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“Psychiatric researchers in the 1800s considered the appearance in adolescence of chronic, emotionally detached, eccentric-thinking presentations as indicative of a precocious onset of Dementia Praecox. This was an earlier term for Schizophrenia, which usually surfaces in the 20s to early 30s.
In the early 1900s, Eugen Bleuler realized most early-onset cases didn’t lead to progressive deterioration (Millon, 1996). This means there was no progression to full psychosis, with patterns of enduring hallucinations, well-formed delusions, gross disorganization, and/or catatonia, as in Schizophrenia.
The state of being these individuals remained in is reminiscent of the prodromal phase of Schizophrenia. This phase is considered “budding” psychosis when, months-to-years prior to a first florid psychotic episode, those with Schizophrenia display a turning-inward period. Detaching from relationships and emotions, they become interpersonally anxious, develop eccentric thought processes that may only make sense to them, and walk a thin line between delusional thinking and reality. Such thinking may include a fixation on apparent extrasensory perception (ESP) and ideas of reference. The latter is when someone wonders if certain occurrences in their environment, like coincidences, have a special connection to them.
Another difference is psychotic disorders tend to be episodic, and the symptoms in the precociously symptomatic youth remained static at baseline. It was as if they manifested a perpetual, latent manifestation of Schizophrenia. Such a sustained, inflexible, maladaptive psychological and behavioral architecture was pointing more towards a matter of personality disorder.”
- Psychology Today || Schizophrenia or Schizotypal Personality? written by: Anthony D. Smith LMHC reviewed by: Matt Huston
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tortiefrancis · 1 year
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hey fun fact did you know that if you're on the schizophrenia spectrum, have psychosis, have psychotic symptoms or traits, etc, that you're loved and your symptoms and traits should not be vilainized or seen as evil or ugly?
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madpunks · 6 months
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please include schizospectrum people in your mental health positivity post. please actually include schizophrenic, schizoaffective, schizotypal, schizoid and other psychotic people. still to this day, i get called dangerous for being schizophrenic. my last ex told me they "knew" i would lash out and become dangerous and that they shouldn't have dated me specifically because i'm schizophrenic. i never lashed out to hurt them, by the way, but they routinely hurt me.
schizospectrum disorders do not make someone inherently dangerous. people still believe this firmly. our fight isn't over we still have to continue to speak about schizospec people and how unfairly we are treated. we are dehumanized instantly the second people find out about our conditions. we are treated like ticking time bombs. people openly admit that we are scaring them when we talk about our psychosis and how it affects us.
people tell us to calm down and that our delusions aren't real and that we're overreacting. people give reality check us and force us to try to think in ways that scare us. people refuse to trust our own accounts of our own lives and what is happening to us, even when we are not actively delusional or hallucinating. people infantilize us and treat us like we're stupid and have zero autonomy.
we are not dangerous. we are not scary. we are literally just existing in a world that refuses to accept us. please keep talking about schizospectrum struggles and how we need to be seen as just another human, just like anyone else. we can be as unique and varied as anyone else with any other neurotype. we are not all the same person, and we are not inherently dangerous or scary.
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motormouthedfool · 4 months
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bitches be like "do i have a personality disorder or am i just looking for attention or am i just trying to find excuses for behaving the way i do"
im bitches
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Psychotic episode are fucking terrifying so sorry if I don't like when you use the word "delulu" and sorry if I don't want to talk to you because you think I'm crazy or dangerous and sorry if you think I'm exaggerating BUT FUCK YOU BECAUSE I WAS TERRIFIED.
I WAS SCARED.
I WAS LIKE A KID SCARED OF THE DARK.
HOW DARE YOU THINK IT'S FUNNY.
I WAS AFRAID TO GET KILLED, I WAS TERRIFIED OF GOING OUTSIDE I WAS CONVINCED OF HORRIBLE THINGS I COULDN'T SPEAK I COULDN'T MOVE I WAS TRAPPED IN MY BRAIN SO FUCK YOU.
