Thread 81653818

any schizoid bots on here? how did you realize that you had it?

135 iq aspergers here, schizoid diagnosis forcfully ruined 100% of my life, diagnosed by indian immigrants in canada, i look really jewish

When it fully dawned on me how abnormal it was to literally have no desire to reach out or talk to anyone 1on1 or make friends irl or online, I'll probably live in my head and my fantasies till I die

>>81653842
>>81653848
Is it a cope scenario to have spd or is it a no fucks given?

>>81653882
Maybe a bit of both, depends I guess
For me it's definitely a heavy copium

>>81653848
This. People apparently have an inherent desire to socialize and it's as strong as the desire to eat and drink. I simply don't have it and don't understand others that do.
>>81653882
It's not cope. Schizoids literally don't want to socialize and don't enjoy interaction with others. There are moments of FOMO and loneliness, but those don't last long and are overshadowed by the dread of actually interacting with human beings.

>>81653958
>>81653953
I think I have schizoid. the only thing I have that's not it is desire to connect with others but even then i think it's conditioned in FOMO. is that even possible?

>>81653818 (OP)
Yes, not much to say besides the fact that from time to time I do care for attention and love but just the fantasized versions of it in my mind, it's never like i wanted it to be

>>81653958
Is this true that people have a strong desire to socialize? It's almost a physical need? I've never felt that.

>>81653818 (OP)
>vulnerable to esoteric movements owing to a strong need to belong
I suppose being /here/ may qualify

>>81653966
Yeah being a schizoid isn't a completely rigid thing I don't think. I also have a longing sometimes to make connections but it's purely out of a fear of missing out in experiencing things. Ultimately I never act on it though, which I think is the big thing that sets me apart from non schizoids. Normies actively go out and seek these friendships and relationships when they feel longing or the need to, I don't. I literally do not talk to anyone outside of interactions on this imageboard, no multiplayer games, no online friends, nothing.

>>81653977
Normal people's desire to socialize is in fact so strong that many are willing to interact with other human beings (both for pleasure and business) often to the detriment of their own self interest. The need to belong and be a part of some social group is very strong in most people. I'm not one of these people and have never felt this yearning especially because friends often end up hurting you in some way. Also being social is incredibly time and energy consuming thing that requires constant upkeep (need to socialize everyday or text). It's exhausting.

None of you newniggers are "schizoid," especially not first post worst post LARPing about having a real diagnosis to prove it. Go outside and get some friends and stop self-diagnosing by reading broadly applicable horse shit online.

>>81653818 (OP)
I read about this some years back.
I would be a schizoid, as I love hermiting and avoidance; except that I really want to have sex.
Though with my 'tism, NEETdom and hovel, I will never get it. Feels bad, man.

>>81654085
It doesn't exist in a real sense, it's just a way of classifying personality habits into a bucket.
>Go outside and get some friends
Ok I didn't realize you were joking, disregard.

>>81654091
kek. heard that one awhile ago

>>81654085
>yeah dude just go and destroy your life even more my being stamped as mentally ill by coffee sipping former stacys with a fancy sheet of paper they call a psychology degree

>>81654336
Well at least one could get on welfare with a stamped ticket

>>81653818 (OP)
I'm just clever, self-aware and VERY asocial.
I don't want these faggy diagnosis. Fuck this personality disorder shit. So much of psychology is retardedly unscientific.
As soon as they say shit like "uh yeah it depends on culture though" i dunno how anyone can take this stuff seriously. Just pointless classification that doesnt help anyone with anything aside from making them feel special.

