Schizoid Personality Disorder
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- Schizoid Personality Disorder is part of the Cluster A group of disorders. It is often characterised by an emotional flatness, no interest in relationships, a deficit in social skills and being indifferent to either praise or criticism.
In this video Darren Magee goes through the diagnostic criteria as set out by DSM 5 and gives examples of common behaviours and characteristics.
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Good evening, thank you a lot for the interesting and very helpful videos. I found your channel when I was looking for resources to learn about mental states. May I suggest the subject of depression and, or "burn out" to be touched in one of the next videos. How do depressive moods/just feeling sad/being stressed from a tight schedule differ from a depression? Can angry outbursts be connected with a depression? I'd be very greatful to learn about that topic, as to the point from which the deviation from a normal state of feeling sad or bad is exceeded, when one should consider talking to somebody. Please excuse my English, I'm from Germany, 29, trainee lawyer. Best regards!
@@SoPhia-pr4hp thank you for your suggestion
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Hi Darren! I have 2 questions: What does 'sign-posted' mean? Are schizoid and schizophrenia related terms? I think this video describes my second husband pretty much to a 'T'. He was a good guy, but that became a very lonely relationship for me. Hope you are enjoying today!
I was diagnosed with this disorder, for the most part you nailed it. I feel pretty happy and not in distress, I'm married have a nice dog and am at peace with myself. I often wondered why I didn't have close friendships, why I didn't enjoy small talk and social functions and it troubled me. I accept myself now and enjoy my life.
That sounds pretty great if u ask me im also schizoid 32 and never even got hugged by a girl, so yeah. IT could be worse lol
this may well be the most misunderstood personality disorder, if not among the most misunderstood mental disorder in general. Since the symptoms overlap with so many other diagnoses. People may see us as depressed (anhedonia), autistic (social awkwardness), narcissistic (discarding people), ADD (difficulty sticking to long term goals and lack of motivation), or even psychopathic (flat affect and indifference to criticism)
Why on EARTH would you consider "loners" to be mentally ill??? I am 67 years old and THRIVE on solitude. It has nothing to do with inability to make "small talk" etc., but has everything to do with not needing the companionship of anyone else to feel complete and fulfilled. I read, play piano, think a lot, pray, I have everything I need in myself, and I'd say loners are the most stable, healthy ppl of all.
Dude... if you took offense to his video, you probably do, indeed, need help. He isn't expressing his opinion. He is describing the condition.
I, myself, could be seen by the lay person as fitting in this category. My excuse is that a life full of narcissistic people has driven me to solitude. Especially over the past couple of years. People like Darren Magee are showing me the light and helping me understand. For example, I have, actually had, a narcissistic friend who used my solitude against me in gaslighting attempts. Mr. Magee, and others in his field, have shown me the truth.
Perceived criticism might be something you would want to seek help with. Or, maybe not...
It's a PERSONALITY DISORDER, NOT a criticism of people who like spending time on their own, prefer their own company.
@@waynec369 funny that u seem to think there was some kind of OFFENCE taken ... i also fit the schizoid descriptive ... but maybe more so than u .. being that i care less (its generally a bit odd that people think along a line that your feelings & my feelings are same same ... so attributing your own emotional take on someone else’s comment) ... one of the reasons i withdraw ... i am flat (indifferent to praise or criticism) having something to say about a subject does not mean i have FEELINGS ... too many projected emotions into statements made ... (loners are loners for many reasons) ... u cant immediately suggest they are unhappy ... a ‘disorder’ for some might simply be ‘the neurotypical’ take on the matter... & living in a world where the majority just don’t understand ✌️
Being a "loner" is not a mental illness, but it's a fallacy to think people with SPD are just "loners". It' much much more than that.
The problem that people with SPD face is that there actually IS a want for intimacy, but childhood trauma has created deep-rooted thought patterns to create these defense mechanisms that make them a loner. This is because people with SPD have a need to be "safe", and because being intimate means being vulnerable, these deep-rooted thought patterns make these people afraid to be vulnerable, and therefore not intimate. This leads to the behavior of being a "loner".
This is what Ralph Klein called the "schizoid dilemma", which is finding an answer to the question "how do I obtain SAFE intimacy", which is what all people with SPD want. The "schizoid compromise" is the answer all people with SPD respond with, and it varies from person to person. It can include very superficial relationships, masking, withdrawl from social settings, working in solitary jobs, it can even be sex-only relationships. All of these are either avoiding intimacy, or just barely keeping intimate enough to just hang on in some sort of survival mode for intimate relations. Enough so they they don't completely fall off the face of the earth to the point of no return. But most of all, it is SAFE intimacy.
The best analogy is a bonfire on a freezing night. A person is afraid to be close because they may get burned and be hurt. However, if they stray too far from the bonfire, they will freeze, and if they walk far enough, they won't see the light of the fire and won't know how to return. So they stay kinda far but not dangerously far. Enough to stay alive. It's still cold, but they can live. To an observer, they just seem weird or maybe don't mind the cold. But inside, they're still freezing.
