/mental/ - Mental Health, Illnesses and Disorders

>>236
I'm schizotypal if that counts and I'm usually attracted to people who I feel can protect me more than anything. I don't wanna be with someone unstable, I wanna be with someone who has their shit together who will love me and tolerate my nonsense.

Although not professionally diagnosed, I believe I am at least slightly schizotypal. I always found myself genuinely infatuated with "crazy," yet intelligent women. In fact, they were the only women I was infatuated with so far.

No, I hate them

yes, something about craziness allures me

I dated a girl with borderline.

Worse shit I've ever gone through. I'll never do it again.

>>244
I feel the same way. I'm obsessed with a hacker right now who has a serious track record of using their skills to dominate/wreck script kiddies and she gets off to it. Not even in the pwnt sense. Literally gets off to it.

>>1936
Yeah I've read Dragon Tattoo as well.

You guys do realize that "schizoid" is schizoid personality disorder and not the same as schizotypal personality disorder or schizophrenia which are their own separate diagnoses.

>>236
Funny, just the other day there was a guy who confessed his love for Histrionics on schizoids.net.

>>2046
Schizophrenia is in some patients a progressively debilitating condition. It might get worse, it might not. It can also wax and wane with periods of relative calm and then relapse with episodes of severe psychosis. There is usually a prodrome for schizophrenia, but if you're already hallucinating then that means you're already experiencing psychosis. It's strange that his doctors would say that it's going to get worse, that's not really a guarantee. Treatment can help curb and delay symptoms. Unfortunately antipsychotics tend to also have some of the worst side effects among psychiatric medications. But we've come a long way since we were basically chemically lobtomizing people with thorazine. The treatment is probably not as bad as you might think it is.

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>>2046
>>1943
I just read that in Schizoids stress develops in full blown Schizophrenia.

I'm so fucked. I've developed sudden bouts of anger and eye twitching for the last month. I'm at a workload that makes my time in the military look like a cakewalk.

4. The schizoid-hysterical romance:


I mentioned earlier my attraction to people with schizoid psychologies. As I think about
this phenomenon and reflect on the frequency with which other heterosexual women with
hysterical dynamics seem to be drawn to men with schizoid trends, I find that in addition to my
experience of schizoid people as inspiringly honest, there are dynamic reasons for the resonance.
Clinical lore abounds with observations about hysterical/schizoid couples, about their
misunderstandings and pursuer-distancer problems, about each party’s inability to imagine that
the other sees one as powerful and demanding rather than as one sees oneself–that is, fearful and
needy. But despite our recent appreciation of two-person processes, there is surprisingly little
professional writing about the intersubjective consequences of specific and contrasting
individual psychologies. Wheelis’s short story, (1966/2000) “The Illusionless Man and the
Visionary Maid” and Balint’s (1945) classic depiction of the ocnophil and the philobat seem to
me more germane to the schizoid-hysterical chemistry than any more recent clinical writing.
The admiration between a more hysterical person and a more schizoid one is frequently
mutual. Just as the hysterically organized woman idealizes the capacity of the schizoid man to
stand alone, to “speak truth to power,” to contain affect, to tap into levels of creative imagination
that she can only dream of, the schizoid man admires her warmth, her comfort with others, her
empathy, her grace in expressing emotion without awkwardness or shame, her capacity to
experience her own creativity in relationship. To whatever extent opposites do attract, hysterical
and schizoid individuals tend to idealize each other–and then drive each other crazy when their
respective needs for closeness and space come into conflict. Doidge (2001, p. 286) memorably
compared love relations with a schizoid person to litigation.
I think the affinity between these personality types goes further, however. Both schizoid
and hysterical psychologies can be characterized as hypersensitive, as preoccupied with the
danger of being overstimulated. Whereas the schizoid person fears being overwhelmed by
external sources of stimulation, the hysterical individual feels endangered by drives, impulses,
affects, and other internal states. Both types of personality have also been associated with
trauma of the cumulative or strain variety. Both are almost certainly more right- than left-
brained. Both schizoid men and hysterical women (at least those who regard themselves as
heterosexual—my clinical experience is not vast enough for me to generalize about others) tend
to see the opposite-sex parent as the locus of power in the family, and both feel too easily
invaded psychologically by that parent. Both suffer a consuming sense of hunger, which the
schizoid person may try to tame and the hysterical person may sexualize. If I am right about
these similarities, then some of the magic between schizoid and hysterical individuals is based
on convergence rather than opposition. Arthur Robbins (personal communication) goes so far as
to say that inside every schizoid individual is a hysterical one, and vice versa.
An exploration of this idea would constitute another paper, one I hope some day to write.





From Nancy McWilliam, Some Thoughts on Schizoid Dynamics

>>8219
>I just read that in Schizoids stress develops in full blown Schizophrenia.

Any sauce on that?

>>8221
Eh. It's mentioned briefly here http://www.mentalhealth.com/home/dx/schizoidpersonality.html and I know that stress can trigger schizophrenia anyway, and if you're Schizoid you're already on the spectrum…

>>8224
>>8221
Wiki citation about Schizoid stress leading to psychosis points here

http://books.google.pt/books?id=w_HajjMnjxwC&pg=PA695#v=onepage&q&f=false

and psychotic episodes also lead to Schizophrenia…

>Do you find yourself unintentionally attracted/in love with borderlines?

No, my younger sister is borderline. Would not want to be in a relationship with someone like that.

I don't even want a relationship in the first place. I really don't see an upside to it other than benis in bagina. I just want to be alone, life is stressful enough as is with the people I do have in it.

I can't say I particularly like them, but for some reason most of the girls I have gotten along with were crazy one way or another.


Ofcourse, I never got all that closely involved with any of them because of my paranoia.

I do. I think it is because I know I can never have them, there's safety in that knowledge.

>>236
>Do you find yourself unintentionally attracted/in love with borderlines?
yes, sadly enough. pretty sure all of the girls I've been involved with were borderline cases.

Both of the girls I've ever felt like I could open up to admitted to being diagnosed with various cluster B disorders. I never stayed with them long enough to see the negative side of things.

I think I should quit while I'm ahead. The world is telling me I should be alone. Perhaps it is time to heed that warning.

>tfw live in a small town
>not sure if I do have spd
>looks at OP and thinks they're a fucking normal-fag

I'm not sure where to find anyone who'd accept me