Schizoid personality disorder
Schizoid personality disorder is a personality disorder characterized by a lack of interest in social relationships, a tendency toward a solitary or sheltered lifestyle, reservedness, emotional coldness, detachment, and . Affected individuals may be unable to form intimate attachments to others and simultaneously possess a rich and elaborate but exclusively internal fantasy world. Other associated features include stilted speech, a lack of deriving enjoyment from most activities, feeling as though one is an "observer" rather than a participant in life, an intolerance towards meeting emotional expectations of others, apparent indifference when praised or criticized, being on the asexual , and idiosyncratic moral or political beliefs.
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Symptoms — what it feels like
- ·Pervasive emotional detachment, reduced affect, lack of close friends, , anhedonia, unintentional insensitivity to social norms, sexual abstinence, preoccupation with fantasy, autistic thinking without loss of skill to recognize reality
Causes — why it happens
- ·Family history; cold, indifferent, or intrusive parenting; traumatic brain injury; low birth weight;
How it's found
- ·Based on symptoms
Treatment
- ·Psychodynamic ; behavioral therapy
Outlook
- ·Typically poor