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I hope this is a mistake. The differences between a plain schizoid personality and schizophrenia are rather extreme.
For example, schizoids are not in general undergoing psychosis, but those with schizophrenia struggle with psychosis constantly. (That is not to say schizophrenics are always having a psychotic episode, just that it is a frequent struggle, and it is also the case that some people with schizoid personality traits may occasionally experience instances of brief reactive psychosis when under extreme stress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brief_reactive_psychosis )
There are some similarities though. Schizoid personality disorder has negative symptoms similar to those of schizophrenia, such as anhedonia, blunted affect and low energy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anhedonia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blunted_affect
I find this distinction important to maintain in discussions as schizophrenia is essentially the basic version of plain old crazy that most people would think of when saying somebody is insane. Plain schizoid personality traits would suggest someone may have a preoccupation with fantasy, but that person would still be grounded in reality.
However, I won’t deny that the two conditions are related. There is some evidence to suggest that there is an increased prevalence of schizoid personality disorder in relatives of people with schizophrenia or schizotypal personality disorder. Schizoid personality disorder and schizotypal personality disorder may also be stepping stones for an individual that will eventually develop schizophrenia. The younger one is when getting a diagnosis of some condition on the schizotypy spectrum ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizotypy ) the more likely it will eventually develop into schizophrenia, but I have heard that it is extremely rare past age 30.
Those with schizophrenia can have schizoid traits, but it would be odd to also call schizophrenics schizoid – but sometimes technically correct – in general simply because of the great contrast in the conditions.
On a final note, other condtions on the schizotypy spectrum are fine for discussion and people with the other conditions on the spectrum are in general free to post, but the main topic of the board will always be regarding the schizoid personality.