>>81653818 (OP)
im pretty sure i have this, though i never really thought about it until i randomly came across it at some point. before then i always assumed that people were like me but just pretended to enjoy other peoples company and i could never understand why, i always imagined social interactions as just another kind of job that you were required to do in order to be alive, but apparently some people actually enjoyed it. even when i had sex in my late teens i didnt understand it and just did my part until it was over without really being present at all. i even met a girl too that i approached in public and went on a date with because i liked the movie taxi driver and thought it was the thing to do, but then completely ghosted her out of the blue for seemingly no reason other than i thought she was a bit annoying, she even kept calling me where i never picked up the phone and never regretted it ever. i also have no friends or acqaintances apart from my immediate family, who hardly even knows me, and spent all my waking hours on the computer, i eat nothing and my room is extremely messy, yet somehow im perfectly fine with all of this and dont see any reason why i would change anything. whenever i read long posts about people being sad or depressed i also dont understand why, in general all kinds of emotional language just fly over my head and my family often imply that i am holding back on my affect not realizing that there is nothing ther to hold back. i dont think this is an illness though since i function fine otherwise, and am fine being like this

thanks for reading my blog

>>81654858
Kek I've told people socializing feels like work and they think I'm insulting them

>>81654085
I really want to know what's wrong with me though and I absolutely cannot place it.

I haven't felt love or affection for a woman since I was a teenager and I'm deeply terrified of human interaction that goes beyond mere fear, it feels something in the back of my head that's just primal. I'm not gay and feel nothing for men

I feel and follow social expectation, and do things to better myself but nothing ever like, fills the void in me.

It doesn't mean I dont want things, I like the idea of relationships and dating but I cannot connect with another person.

I'm also morally weird, have odd political beliefs, in social situations tend to be acceptable yet "eclectic" and absolutely need to feel involved. In fact the whole chart speaks to me.

>>81654912
There is NOTHING wrong with you you dumb faggot. You sound traumatised which can be fixed by doing therapy by yourself as long as you commit to it.
You just want a label to stick to your forehead so you can sit down and wallow in inaction forever.

>>81654934
I can't afford therapy, it's hugely expensive where I live ($600 an hour). I have to cope how I can.

>>81654910
same. i have a tendency to insult people in general without realizing it. i will be at a family gathering or something then sometimes people will look at me funny or give me weird looks because i said something that fell out of the circle of allowed responses. im not even being edgy i just dont understand which is why i prefer surface-level conversations and dont respond to personal questions. i view personal questions as crossing my boundaries and being extremely invasive which other people dont really understand either

>>81654942
By yourself. You can do therapy by yourself if you just learn how it works. It's really not that complicated and industry is a scam. For most people with "depression", a couple of self-help books can suffice, though not for you.
Stop trying to find labels for your (((condition))) and learn about the foundational elements of psychology.

>>81654946
That's just autism and a reluctance to socialise yourself properly.

>>81653818 (OP)
Took a long time to develop but I do not care about making friends or having a girlfriend. Don't care about having kids either. Don't want sex in general. Seems like too much effort. I just don't care about people in general. I like my solitude being alone which is why I'm a NEET. Nothing really peaks my interests barely play video games anymore. Just kinda watch anime/youtube shorts until I eventually get tired enough to sleep. I'm probably schizoid but I don't give a shit if I am.

>>81654952
I've tried infinity self help books, videos, etc. The one thing I acknowledge is I need to feel powerful and in control as opposed to "have good self esteem", however I'm still not sure how I put this in my life.

>>81653818 (OP)
When I found out about SzPD, read about the "symptoms" and realized I have about half of them. I don't consider it a disorder. Seems more like an attempt to make hardcore introversion look like a disorder. My life is going fine and I very much enjoy some activities (vidya, cooming, drinking). I even have two friends I see once every 2 weeks. I just don't have much of a desire to socialize IRL and have no interest in sex and relationships. I mean, I'd want to have sex but the risks and effort aren't worth it. I just can't imagine myself committing to another person as it would take away too much of my freedom and solitude. Average normies with families look imprisoned from my POV. I'm also taking steps to ensure I retire in my 40s because the constant socializing at the office job I have is bothering me. And I realize this isn't even bad compared to other jobs.

>>81653818 (OP)
I used to think that I was schizoid, turned out I was just being a pussy and fixed it with hyper aggressiveness

>>81653818 (OP)
A lot of that, most of it to be honest, applies to me.
I think I'm just mindbroken from my self-imposed isolation though, not a true schizoid, I'm sure I could be normal again with CBT.

