Table of contents:
- What is schizotipal disorder?
- Causes of schizotipal disorders
- Symptoms of schizotypal personality disorder
- How can schizotipals be recognized?
- What is the difference between schizotipal and schizofernia?
- Treatment of schizotipal disorders
Living in a digital age that is increasingly sophisticated, ironically there are still many people who still believe in supernatural and mystical things. For example, going to the pesugihan place to get a lottery number or ask for offspring. But did you know that believing in mystical things, making it difficult to connect and interact with other people, can be a symptom of a mental disorder called schizotypal disorder? Why is that?
What is schizotipal disorder?
Personality determines how a person interacts with others, because personality determines how you see yourself and the environment around you.
Schizotypal disorder is a personality disorder that causes it to be difficult for a person to develop close relationships with other people because they feel very uncomfortable interacting with them. In addition, someone with this disorder has an abnormal way of thinking so that they have behavior that tends to be eccentric.
People who experience this disorder often have wrong thoughts as a result of their wrong understanding of everyday events, even though these events are normal for other people. They are very superstitious and have their own thoughts about something even though it is not normal or deviates from the social norms of the environment around them.
These "weird" thinking patterns often cause anxiety and depression for sufferers. As a result, the treatment only focuses on the symptoms of depression and anxiety disorders without overcoming the symptoms of personality disorders they are experiencing.
Causes of schizotipal disorders
Many things are thought to be the cause of schizotypal disorders. One theory states that the appearance of this disorder is the result of the interaction of hereditary, social, and psychological factors.
Schizotypal disorders may be inherited from traits, but social roles such as parenting and social association with childhood kidneys, temperament factors, and how they solve problems can also influence the development of personality disorders.
Symptoms of schizotypal personality disorder
In general, schizotypal personality disorder results in very minimal patterns of social and interpersonal abilities due to abnormal thinking patterns. This disorder is also accompanied by discomfort in interacting and not having the ability to have close relationships.
However, more specifically, the symptoms experienced by people with this disorder are more varied. This includes:
- Have a strong belief in magical, mystical, occult, occult things, even though they are against the norm
- Often illusions about supernatural experiences, or unusual events
- Having an unearthly idea
- Have a way of speaking and words that are not clear for others to understand
- Often shows unnatural emotions
- Feel very uncomfortable in social situations
- Feeling too paranoid about certain things
- Has an unusual or eccentric appearance
- Very few have close friends or confidants other than immediate family
- Experiencing social anxiety and feeling paranoid about interacting with someone even after you've known them for a long time.
How can schizotipals be recognized?
A person can only be declared schizotypal when he is an adult. The reason is, personality disorders can only form over a long time. Individuals at the age of children and adolescents experience changes and personality maturation continuously. Symptoms of schizotypal disorders can increase to adulthood and then decrease in late adulthood before entering the elderly or around 40-50 years.
A diagnosis made by a psychiatric professional may involve previous symptoms and behavior patterns in a person suspected of having a schizotypal personality disorder. Determination of the diagnosis in individuals before entering adulthood can be done when the symptoms of this disorder are present and persist for at least one year. In addition, early detection of this disorder is based on a family history of having schizophrenia.
What is the difference between schizotipal and schizofernia?
Schizotypal personality disorder is often mistaken for a serious mental disorder schizophrenia. Both can trigger symptoms of psychosis that make it difficult for a person to distinguish which is the real reality and which is only hallucination / imagination.
However, the frequency and intensity of hallucinogenic and delusional episodes in schizotypal personality disorder symptoms are generally less severe than in schizofernia. Generally, someone with schizotypal disorder is still more or less aware of the difference between reality and thinking, but people with schizophrenia will find it very difficult to overcome the delusional symptoms they experience. They generally cannot tell which realms are real and which are illusory.
Although the two are different, schizofernia treatment can have a positive effect on people with schizotypal disorders.
Treatment of schizotipal disorders
Appropriate treatment is needed for people with schizotypal personality disorder because if it is not treated there is a chance for a serious decline in social and occupational abilities. Comprehensive treatment such as psychiatric therapy and drug consumption are needed to form new patterns of thought and behavior and relieve symptoms of schizotypal disorders. However, it is likely that this will need to be done for a long time.