That's where the distress lies in this disorder
Thank you! I love your comment! I think this is the reason we grow up so disrupted, we learn or are "teached " ti be this or that. Thank you ❤
Thanks for explaining it better and in a non dramatic or extreme way that other well known YTubers tend to.
I believe my partner to be spd after I initially assumed it as aspergers (which didn’t quite fit the traits and missed some out).
It’s hard for me feeling like I should explain some of his differences to friends or family but knowing they won’t get it or people tend to answer me with, “oh that’s men for you they find it difficult to show their feelings” etc. I know it’s much more pervasive than that however and wish I could do more to help but scared to suggest he seek therapy as it would appear as criticism (he is often defensive) so we struggle on and 10 years of going in circles and I think it’s given me cptsd so now i feel pretty useless
Thank you for a very informative and supportive video Darren. 😊
I just learned something else about myself. I need to start watching ALL Mr. Magee's videos about ALL disorders. The version of schizoid in my head came from what life and television has taught me, which is quite different from what he is saying here. I have a friend whose always been an enigma who displays some of these traits. Knowing more about this will help me interact with this person.
LOL I feel like I might fit in this category sometimes...
I feel i have this disorder. I have not been diagnosed, but i would like to be. I think it would give me maybe an explanation for why ive always felt so different. And i function adequately, i go to work etc, but have never had friends only relatives. I do feel loneliness and isolated, but am unable to fix this and when i do interact with others i feel no interest in what they talk about and cannot relate to anyone. I also have no hobbies and no real interests
I think we all do, is a general mechanism 😊
Schizoids tend to never be within their own body, to the point where they can't hear their intuitive thoughts, feel their own emotions or physical sensations. They might be aware of them on a cognitive level. They might sense that the sun is warm on their skin, but it doesn't reach them emotionally, because they're constantly having an out of body experience. Our emotions are our compass, so it's debilitating.
This can be a consequence of, for example, narcissistic parents. You'd be better off not responding to praise or criticism or show emotion around people who use it to control you.
I'd be interested in a video about what therapeutic approaches work well for people who are heavily dissociated. I've heard that most don't work at all.
I've always referred to my eat disorder jokingly as anorexia-o-lazy-a. I tend to view eating as simply a formality of life and I often ignore hunger pains while deep in thought. What helps me to stay on the eating wagon is to impose structure and routine around eating which in itself can be difficult with a solitary lifestyle.
Thank you.
Left out some yes, but nonetheless, as someone with ADHD and brutal work related events in 2018 it is fair to say I developed SPD since although I was always a 'loner' to use your vernacular, I am more misanthropic as before but see the DSM would include factor's such as abuse by parents and such when they were young. Short of it. I have great parents, I am 42, have my Master's Degree in Computing and have created software unique to my country, in some cases the first of it's kind, own a small business, so again the DSM essentially state that individuals have a kind of defective thinking, would it be a surprise to state that I think that is wrong? Psychiatry/psychology is on the the few Medical Sciences that evaluates based on nothing but subjective data and stats gathered over time and sure some involve clinical studies but still it is not an objective science nor perfect. Lastly as the DSM evolves I see A LOT of new 'disorders being added' when we get to DSM-10 EVERY person will be diagnosed with some kind of mental disorder.
Hello doc! I keep trying to make sense of these disorders and mental illnesses, sometimes I feel that I have them all and sometimes I feel that I start to understand something. I have family issues and try to figure out where my parents fit and where me and my brothers and sister fit in. Since is so much confusion in the way science and medical approach classified them, (is not clear to me this either and in my opinion that might be an issue too, it sometimes look like we are all mentally disordered), how can a common person like me , who consider to be traumatised and with some mental issues developed along the way, can thrive and find some ways to heal? Trauma seems to be a general human condition and not a disorder and an unconditionally and compassionately love that which we are to discover and learn about day by day seems many times the only way out. Thank you
I’ve made videos on trauma and traumatic growth if you find anything there helpful?
Well this is what I am talking about, I keep watching and listen to them, try to make sense of every bit of information I get and it's getting more and more complicated and obscure. I was expecting more light to come and I suppose that this is where I am stumble on. I'll keep trying anyway. Thank you for your intentions.
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I'm having a hard time distinguishing this from anhedonia/depression, based on your description.
I am confused by the use of the word anhedonia. It implies an onset or something I used to enjoy but don't now, whereas with SPD you never enjoyed said thing to beginning with. As someone who like to do nothing, anhedonia would lead to doing something.
I’m not depressed. I lack the energy to feel depressed. It is not depression.
How come every single video on SPD sounds like the person describing it is just reading wikipedia. I read wikipedia, it was unhelpful, so I turn to these videos, and hey presto, every physician just regurgitates the same bullshit information I literally just read.
For once I'd like to see something original on this topic, even a book recommendation, something.
Doesn't seem all that bad.
Until you realise you live in a world of people that behave completely different from you