Schizotypal personality disorder

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Hi guys.

I just got diagnosed with this. Anyone else here with it? Is this a serious diagnose?

Yes, it's a serious diagnoses.
I myself have schizotypal tendencies, but propably not strong enough to dx me with.

It has some overlapping with ASD though, but something different.

i'm schizotypal also.

Hi auntblabby.

What are your days like?

My half brother had schizophrenia and I recognize some traits that he had in me.
But I would say that I'm still in the "normal range" and in those areas where I'm not, it's mostly overlapping with autism.

Also with my bipolar suspicion they would propably put me right away in schizoaffective, if my schizo*-traits would be more strong.

But my personal opinion is that Bipolar and schizotypal is still something different than schizoaffective, because the positive-symptoms of schizophrenia are mostly missing, like there is no psychosis in schizotypal.

But I have to say that once under a lot of stress I had symptoms close to psychosis. So I'm right on the edge of those diagnoses, but still just a bipolar suspicion from my shrink, because nothing else strong enough.

Schizotypal personality disorder is probably about as severe as AS, in terms of the impairment that results.

I have one in my class. He actually has very severe StPD what is very rare.
He is a lot more obvious and different in his behaviour and thinking than I am.

hiya Silje welcome to our cool club
sunday through friday, they are largely the same- get up noonish [i'm a nightowl], eat a banana and peanut butter, take vitamins/scripts, go out and exercise, come back in and stretch while i'm still warm, read paper and eat breakfast [for me, in the early afternoon], putter around a bit, get on puter and peruse emails and wrong planet, do some audio work [i'm an amateur audio restoration tech] listen to a bit of music, watch a bit of telly, do occupational therapy exercises for my elbow which got owied in a recent bike accident, go to bed. repeat as needed. but on saturdays i reserve that day for errands, as i prefer the relatively sparse weekend traffic to hectic and crowded weekday traffic. i go into town to get my groceries and such, then go back home. every now and then i stop off at my sister's place. i realize this is not everybody's cup of tea but for me it works. so far.

now please tell me, what are YOUR days like? enquiring minds want to know.

I'm mostly at home, on the computer =) Then i take long walks, go to therapy once a week. that's about it
Are you in therapy?

^^^
i was in therapy on about 10 separate occasions [on average lasting between 2 and 3 years at a time], over most of my life. haven't seen a shrink in a decade now. i discovered how to be my own shrink.
if you habitually talk long walks, that is helping you i am sure. a lot of mental/psychological healing work can be done via long walks. president harry truman would do the same thing, to help him think through things.

Salutations.

From what I have read, there are issues present in SPD, including the typical co-morids (depression and anxiety), social isolation, and an increased potential of developing full-blown Schizophrenia; however, like all disorders, hope still exists. I wish all of you the absolute best in managing your conditions. May you all find happiness and healing.

I suspect that if I were to pursue an official diagnosis of anything, if my autistic symptoms prove not to be autistic enough for the DSM V autism spectrum disorder, and if such professionals felt the need to diagnose me with something that encompasses my peculiarities, I would likely fall somewhere on the schizophrenic spectrum--most likely Schizotypical Personality Disorder, though I would not discount Multiple Complex Developmental Disorder (a dash of autism with a lick of schizophrenia). Of course, I am beginning to accept that I may just be neurovariant-not other specified-- just so innately and neurologically bizarre yet functionally capable that diagnostic labels can hold no merit.