>>81655047
>fixed it with hyper aggressiveness
What do you mean by this?

>>81655071
I don't know, I just don't know who I am anymore
I don't know which me is the real me or if there even is a real me at this point

>>81653818 (OP)
i have almost every single one of those
is this one of those "throw everything at the wall and see if it sticks" or am i genuinely a crazy person?

I'm le edgy sociopath but kind. If I'm not schizoid I'm something way worse but I'm pretty sure I am. Not that I'd ever bring it up to a therapist if I ever saw one.
>>81655047
I've realized I've been avoiding doing things that require others to rely on me, or evaluate me. Putting it off until I reach perfection. So indefinitely.

Ex not dating till I have a perfect body or whatever.

Like I was buying boosts in an MMO so I could have good enough gear to stomp instances with random ppl instead of joining groups to earn it with proper difficulty and potentially failing.

Avoiding anything that would have people judge me or trigger an insecurity. This behaviour was genuinely invisible to me until recently. If you asked me a week ago id have said idgaf what anyone thinks about me.

Once I weeded it out in self reflection I realized how all pervasive it was and I'm arrogant as shit so once I saw I was doing it, I'm directly targeting it now.

Tldr yeah I'm forcing myself to aggressively do things I was being a pussy about too. Who cares if I'm neet I'll catfish that bpd goth chick into a date

>>81653818 (OP)
>how did you realize that you had it?
self diagnosis by schizoid-chan

>>81655214
lol that's me to a t

>>81653958
>>81653977
You typed these responses out of your innate desire to socialize. Everyone has it. In your case it just is a weak enough force to go unnoticed and be fully satisfied by (You)s on the mongolian underwater basket weaving forum. It is like so called asexual people, its not a thing, just extreme low libido.

>>81653818 (OP)
>a disorder identified by zero urge for socialization
>let me socialize about it on 4chong
You are fine, anons.

that's just car at this point
car is clearly important

>>81653818 (OP)
me. around 18-19 is when i started suspecting it and 25 i knew for sure.
>>81653882
depends on what you mean. schizoids genuinely are loners and do not give realtime fucks but the entire condition itself is a cope in response to early relational wounding
>>81653966
not typical to be aware of imo but not uncommon either. you may want connection but it's just not feasible as the cons outweigh the pros (the risk is too great) so rarely action is taken. personally anything similar only happens to me in dreams. i'll have very emotional and cathartic dreams every other month, idk if that happens for others too. but i really enjoy those and think about them for days afterward

>>81655334
Bro doesn't realize he's a Quora substitute. Chasing info isn't a desire to socialize.

>>81655415
Quora is social media, and he is here to socialize under the guise of chasing info. It was not his primary reason for making the OP. If it was, he would have done real research and gotten better and more accurate information than he ever would from the average incurious r9k zoomie

>>81653818 (OP)
Not diagnosed but I started figuring everything out within the past couple of years or so. Everything on this image is literally me.

>>81654336
>>81654750
I've been battling this decision my whole life. Used to think my mom was shitty for never getting me diagnosed with anything but now I realize she protected me

I'd love to get on disability and be able to relax but I don't want my entire life permanently ruined by some dumb bitch who cheated her way into a psychology degree

I'm not schizo but my trauma makes me act that way. I don't talk to people unless they are my family or lover. Literally nobody else matters to me

>>81653818 (OP)
I believe disorders like schizoid are 100% jewish fabrications. They are designed to chastise and castrate individuals oppose the social norm.
Many of the symptoms of schizoid are rational conclusions and behaviors to the world we live in, and it's only the jew's doing to tell him that HE is the insane one.

>>81653818 (OP)
Anyone else have delusional relationships and people in their head. I really just want to find the cause for the way that I am.

