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Why does it seem like most personality disorders fit anyone?
During the course of my college dwelling, I took a few courses in psychology, there are two subjects that intrest me psychology and english.
Personally I can see my self fitting the same portrait of a schizoid, just by the characteristics and appearance they put down.
"A person with schizoid personality disorder:
Does not desire nor enjoy close relationships, even with family members
Avoids social activities that involve significant interpersonal contact
Appears aloof and detached People with schizoid personality disorder are loners and show little interest in developing close relationships.
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I'm serious though its a hell of a thought go look at this site and read a little you will feel like one of this disorders describes you.
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All facets of human personalities occur on a continuum. Think one to ten- with one being the least consistent and ten being the most consistent. Granted at some points you have avoided social activities that involved significant interpersonal contact, and so on and so forth… The question you should ask your self is how often during the past six months to a year has a particular negative trait applied to you? The more consistent a series of traits for a particular diagnosis apply to a person the more likely the person suffers from that disorder. Likewise the more inconsistent or absent a series of traits for a disorder apply to a person, the less likely it is that the person suffers from that personality disorder.
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The most important thing to remember is NO ONE or NOTHING can diagnose you except a licensed professional. That includes lists of symptoms and those free quizzes you find online. Lists of symptoms are nothing more than that: there are other requirements in diagnosing disorders. In any disorder this collection of symptoms are reflecting a huge problem that interferes with normal activities. Also know that the mind is a very powerful thing: you can convince yourself of anything and ignore things you don't want to see. Without trying to sound mean, i think this may be what you are doing. But of course if you really think you have a problem (and thought so BEFORE you took this psych class), then you should go for an in-person psychological consultation. I'd like to think I know what i'm talking about because I am a senior psychology major. Good luck and try not to freak out over something that might be nothing!
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The reason, in a nut shell, that that personality disorders can seem to fit anyone, is because it's all about severity and length of suffering.
Almost every teenager alive will go through a depressed stage and call themselves ‘depressed’, when in fact you are not considered depressed by medical standards until many symptoms have persisted in a serious way for over six months. In short term cases of extreme stress or unhappiness, depression is a perfectly natural response.
Severity is an issue with almost any mental illness or mood disorder. Many people are stressed out or dislike speaking to strangers, but at what point do you call it an anxiety disorder? Many people prefer not to have many, or any, intimate bonds in their lives, does that make them psychotic?
Diagnosis is also a subjective science. Mental illness isn’t like bacteria that can you track down and see with you eyes, doctors and physiatrists have to deduce a diagnosis from imperfect observation. There is a huge margin for human error, both in the patient’s explanation and in the doctor’s interpretation. Add to that the incentives some doctors receive for prescribing medications and many patient’s (or the patients loved ones) are desperate to hear a label for what is wrong with them and in some cases, even know which label they want, and will just go to different doctors until they get it.
I had some issues as a child and teen and the thing I really took away from it about diagnosis is this: Treatment is far more important then labels and you CANNOT treat yourself. You shouldn’t try and diagnose yourself, because that is nonsense and frankly I can’t think of much worse then those mental health online questionnaires or tests. The best doctor I ever had spent very little time testing and asking questions to help classify my issues, but focused on the problems I was having and how they could be addressed. That is what healing is and that is what is truly important, everything else is just the details.
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Well that may be SOME symptoms. Schizophrenia also consists of...
feeling paranoid of any or ALL relationships.
Voices hallucinations.
Making up a special purpose or reason for their existance.
Anxiety in social situations.
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My biology teacher told me, that when Doctors were learning about genetic diseases, that a lot of the doctors thought/convinced themselves, that they had it. He said it was because its easy for anyone to just say,,, "well I'm like that too.." but not as the extreme as what the real symptoms of problems. I dont know if that helped at all, but maybe thats what its like with personality disorders too?
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