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What is Schizoid Personality Disorder?

Dr. Becky Spelman | The Human Pattern

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In today's video one of our junior practitioners Vasiliki Gkofa talks about Schizoid Personality Disorder. Vasiliki Gkofa is a Clinical Psychology graduate and has completed her MSc in Clinical Neuropsychiatry from King's College London and MSc in Mental Health Research from University College London (UCL).

Dr. Becky Spelman is a top Psychologist in London, Becky is the Clinic Director for Private Therapy Clinic which has clinic's based all around central London including; Harley Street, Wigmore Street, Bank, Earls Court & Canary Wharf. Becky uses Psychodynamic Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Mindfulness to treat a range of difficulties with a particular interest in Borderline Personality Disorder and the difficulties that go with this condition such as relationship difficulties, anxiety, depression, low-self esteem, social anxiety, fear of public speaking, fear of intimacy, interpersonal difficulties, anger, body image issues, eating disorders and addictions.

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20 Comments

@humanbeing5300 1 year ago (edited)

I choose to be alone. No stress, do whatever I want. Very peaceful way to be. If running around being controlled by other people, talking about nothing, fake conversations is considered normal than call me crazy

@unicornqueenz5001 4 years ago

What upsets me the most about the personality disorders I've studied is the fact that there's very little research on them. Often times people with these personality disorders have to help themselves do their own research, which means relying on themselves and others who have the disorder. It really makes me question what these researchers are actually researching.

@richardhayes706 4 years ago

I knew I had this before a diagnosis at 27.
If only I knew this from the beginning of my life things would have been more clear. Sometimes I wonder how I have got through life knowing there’s something really different about me and not taking action . I’m so cut off I wouldn’t have wanted any attention even from family .. it’s very frightening as an adult to deal with this never mind being a child, then through to Adolescence and beyond. It’s so obvious to people that I’m so isolated and just see you as a thing not a person etc ..

@jamesmacdonald3819 3 years ago

I am now absolutely positive I suffer/have suffered from this. I am very wary of self-diagnosis, and approached this topic after a fried suggested I consider this - and from the point of view I do NOT have this issue....and after several months and many sources (including this one) I can't deny it any longer. Indeed, I now see it's prevalence in my whole life.
My father and mother split shortly after I was born because of his alcoholism. Consequently I was raised by my mother who had to work 2-3 jobs to support us. I was a 'Latch Key' kid of late 80's-90's , looking after myself for several hours a day at 8 yrs old. Most of my memories from childhood involve being in my room alone playing RISK and Monopoly by myself.
We moved to the country a couple years before highschool, and was mercilessly bullied and ostracized by most of my peers.
Thus, my formative psychological experiences and perceptions about life were: Father is gone, Mother is always working, no kids at school that are friendly.
Thus the stage was set for a strange melancholy and detachment (plus a weird Low-key resentment towards my mother, whom I only speak to a few times a year - and she lives 15 mins away.

@debi.nemo82 3 years ago

All my whole life I thought I was weird and I felt judged having to explain why I'm always alone!! and I even lost my old age at 39 years of age and I feel that I am strange to people which makes me close myself even more, now I think maybe this is the type of disorder or the personality that I have.

@Doctorul 2 years ago

I am a schizoid person. I just click here because woman speaking is very cute and charismatic

@curiousgemini 1 year ago

I have some of the traits of this disorder, but I have empathy. And I'm not always indifferent about praise or criticism.

@rexrobertson2219 3 years ago

I tick most of the boxes for SPD.

I will never seek formal diagnosis.

I don't want to be "treated" or "cured".

I don't see this as a "disorder"; it's how I am; the "normal" world appears disordered to me.

I prefer to be alone & that differs significantly from being lonely.

@johnsmith-bh1pi 4 years ago

I am one. It is not a disorder. It is a blessing. It is total recognition and acceptance of reality the way it is and living ones life accordingly. Is the delusion of the crowd better? Only if you are delusional.

@ROLEPLAYA64 7 months ago

I was shown no affection as a child. I remember my father holding my hand once. I wasn't even called my name. I've always felt I was in a bubble of sorts - or maybe the rest of the world is, like watching a tv show. I feel much safer alone, although at 61, I'm beginning to get afraid of old age. I've always find it very much easier to empathise and connect with animals. I don't care (or rather, I don't have emotions) based on praise or criticism.

@anhedona 4 years ago

I often see the cirle of "spd is connected to psychosis/schizofrenia" but there is actually very little reaserch for that. this disorder has be overal quite neglected when it comes to research so if this narrative comes from only one source - can you check on how many patients/test subjects did they even include? when you look at how spd functions irl its similair to autism, not schizofrenia. the difference is we dont seek out connection and do understand social cues - we just dont care to follow them. pushing this psychosis /schizofrenia narrative seems to be harmful and only done because of the name similarity.

@leahr9038 1 year ago

I like being this way, but judgment and misunderstanding, the awkwardness, make it painful

@Ogxgcfu 3 years ago

You are such a sweet person mam. You can heal anyone.

@SpaceCattttt 4 years ago

As someone with lifelong AvPD, I must say that being schizoid sounds preferable!

@veetour 4 years ago

At 4:20, you talk about people with Avoidant PD being hypersensitive to rejection, but people with Schizoid PD being indifferent to rejection. Well, I disagree. From my readings, those with Schizoid PD also have a fear of rejection. They may go through periods of all-consuming relationships to then have complete isolation and detachment from relationships. It’s the all-or-nothing approach to relationships, where there is a need to be completed by the other person.

@I-Am-He 2 years ago (edited)

As soon as I clicked onto the video I couldn’t help but think “whoa her personality is a bit too much for me 😂.” Anyone else get that? Im sure she’s a very lovely individual… just a little too excitable.

I haven’t been clinically diagnosed with SPD but… I’m 99% sure I have it based upon this description and other videos I have watched.

@audiobook_freak 1 year ago

If it’s a direct result of bullying, then it’s not a disorder, it’s an adjustment.

@ZoopTheDripLord 2 years ago

I’m some what confused on the root problem with this diagnosis. In this video and other sources I researched they say it is different from avoidant personality disorder because the person with APD actually wants social interaction as opposed to the person with scizoid personality disorder. Is the problem that deep down the person with schizoid personality disorder does have a need to connect with others but is in denial of it as some sort of trauma response?