>>81655686
>yet you participate in autistic image boards. curious! I am very intelligent

>>81655887
I have a whole storyline in my head. I'm pretty sure I know what you mean because all the characters are my darlings and when plotting out an emotionally charged scene I end up crying myself to sleep that lmao.

Anyway I am not schizoid, "just" autistic, and I've been to several mental health professionals so they would have told me if I were schizoid.

What you describe is a special interest in the story you created in your head. So if you're not doing too well, you could go get diagnosed as autistic. Or if you want to enjoy the same rights as other people, like gun rights, don't go, but maybe look into autism.

I was diagnosed with it. I didn't even know about it. I thought I was avoidant.

>>81656174
Not autistic, and not what you describe, sorry.
They aren't characters to me, they're real people.
They aren't part of some fictional story, they're in my life.
Its borderline delusion.

>>81655214
How do you know you're not a victim of circumstance here?

Thought I might be a schizoid for quite some time, but then I realized I was probably just a very emotionally stunted avoidant suffering from severe complex trauma. Not fully sure though.

Either way self-identifying as schizoid seems like a very easy cope. The idea of actually not wanting relationships is much easier for ego to accept rather then the reality that you want and deeply crave relationships, but for whatever reason can't attain them.

>>81655887
I do tend to have way more fictional conversations with people I know than actual conversations. Sometimes I map it to play out possible outcomes of conversations so I mentally prepare some responses, so I won't fuck up way too much.

Still, this sort of thing isn't all too uncommon coping mechanism for children with cold or unsafe/unpredictable parents. Children then don't feel too comfortable interacting/speaking with their parents then internalizes their relationship with parents as something being wrong with them and themselves being unlovable or people in general being unsafe, in which case the child learns to rather have imaginary conversations in their own head over speaking with others to avoid getting rejected and hurt, like they did with their own parents.

>>81656544
do you also write long responses to threads and posts only to delete it? i do that a lot
it's as if imagining posting it and the responses it could get becomes enough, and because of this the "risk" have outweighed the rewards by the end of it and i just delete it.
i guess it's the same thing you're doing in a way

>>81653842
>schizoid diagnosis forcfully ruined 100% of my life
How?

i have nearly every symptom of schizoid except a lack of romantic desire. i want nothing more than an equally schizoid partner who has no interest in talking to anyone but me

>>81653818 (OP)
I thought I was a schizoid for a while but my psychiatrist said I was coping and gave me happy pills, turns out she was right.

>>81657592
The bux aren't all that you imagine them to be and a mental illness diagnosis is almost as bad as a felony conviction when it comes to ruining future career prospects.

>>81657655
You dont need to meet the entire checklist of the diagnostic criteria. Only the majority of them.

>>81653818 (OP)
SPD isn't even a personality disorder because it doesn't negatively impacts the persons life.
I'm almost completely asocial, but I do want a girlfriend so I don't think I'm a schizoid.

>>81657748
>SPD isn't even a personality disorder because it doesn't negatively impacts the persons life.
Bullshit. SPD is statistically one of the worst traits when it comes to quality of life. For example, a disproportionate amount of homeless people are schizoids.

>>81657302
I sometimes type posts to delete them, but it's rather rare. The impersonality of anonymous website takes the effect away. Honestly these sorts of things tend to vanish with enough exposure, but if you keep avoiding and dissociating, then it'll never change. The only way is to keep putting yourself out there and realize that things aren't as bad as your worst fears, though I myself was never able to push through, always stuck in my own ways.

>>81657748
it rates really low in life satisfaction and life success/achievements like other anon said. the negative symptoms overlap with schizophrenia.
>>81658009
i've thought about it more and i think it's more to do with me having no internal monologue. so writing becomes a way of journaling/thinking things through in a way. then when i thought through it (wrote it) it may look a bit different than what i imagined before and i'll delete it. writing it becomes a big part of the point of doing it, not just sharing it. i now wonder if i dissociated from and suppressed the internal monologue too as part some schizoid defense. i always assumed it was natural cognitive variation and it probably usually is for most but idk. i imagine life without it can be much more comfortable without it depending on the content

>>81658543
i 'hear' absolutely nothing when reading text or typing this text. its all conceptual and visual

>>81658543
I'm not too familiar with lack of internal monologue. It's a bit of a strange thing to me personally as I mostly retreat to and live in my own head, so constant stream of voices in my mind is almost a default state of being to me.

