Its Autism... Just admit it ... All your words, lead to Autism or brain damage.. whatever you want to call it. tell me I'm wrong. I dare you to tell me that. You talk about me with a smile. getting upset.
This could be what my father was suffering from. He raised me alone, had no friends, no social interactions apart from his job. The windows blinds in the house were always closed because "neighbors were watching". When I was 12 he started believing that neighbors were listening in on our conversations... he said the topic of those conversations were shown on TV a few days later. He was so convinced of this that he forced me to "test" his theories. Once we had a fake conversation about building a swimming pool in the garden. Days later, on the news, they showed a swimming pool. This was the ultimate proof for my dad. In the end, it made me so uncomfortable, that he stopped talking about it. Apart from that, he was a kind and loving dad. I've always considered his behavior a consequence of his rough childhood. In a way, I've always felt like he put me in a bubble so that I wouldn't suffer like he did. Some people with disorders are genuinely good people. They're just suffering a lot.
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Interesting. I can see the parallel to modern life. Google picks up on conversations and presents advertising. Historically people did have blinds down because they feared what the neighbors thought of them or during war times when appearing to be home wasn't good. People usually have good reasons to keep their blinds down.
How does Dr. Ramani hold this amount of knowledge in her head? Not only does she have a vast knowledge base of mental health information, but she is able to contextualize everything into real-life understanding. Incredible.
This is basically the dsm... many professors and clinicians can explain these and there are only a few personality disorders and that's what she knows most about. I love her videos, she's awesome, but sometimes she caricatures and stereotypes too much.
I knew someone in the 90s who was diagnosed STPD during the time I knew him. He had a lot of issues with inner anger. He used to say, with rising intensity, that he wished he could hook wires between his brain and other individual people so that they could feel and understand his pain. By the time he'd end he'd be in a passionate rage saying that they wouldn't last two minutes before dropping to their knees and begging for it to end. It was sad really. Met him at an anxiety group. And yes I felt very uncomfortable around him but never projected that. In his own odd way he was a kind person but extremely troubled
@@SleepyStardust3 Me too and I was born this way. I thought everybody hurt everywhere all the time. I already knew I heard, felt, saw,and even smelled things others couldn't but it was a surprise to find out that my pain is mine alone. Inside and out. I have no friends or family besides my 3 kids. No family because I was unwanted and orphaned, no friends because I have enough to deal with. I seem to scare people off. I'm the weird one who if I look into your eyes you think I see your soul. I avoid eye contact for that reason. I still however feel ALL of their energy. It's nice to see on here I'm not alone in this.
Schizotypals usually have a lot of other disorders with that one. BPD is often comorbid. strangely enough StPD actually exists because some doctors noticed that some people with BPD also showed symptoms that were more akin to schizophrenia than to normal BPD. There's actually some surprising relations between a lot of mood disorders and psychotic disorders as well as there milder "personality disorder" cousins. In the future there may be a new disorder born from them to differentiate between standard STPD and STPD with mood traits similar to how schizoaffective disorder is differentiated from Schizophrenia. It's definitely a possibility.
I absolutely relate to your acquaintance wanting to have someone jump into their scenario so they could relate to their pain! I tell my wife all the time I wish she could be in my shoes for just an hour to understand what I'm going through!
I am a victim of a narcissistic mother and a deeply isolated dysfunctional childhood. I can't help but feel some of these behaviors are due to my childhood trauma. I have a firm grasp on reality, science. I have 2 adult children whom I value above all else. But I'm scared, terrified of forming relationships. I'm guarded to the point of never having an adult friendship. So while this looks like disorder from the outside, it's a means of survival on the inside.
Interesting. I was thinking that this almost sounds like the after effects of prolonged narcissistic abuse where the trauma is profound and the abuse was societal... so not just within the family.
I feel the same. Exactly the same. My personality was formed as a trauma response to the same type of narc parent. I don't trust anyone. If you main care giver can screw you over, then anyone can. And they have, and they do. What a life eh.
I was diagnosed with STPD three years ago. I've been emotionally and physically abused all my life. I am twenty six years old and still struggling. Therapy and medications did not solve anything. I was put on fluoxetine, benztropine, and risperidone. The side effects were horrible; I almost died. I stopped taking them after a couple of months, but one of the side effects still remains. The doctors, nurses and social workers were condescending and smug. They couldn't understand how I felt and kept telling me to do things I couldn't do. They were just repeating what they learned in text books. I've learned more on the internet than I did from them. They wasted my time; I shouldn't have gone to them. But if I didn't, I would be long dead; but at least I would have peace. I want to see a video on selective mutism if you don't mind.
You might have autism. I'm autistic and had selective mutism as a child. A lot of autistic traits are shared by STPD, like lack of close relationships, social anxiety, oddness. Similar but not totally the same.
I agree about the doctors, they just regurgitate what they've been taught and don't listen to their patients and don't want to hear anything negative about their beloved drugs. Also they are absolutely clueless on how to help you when their drugs don't work.
