Schizotypal Forum

...because I have. There's a lot of talk about loneliness and not having friends of the forum, and I'm wondering if this is true for most people here.

It just doesn't fit - the people I know IRL who have StPD have friends, it is just on this forum I hear about people not having friends, like it's the *major* criteria for schizotypal disorder. I am wondering if a lot of people here don't really have the disorder, but feel lonely and unsociable and thus seek this kind of community.

Feel free to disagree with me.

I couldnt anwer your questiionaire because I dont have any close freinds...I normally find I make freinds but freindship fades..pretty quickly, when they see am not all there... .I am not even close to my family I keep all my feelings to my self.
I haven't been diagnosed with SPD, but I feel I cant relate to it very strongly, and not just because I have not friends, the reason I probably have no friends os because of all the rest...lol..thinking of doing therapy again, but not sure...any advice? Should I see a Psychologist or psychiatrist?

Hey mystery teacher,
I edited the poll and added 0 as an option.

I think the guideline for going to see a pdoc or tdoc is if you feel something is so wrong that it interferes with your normal functioning. If you find you can't keep a job, keep up with school or with socializing.

As for who you should see, I would suggest to start off with a pdoc. They can give you an accurate diagnosis. You could also go to a tdoc, and they might advise you to see a pdoc if they think you need meds.

hi there,
not sure what a pdoc is or a tdoc...enlighten me please... he he

oh, and I did the test and scored 54...how accurate is that test?

A tdoc is a therapist (psycologist)
A pdoc is a psychiatrist

Well I am going to be 42 this year, 'friends have always told me that there is something wrong..that I am offensive or 'out of context', and dont make sense a lot of the time, I have never had a job for more than a year. But only now am I seeing the problems with interacting with other people. On superficial level I am ok, but when things get personal it is a problem.

I am front of house in a restaurante, and I really thought I had got over my nervousness with people. But not on the personal level. I have a lot of paranoia, and think people are talking about me, and they ussually are because they find me 'odd'. The way I dress or whatever. I either look over dressed or shabby..(cant seem to stay consistant)

Anyway I have had to say to my work colleagues, one of whom is not speaking to me, that I am gonna be absent and not to take it personnaly, by this I mean I am limiting communication. No chit chat...just essencial stuff.

One of the reasons is because conversation distracts me and I forget what I am doing
and two, they get upset when I ask them things etc, because of my tone...and my face apparently... It seems my expression doesnt match my inner emotions...
I am dubious about seeking help really...cos I will get more paranoid...

even though I am in a place where I can be helped, the Restaurant is in a holistic healing centre, I am closing up again, even to people I was warming to.
But...I have sold 2 paintings within a week...it is a sign...

I think the worst part about friendship is that Schizotypals envision themselves as kings and queens of a surreal inner world that is better than the "real" world. And anyone we try to be friendly with either can't handle it or stays with us with a sense of pity or "despite" ourselves. Many of them simply do not believe that our thoughts are this strange or admire it as simply a deeper connection to creativity. This is infuriating, especially when they pitty. Don't they know that inside the dreamworld (or whatever, summerlands, collective unconscious, shadow world, ect) I am a king, lord and magistrate? I would often think. Rarely, I would meet someone who admired me for my creativity (I do it all of course, writing, art, music) and guess that my lunacy was the key to it (witch i guess it is) and there is a tollerance that can grow into friendship/love. I have always had only one real friend at any one time and this is me streaching beyond myself and struggling to have enough affect for the other person, with friends it is easy but with a lover it is incredibly difficult. The amazing thing is, from talking to other schizotypals on other forums and communities (witch is unnerving by the way [i'm even feeling it after reading the above post] because being schizotypal means not having a unique personality, many of the other posters on those forums sound exactly like me, only gender and details are sometimes different) i realized that while my paranoia is high , my affect isn't as low as theirs typically. I have more "desire" to exist with others than my personality cousins. Of course I currently have several friends, one very good friend and she lets me into her world of friends who have gotten used to me and the distance is tollerable for me. Often I have to pretend I care about them when I don't but recently I was surprised when some of them told me directly that I was their good friend. But I count myself an exception to the rule, just like not all schizotypals are as paranoid as I am. I repress it, sort of, but when I tell my girlfriend jokingly that I think she's a robot from the future sent to spy on me because I will one day bring a magical apocolypse to earth, she knows it is only half toungue in cheek. I can't get rid of the paranoia. But as a general rule, it does seem Schizotypals have few friends. That may be changing with the changing of the culture. We and our kind (schizophrenics, eccentrics, obsessive compulsives, multiple personality) have been shunned in this world with no use for artists and shaman, but that is rapidly chagning. I hope.

I had friends during my formative, important years. I quite frankly don't know what would have happened to me back then if I hadn't. But like everything else we all faded away. At first I missed them but now I don't. My changes in outlook and interests have placed a divide between me and just about anyone else I meet. I have all the functions necessary to enjoy a friendless life I am glad to say.

It's weird. I kind of have friends.. but I rarely see or speak to them. They say they like me because I'm 'extremely quirky'. :x Eh, weird friendships..