I've recently came across the idea that analysing and critiquing in your own mind is actually fairly intellectually demanding act, as you need to keep in your own mind multiple differing voices with different opinions, which people with low intellect find difficult and thus tend to vocalize and verbalize their thoughts. That's why some people speak their thoughts aloud or tell others their mind. It's a way of thinking for them as doing that purely in their own mind is very challenging. Maybe it's similar for you with writing. It's the only thing that I can think of. Doing in writing what you can't do in your own head.

>>81658726
i've never heard of it being correlated with iq, but what you're saying does make some sense, as it is an added function and contributes to complexity. people with it can also learn not to do it while people without it cant really gain it, though some can force it. i still think all the time but just dont hear it narrated. i can do in my own head what i do in writing, it's just "different" when writing it. more concrete. and maybe since i dont do it in the same way mentally i enjoy doing it in written form.

>which people with low intellect find difficult and thus tend to vocalize and verbalize their thoughts. That's why some people speak their thoughts aloud or tell others their mind.
i think you could substitute low intellect with no internal monologue here which is mainly just a different mode. and since they dont have internal monologue they may tend to ramble, or backtrack more. i know i do and it can be frustrating to explain things irl sometimes. because i have to "translate it" from nonverbal thought to words

>>81658859
Low intellect was the context I came across the concept. It didn't occur to me before, but retroactively it did seem to fit that only people I know that aren't the brightest were verbalizing their own thoughts while thinking. I have no clue whether lack of internal monologue is associated with lower intelligence, though my guess would be that there probably isn't strong correlation, but that's just a baseless guess. I could see how someone with lacking internal monologue would do a couple of things a bit different than someone with internal monologue and typing out thoughts would seem like a pretty decent fit.

Thinking about it a bit, typing out things might be pretty similar to actually verbalizing things in your own head, as written words correspond to said words, meaning that writing out thoughts might just have the same goal and effect as saying them in your own mind. Just a hunch that I didn't sit on for long, but so far I could see it as an actual thing.

>>81653818 (OP)
>/r9k/
>self-sufficient
lol
have mommy bring you more tendies or THE PISS BOTTLES ARE GETTING DUMPED OUT IN THE LIVING ROOM
anyways you're just a shy nerd. why does everything have to be a fuckin diagnosis with you people?

>>81659044
yeah that's what i'm coming to think as well. it's similar to 'hearing' them in that it locks it down to something distinct and more concrete

>>81653818 (OP)
Has anyone ever managed to heal schizoid PD?`

>>81660324
I would assume that prognosis of a schizoid isn't much better than one of a narcissist. It's mostly a losing battle that most of the times never even begins, It's just endless suffering that gets relieved only with the sweet kiss of death.

>>81657748
probably not. actual SCHIZOid PD is about ego splitting, not just about being some kind of epic, emotionless loner like schizoid chan. it's a part of the schizophrenia spectrum
>schizo (split) and phrene (mind)
actual schizoids are split off from their emotional and social needs to an extent they can't even recognize them and don't really even have a proper "self" to begin with. it's all fractured and undeveloped, fragile and unstable, pushing the schizoid to desperately cope with this by withdrawing emotions from the world and even internally until there's nothing left.

>>81660461
Schizoid - When your helplessness is so deep that instead of dealing with pain and negative emotions you'd rather forgo all emotions altogether.

It might be the ultimate form of giving up and running away. A life of permanent dissociation.

>>81660583
It never really even began.

>>81660583
Idk my family life growing up was pretty normie, I just constantly broke my family's heart by being distant as a young adult.