Fuck anyone who thinks psychotic episodes are funny. Fuck anyone who judges someone for being on the schizo spec. Fuck anyone who laughs at this.
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littlemeowmeowmaeve · 28 days
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I feel like a lot of the personality disorder criteria in the DSM-5 focuses on the outward appearance of the disorder rather than what the person with the disorder is actually feeling. Npd and aspd are what I’m thinking of as examples right now, so let’s go over those first. People with any sort of personality disorder, feel free to chime in and add any thoughts you may have on how the DSM-5 represents your disorder.
Npd’s symptoms in the DSM-5 are listed as:
A persistent pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy
An exaggerated, unfounded sense of their own importance and talents (grandiosity)
Preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited achievements, influence, power, intelligence, beauty, or perfect love
Belief that they are special and unique and should associate only with people of the highest caliber
A need to be unconditionally admired
A sense of entitlement
Exploitation of others to achieve their own goals
A lack of empathy
Envy of others and a belief that others envy them
Arrogance and haughtiness
The focus is on how other people might see someone with the disorder rather than what someone with the disorder might feel. As someone with npd, the main symptom of the disorder is lack of self-esteem. Someone with npd very well might experience or do these things BECAUSE of a lack of self-esteem, but I feel like the lack of self-esteem isn’t focused on enough for how much it impacts everything else. Honestly I’d go as far as to say it’s the very root of the disorder (y’know, besides trauma. But the low self-esteem is caused by trauma so, you get what I mean).
Now, I don’t personally have aspd myself, but from what I’ve heard from people with the disorder (people with aspd feel free to chime in), anhedonia is pretty much the biggest symptom? But if you look at the criteria it’s…
A persistent disregard for the rights of others
Disregarding the law, indicated by repeatedly committing acts that are grounds for arrest
Being deceitful, indicated by lying repeatedly, using aliases, or conning others for personal gain or pleasure
Acting impulsively or not planning ahead
Being easily provoked or aggressive, indicated by constantly getting into physical fights or assaulting others
Recklessly disregarding their safety or the safety of others
Consistently acting irresponsibly, indicated by quitting a job with no plans for another one or not paying bills
Not feeling remorse, indicated by indifference to or rationalization of hurting or mistreating others
And again, it’s not like people with aspd CAN’T experience or do these things BECAUSE of their anhedonia, but I really feel like that should be emphasized. Anhedonia isn’t even LISTED as a symptom. But when I listen to people with aspd talk about their experiences, the most commonly talked about symptom is generally feeling extreme boredom constantly, aka anhedonia. Again, people with aspd feel free to correct me and or add any thoughts you may have.
Looking at the criteria now, I see the same sort of issue with stpd (though I see this issue to an extent in the criteria for every personality disorder). I don’t have stpd myself so if you do, feel free to correct me or add anything, but I swear to god if I have to see the word “odd” or “eccentric” or “peculiar” one more fucking time. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN!!!!! The definition of those words is going to be different from person to person. It literally feels like they’re saying “I have diagnosed you with ABNORMAL disorder.” Like…please be more specific, I’m begging. What do you mean by ODD? What classifies “odd” behavior?
Anyways, that’s my little rant. I just wanted to see what other pd havers thought about it???
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glitchdollmemoria · 10 months
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thinking rn about how much shit people with personality disorders get and how protective i feel of my fellow pd havers. you are all so special to me and i am so proud of you and i believe in you and i want you to succeed, okay? okay.
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twoheadedfather · 7 months
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one thing that i'll never understand is that when like autistic people mask they're not trying to deceive anyone and it's sad they've been forced to mask because of social pressures (obviously) but when people with personality disorders mask they're automatically trying to "manipulate" everyone around them so that they can "abuse" them and "trick" them ??? like what
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cupboard-of-npd · 28 days
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When ppl know of personality disorders outside of bpd:
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Non-cluster A people, y’all need to start recognizing that our PDs don’t make us “crazy”.
