms" or "ahhhs" . Thinking through everything is important for me.Diagnosed with OCPD and StPD.
The background noise gives me a headache
It is a very old video, possibly, from the mid 1980s.
@@alapot1 I see but regardless, the audio equipment is poor quality.
Schizotypal could be poetic too.
Well... pretty sure he’s an actor sent from the solar flare boundary that causes the articulate form of the words and verbs gerunds and contractions.
Does anyone know what this series is called and/or where to find the rest of them (with the other 9 PDs)? I know there's one for each PD, and there's even one where all 10 come together in one room at the end. I just don't know what to search online to find the series. Thanks for any help!
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did you ever find out ?? i know this is old but i'm hoping to use it in an academic assignment
I have comorbid ASD and Schizotypal Personality Disorder with Persistant Depressive Disorder.I take 375mg of Venlafaxine and 350mg of Quetiapine.Im currently under the Home Treatment Team or Crisis Team as it was known.My lethargy and mood arent stabilising.If they havent improved within two weeks,my consultant will taper down to mid dose on Venlafaxine and introduce Duloxetine.
Similar diagnosis to me
Watch out for the withdrawal from Effexor ….
If you are adhd set the speed to 1.25 , makes it much easier to keep your attention through out....
THANK YOU.🥰
Is he an actor? I can't tell but he's very convincing. If not, it's great he was able to be vulnerable on camera. As a therapist, this really helps me conceptualize this disorder.
Wait, when he said he felt an evil spirit, the sound of someone's footsteps can be heard. Does that meaaaaan thatttt the persooon who entered was POSSIBLY EEVVVIIILLL????!!!
this guy wrote the lyrics to Spiderland
this is what happens when i listen to Captain Beefheart on repeat.
jorgepeterbarton omg
jorgepeterbarton Big Dummy, Ween is better for mental health and just so happens to be my favorite band. Listen to The Pod or White Pepper in it's entirety.
Trout Mask Replica threw my mind somewhere in my backyard and never found it but it also taught my cat how to speak English.
Collin 97 taught all my squirrels french and now i will only play guitar in the middle of a hedge.
jorgepeterbarton weasels peek their heads out of eyesockets and scream at me in Portuguese but the host has no idea they are being used and usually tells me to stay very far away from them. Some people just don't wanna hear it.
I was watching this for someone I care and am concerned about. I also have mental health DX's. If you listen to the way the sound equipment makes a funny sounding series of beeps and boops... like a trickling sort of sound, it's really disturbing for me to hear, so I am having a really hard time with this. And wont be able to finish the video!
Oh, the irony.
Guys pretty chill.
I feel people like him are normal and "normal people" are just very limited mentally 🤷
can't agree with you there
@@harrywang3098 Reason?
@@JohnCena-le1jj conformity is stability. a world where there's millions of people running around thinking being normal is the same as "very limited mentally" would probably explode real quick
@@harrywang3098 But there are. Almost 156 million people worldwide are intellectually gifted. Besides, conformity does not necessitate the status quo. If the majority of the world population thought like a particular minority, that minority would be the majority and thus the "norm".
I disagree I feel he is more mentally capable than most people who doubt his intelligence like say people like you 🤷🏿♀️
...a square peg, and all the holes are round...
hey id like to know if this is a real client or an actor. symtoms are, weather if or if not an actor, very accurate. id also would like to know the source of the video. thanks for uploading
actor
Bad actor
I can't recall who made this, I know this film was made for Psychology and clinical therapy students, so they could see what an interview with a person with various disorders may look like, and how to spot the diagnostic symptoms on a checklist.
All the actors are psychology students, though. They were trained for a few weeks on specific disorders and how to portray them.
That character displays every sign and symptom of Schizotypal. It was like a hodge podge of every schizotypal symptom to see if the students could spot them on a check list.
yeh a sort of stereotypical exaggeration of all the symptoms condensed to one interview
I'm not an rapper, however for real If I ever need a sample, This will be the one I'll use by default.
I wonder if this man is medicated during this interview. He seems like he's been tranquilized to me, and that can actually seem to make things worse in a social setting and even cause mood changes - he seems high tbh - and I think certain drugs can definitely elevate these systems. He's not much different from me when I'm high af.. just sayin.
Nope this is a severe presentation of an untreated personality no drugs needed baby
I like this fellow
the way they toned this interview really reflects on how society viewed mental disorders at the time. kinda upsets me...
Ikr. They presented him like he’s a monster to be around. I was diagnosed with this disorder and feel exactly how feels with some of what he says but I’m not as vocal due to the fear of being perceived as looney
So when does spiritual beliefs become "magical thinking"???
I am struggling with this realization that Almost everything ive believed could be summed up as magical thinking, strange beliefs. Or even that all religion just stems from fear and trauma of death...
Dude if u r acting u should have been given an oscaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa---r.good job
whoa. it's very severe
Yes I am also schizotypal and mine is a lot less severe than his. I can tell he completely blocked out many of his emotions so he can function in society.
This would probably be what mine would look like if like him I had to hold a job that entailed dealing with the public all day.
@ Fábio R. I hope you’re doing great man, I am just wondering if people with stpd can ever fall in love or not?
Don't be fooled by his emotional flat effect. He's very, very intelligent and astute. Hyper-aware and intuitive.