>>81661394
>Idk my family life growing up was pretty normie
what are you comparing it to, exactly? how would you truly know?

>>81657705
How would potential employers even get access to your diagnosis?

>>81661425
All my buddy's families when I was in school. It was just a normie upper middle class life.
Never neglected, abused, or unsupported in fact family was too clingy. None of my family has any pd or mental illness either.

>>81660583
yes. i've always intuited that i am a coward. despite often catching myself feeling better than a lot of people

>>81660324
>the therapist attempts to 'rescue' the schizoid pretending to care like a parent
And that right there is why it will never fucking work. If I know you're faking it, then I know you're insincere and not worth even talking to. There's no 'cure' or 'treatment' for the a schizoid. We've stepped out of society and we're not checking back in. Early formative years taught me that my already calcified my heart towards the world would keep me safe. And it does. And I won't be fooled by pretenders and actors who want to change me while feigning great love for me. That shit just pisses me off.

>>81660461
nta but i do not really feel very "split". i seem not to have preserved even much of a private self for me to have. i have zero internal monologue and not a rich fantasy life like so many others. i now wonder if my condition is more severe than i thought. yet i do not feel empty, dead or particularly disassociated. just neutral, and flat.
but could that also make sense as the empty dissociated feeling would come from the living experience of being split?
since i am not even split but may have nuked the entire thing i would not feel this. or even if i did, i always would have, so there would be no contrast to definitely know that i was.
just thinking out loud and maybe someone has input

>>81653818 (OP)
this image i feel like is exposing me lmao, i think i might have it, feel free to ama

>>81662205
it seems like i have undergone ego fragmentation/minimization instead of splitting. maybe its interesting for anyone reading

>>81662205
internal poverty of experience is only the natural outcome of overusing schizoid defences. if you're internally cut off from all that makes you feel like a human being, all the vulnerability and weakness of emotions and attachment needs, then over time you'll obviously turn dull and flat.
it's genuinely only the more higher functioning, less profoundly schizoid individuals who can maintain that internal richness with all the wonderful fantasy life and whatnot. worse functioning ones will mostly just have an empty core, with nothing to really offer.
self-disorders also become more relevant on the less functioning end
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-disorder

>>81662489
if you're schizoid, then it's more likely you never managed to build a proper ego in the first place, that you're stuck working with what's essentially an infantile, undeveloped form of yourself, that's never been able to be built up.

>>81662558
op here. this is the type of response i was looking for.

>>81653818 (OP)
I'm genuinely concern I schizoid, but what's the point of even acknowledging it? Is there even a cure/treatment?

>>81662558
>>81662205
thank you, this is all very interesting and i'm learning and realizing many things

>>81662558
Can you post anything more like this?

>>81662990

https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1412&context=etd

>>81653818 (OP)
When I realized the biggest hurdle to getting a job is interacting with people and I'm currently in the works of preparing to live off grid or aka homeless bum I can't stand normies I can't fucking stand face to face interaction. Any other neets hobomaxxin

>>81663048
being homeless sounds fucking awful. don't have any place to retreat to where you can be truly genuinely alone.

>>81663048
If you're going to be homeless out of choice make sure it's somewhere with good weather and some degree of safety. If you don't have those you'll quickly deteriorate and it will not be fun.

>>81653958

If I didn't have the internet, I might force myself to be more sociable. I went to this hackspace last week because I needed a laser printer. I was perfectly fine and sociable when I was there, can make jokes and be witty (or at least as much as those around me), not feel the dread of being around people because I was already there, etc. I put a 20 in the donation box for the use of their space before I left, was told to register and come back for the next meet-up, but I didn't have any interest to keep going, even if one of them explicitly said to go even if I wasn't working on something. I just don't care to be sociable and meeting new people.

I'm very lucky that I can get away without talking to people much at my job. Right now during the summer there's not a lot to do, so I'm just watching movies and TV shows at work to kill time before I can clock off. It's great. I realized in my 20's that there aren't a lot of jobs I can really do long-term. I would legitimately rather scrub toilets for 3 hours than have to chat with people for... 45 minutes. I can only do jobs that don't involve being around people, or at least you aren't expected to talk to those around you. I get to listen to music, podcasts and eBooks when I'm at work, I am truly fortunate.