Schizoids? Their indifference and disinterest doesn’t make them crazy, nor does their flattened affect or lack of pleasure. Just because them not wanting to do something that doesn’t bring them joy for you doesn’t make them bad people or “weirdos”.
Schizotypals? Their unusual thoughts and mannerisms doesn’t make them crazy, nor does their lack of close confidants or general fear. Them doing what they feel is right is normal. Your beliefs are your realities, so don’t try and make schizotypals out to be the bad guys because theirs are odd compared to others.
Paranoids? Our mistrust doesn’t mean we’re crazy, nor does our self-preservation or self-defense. If the world was out to get you, you would be on edge too. Stop calling us burdensome because we have a normal human response to something thats abnormal to the average person.
Being schizoid doesn’t make you crazy. Being schizotypal doesn’t make you crazy. Being paranoid doesn’t make you crazy. Being cluster a doesn’t make you crazy. Being schizospec doesn’t make you crazy. We are not crazy.
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goblin-d · 1 year
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I love you people with PPD, I love you people with SPD, I love you people with StPD, I love you people with AsPD, I love you people with BPD, I love you people with HPD, I love you people with NPD, I love you people with AvPD, I love you people with DPD, I love you people with OCPD.
I love you paranoids, I love you schizoids, I love you schizotypals, I love you antisocials. I love you borderlines, I love you histrionics, I love you narcissists, I love you avoidants, I love you dependents, I love you obsessive-compulsives.
I love anyone and everyone with a personality disorder. These disorders are so heavily stigmatized. We need more love in the community.
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dylan-the-gay · 11 months
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People with personality disorders should kiss other people with personally disorders
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gay-jewish-bucky · 1 year
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having a personality disorder is not what makes someone abusive or neglectful. your abuser having a personality disorder is correlation, not causation. condemning all people who have the same pd is sanist, ableist and stigmatizing. it doesn't change what happened to you (and even if it did, making someone suffer as proxy in revenge for the actions of another person is wrong) all it does is make you feel superior to people who are also struggling and are high risk for negative outcomes.
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madpunks · 1 year
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every schizospec person deserves respect- severely paranoid schizospec people who struggle to form relationships, schizospec people who can't form complete sentences and struggle to converse, schizospec people who talk about their delusions with strangers, schizospec people who can't tell reality from fiction, schizospec people who are affected and unnerved by their hallucinations, schizospec people who struggle with hygiene and dressing themselves, schizospec people who can't double bookkeep, homeless schizospec people, addicted schizospec people, unmedicated schizospec people, and so on and so forth. all of us, not just those of us who can hold down jobs or be in education
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thenullepisode · 4 months
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Sup y'all‼🕊🐚⛓💉
I've made my own new SCHIZOSPEC (↭)💥 super wicked epic cool flag‼‼‼(made by an schizotic bipolar [psychotic schizospec/schizoaffective])
Each color has their own meaning, and even IRL is there❗💪⛓🧪
Is for every schizospec ever, and schizospec only🤘 FEEL FREE to use as pfp and credit me ^___^ my schizopals🤝🥼🗯
I've heard this symbol "↭" was made for schizospecs in general but others say is just for schizophrenia, correct me if I'm wrong please 🤸‍♂️🤼‍♂️🤼‍♂️🧞‍♂️🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏼‍♂️🥗🃏🎭🏴‍☠️
Credit to @actuallyschizophrenic for creating "↭" 🙏🙏🙏.
#schizospecflag #irlcreature hashtags would help a lot to make this more popular, I'd appreciate a real lot🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️🧪🧪🧪 reblogs be sick as hell too🤘🤘🤘
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shewalkssonme · 4 months
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If you’re not schizo you’re not schizo posting
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