@@keunzangchoedrak7272 that question is so extremely funny, I swear, I hope you re-read it sometime
Anyone know what year this is from?
whats this guy up to today
This sounds normal. I act like this all the time
What is the name of the Interviewer?
He is nervous he's speaking like me when I'm nervous
Just listen 6:28 He is so poetic and philosophical, ordinary "normal" people are just like stupid carnivores.
He's pretty brave saying all of this. It makes sense to me, but I know saying it to others makes them worry. Then again he feels closer to schizophrenia.
Do the people suffering from this PD tend to have suicidal tendencies?
i read that they are 1.5x more likely to attempt suicide than those without this disorder
Yep
I have schizotypal personality disorder and I am nothing like this person. It feels like this is scripted. I do have a habit of controlling my thoughts because I do have a genuine concern that people can read my thoughts. I know this is an unrealistic fear, but I honestly can't help it. SO I have to do a lot of work to keep my sh*t in check. These videos make us seem weird and we totally are not our lives are just way harder than people who don't have our disorder.
You maybe schizoaffective or pissibly schizoid pd, which are diferent. I am definitely schizoid.
I have the same personality disorder and I am very weird. Weirder than this guy. You're projecting your own insecurities onto the video
Sorry guys but there's another video about the DSM-5 with the same lines, I think it's scripted
took an online test that said i had this disorder...i don't relate to this guy at all.
Lou Siffer lmao
i was just diagnosed with this guy by a professional, i dont see my self at all.....
@@avemarie7364 dont worry, it's a really severe weird video. I have stpd and I think the guy is more of a paranoid schizophrenic
Well, a online test can't diagnose STPD. I have STPD, but can't really relate to this. There fore I think this is skizofrenia.
I have some odd belief and can daydream alot, but it's nothing like this person.
LotteKJ people have different severity of symptoms. I personally think this is how I am sometimes. Like I can’t listen to music because I’m not aloud to like music
I have a friend like this
Well you must be a very good friend. I've got this. But I talk very fast.
Is this somewhow treated / cured?
He doesn't sound really shut down to me.
666 likes, hmmm
Hey it's Jim from the offices Indian half brother!
That this video is staged/fake is the obvious assumption most viewers will make. If real, the OP should post a link to the source to verify its authenticity.
Coolest personality ever :)
@X{ Zizo04 }X i want to get diagnosed for it this summer I rlly need therapy
no they lie a lot.
It kinda annoying but ig you think we act cool or smth, it's not really cool though just straight up insane
@@forsakenjones4695 I think it depends? I don't think people with StPD often like lying, most seem to prioritize honesty
I think i am schizoid and a classmate is schizotypal. Even his appearance is simillar to this dude.
Fabulous actor, in my opinion.
So is it real or not
This guy reminds me of Terrence Howard.
All I know is don't fuck with this guy by stopping him reading D. H Lawrence
This is likely listed wrong
This guy is a psychic he’s not crazy
this disorder is not "crazy", it's "weird"
Bingo
@@bj_cat103 thanks for the correction I’m only diagnosed with a type of schizophrenia
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This seems rehearsed to me.
It is - he's an actor
Juliette Zephyr well, I found a real one.
This is made to illustrate to outsiders the full range of what can happen
People with Schizotypal have very odd almost forced sounding demeanors when communicating because they feel really uncomfortable; it fucking sucks
Im a schizotypal and he is just like me
Elmo President of Fiction can you please tell me more about that. I have my daughter who was diagnosed with it yesterday and I do not know how her life is going to be!
@@wedsadun341 Simply, just motivate her alot. She can sometimes feel hopeless or find something pointless in life but soon with enough encouraging she can be happy.
@@wedsadun341 It's not always a bad thing, as long as she is a strong person (great will). It has it's ups and downs.
@@keunzangchoedrak7272 I found love so uhh.. guess that proves it.
Also a schizotypal. Sometimes feel alone but my dad also been diagnosed and I’m hoping to encounter anybody else with it
This is bullshit. The guy is an actor portraying a schizotypal disordered individual. It's an educational video pretending (like the Blair Witch Film) to be a real-life person. I resent the scam even if it is interesting to watch.
It's really hard to tell of it's real TBH
I was diagnozed with this disorder and I behave exactly like he does (but his clothing and appearance in general are a lot more "normal" then mine). Even if it's fake, it's still a good representation
idk why but psychologists just sound so condescending to me
Then everyone else must sound hostile and violent to you.
I used to feel this way too, but it's probably just how everyone in my normal ambient acts like bullies and call it affection
This is so acted and scripted. He suppose to have skitzotypal not Mr bean syndrome
I looks scripted.
Permanent LSD trip
Yesss .
No charisma is the problem as to why they don’t fit in. Sad.
Thought he was a good guy
Says the lady with the creepy photo and zero self-awareness.
It’s kinda hard to have charisma when u literally feel like people just don’t like u and everyone is higher that I .
Flat affect, thought broadcasting, olfactory hallucinations (smell), paranoid delusions (about the room, and about his supervisor knowing he reads DH Lawrence), grandiose delusions (about being 'a pluto').
No
In this case the Pluto metaphor is not an example of grandiose delusions but of the symptom criterion overly elaborate/metaphorical speech
He is a shaman in development,not a disordered individual.The sys does not like shamans,seers etc and labels them Ill.They were gifted in the past now are cursed.
This guys funny 😂
I get what he means