I don't really put much stock into psychology though, especially after that whole reproducibility in psychology thing I read about years ago. People who prefer being solitary and don't miss their friends or family were probably just abused as kids. I match some of the bullet-points in the OP image and none of the others, it just reads like the astrology section of the newspaper.

>>81660461
whats a self? like an identity?

>>81655337
He is right yuo know, oregano.

>>81663048
That one really depends for me. In many cases it's not too bad if I can keep my distance, especially if it's a group (such as office) environment, where you can somewhat fade into the background and just participate in a fairly generic non-personal comments to try to not stand out too much. When it comes to professional interactions I tend to be fairly fine as I wouldn't expect others try to get too close and personal, so there's little in a way of fear of being exposed for the fraud and subhuman I've actually internalized myself to be.

The worst moments tend to be when people talk about their normal lives, especially relationships. You know, going outside with others. Participating in activities with others. Or just talking with people It's this weird moment, where I feel pretty bad for not being the way others seem to be, while understanding why that is and why I'm not changing it in any way. It's just a lose lose situation to me. I feel bad if being asocial, but I also feel bad when I am being social. It's just being so lost and dissociated that you don't even know, nor want to face your actually emotions, needs, desires and insecurities, which then leads to permanent state of misery as nothing ever feels nice, it's only feelings of suffering with rare moments of neutral states, which in turn turn ALL your motivation to do anything away, making your rot in an endless limbo.

Simply living with the pain and looking forward to the pain going away.

It absolutely sucks if you are trying to have a what is called 'normal' life.
If you are a NEET or rich it's pretty cool.

>>81659072
You bodied those freaks, kek. They couldn't even come up with a response.

>>81665141
Or maybe nobody gave a shit

>>81654085
>broadly applicable horse shit
...but enough about the DSM!

>>81653818 (OP)
I'm BPD + ADHD probably as far from a schizoid as you can be...but I have an interesting story lol. I was in the psych ward a month ago (lol) and I'm a fucking psycho with a death wish so I socialize in there and there was a very chill and collected looking guy reading a book...I left him alone for a few days but he seemed nice so I asked his name and he said it was Jay, 47. But...he didn't seem to interested so I left him at that lol. He was reading a book one of the free ones donated by people on the Cafeteria shelves...as the days went by I was truly impressed by his reading speed he was reading basically half a book every single day and he seemed super focused...very polite and nice guy.

I interacted with him once more we were dining together and I hit him up and asked him what he plans to do when he gets out of here: he told me that his entire life he wakes up, grabs a book from the library, goes to Fairview Mall, reads all day, goes home, goes to sleep, and repeats. Every single day for the last 30 years. And I believe him. I bet that once he gets out which he will because he doesn't seem dangerous (though idk how he ended up there maybe not xD) he will do that exact same thing until he dies. He probably lives on NEETbux/disability which is very good in my country more than enough to pay for food + rent but not much else but perfect for his "lifestyle".

This ladies and gentleman is a schizoid. It was like meeting a unicorn lol never met one in the flesh mostly because they don't fucking interact with anyone lol. I am honoured to have observed and logged one into my journal/long-term memory before I died. A truly unique specimen...if I go to Fairview mall and have a good look around I wonder what the chances are that I'll see him. Probably chilling and maybe grabbing a meal with a good book. Good sort.

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You forgot to read the bottom right corner lol. You can have 'schizoid traits' as part of a perfectly normal personality but not have clinical "schizoid personality disorder' you should never ever self-diagnose with a personality disorder (or many mental illness) it's extremely tough even for licensed clinical psychologists and many of them won't touch personality disorders with a 10-ft pole long story short severity matters alot and it has to seriously effect your life and your interpersonal relationships you're probably just a panicking normie retard.