I was diagnosed with STPD a couple weeks ago and I relate so much to what you said about the medication and the psychiatrists/therapists. I used fluoxetine too for 5 years, cause they wouldn’t let me stop. it was such a traumatic experience, but they didn’t believe me because usually the medication helps. it got me into multiple psychosis instead. you’re not alone❤️
A friend´s daughter was recently diagnosed with this and I remember her mentioning once that the only person she had in her life was her younger brother and no one else (much to the distraught of my friend, the mother). She also dresses inappropiately (not attention seeking or quirky, just... off), believes in the wildest conspiracy theories and has odd ways of thinking (like things that are every day occurences somehow have some secret meaning that don't connect in any way- the neighbor is wearing red so she can't eat cereal for breakfast today, things like that, where you just say what?). I'm watching videos on this disorder so I can learn more about it and be more supportive for my friend
Can we please open a discussion about this I believe I'm showing alot of the signs of this disorder but not to quite the extreme she is talking about in this video or that you mentioned I dress as many would describe it as wierd my clothes are always unmatching and just not what everyone wears , I get wierd suspicions to the point where I don't sleep and when I know there is nothing going on I am incredibly defensive ie. try to protect myself from harm both physical and mental/emotional, I constantly feel like somebody's going to break in to my home and that keeps me up, I get shakily anxious when talking to many people besides those very close however I do have a lovely girlfriend who understands what I'm going through and I have 3or 4 close friends which surprises me but I do generally feel like people are talking to about me and take the little things to heart and it's effecting my relationship I don't respond how I should emotionally I just shut down and everything stops at that moment I never had any friends till 13 and I met someone by chance that I already kind of knew I had a very very different childhood than every one i know, so it could be environmental but everything points to this I only know of this obscure disorder because I was researching some of the emotions I felt that I knew were not normal and reading about it is different than hearing someone describe it happening to somebody else and it sounds like how I would be and have been for most of my life the only reason I even can do anything is because of other people they made me who I am and I'm very thankful for that and that is kind of what makes me think I might not have spd or just a mild case but it's all there the odd behavior ,the weird clothes ,extreme social anxiety ,lack of friends ,suspicions that are unfounded and I don't know what to do I'm scared to speak to a therapist iv been to every therapist and didn't find the right one i guess , I'm almos not sure but I feel talking about it even with a total stranger might help me
@@jonahsymes4060 my friend take care; you’re going in the right direction. You’re trying to find Mental Health counselors and social workers, etc. to talk to. Are you in school? There may be a School Psychologist that you can talk to. Stay strong friend. You sound like you may be a young person. You’ve got a big long life to live then. Best wishes. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I hope in the year since you posted this that you've learned how to speak more respectfully about other people's experiences. If you want to be supportive, you don't need to learn more about the disorder. You just need to learn not to be a judgmental cnt.
I am diagnosed schizotypal and I have a family. I have children, a fiance and ONE friend lol. However, I've had to work very hard to have these things and really work on myself. Its really hard for me to connect with people but at least being able to connect with my little family has been a huge success. I still struggle with the disorder but I'm at least not alone.
I often feel my inner life does not resemble anyone else's. To me, so-called normal people are just unchallenged. Anyone of an intuitive, artistic bent will naturally see the world in a different way, talk, dress, joke, etc. How much of boredom with the real world is due to self-referential stuff, and how much is objective reality, ie, our lives can be pretty mundane and repetitive? The stress of making a living and surviving in a competitive, crude, and violent American culture is not to be underestimated.
I tend to think of STPD as being part of a spectrum analogous to the autism spectrum. Instead, the schizotypy spectrum. I don't think it really has much to do with personality, but more to do with the way the mind forms conceptual structures.
@@hypercortical7772 That's a good point. Doubt it is much "personality". Most autistic people also have trouble with sensory integration, sensory overstimulation. It makes sense to be less "social" when social situations are some of the most stimulating situations possible.
I have STPD but I have had moments of almost completely losing touch with reality. I can eventually navigate out of it but rarely without help. & my paranoia is almost always directed towards myself. This often puts me situations where I’m being abused because I am so certain that I’m just being paranoid towards that person I’m incredibly close to my dad, but I’ve never been close to anyone else. Also what she said about it being rare for us to marry or have children makes me sad. I already knew this fact, but I’ve always wanted to be a wife & mother. I know there’s hope, but I’ve often questioned if I can manage it
Remember she said that people with STPD don't marry/have kids because of their beliefs or reluctancy she doesn't prohibit anyone from marrying. People with STPD don't wanna marry but you do! See the clear difference.
there is a famous youtuber that have STPD + Bipolar (" living well with schizophrenia") and she got married with a very loving supporting and good looking partner , they made a kid together. if you want to , if its your desire is to marry...you can do it too. Sure its harder to connect when you have certain problems but..... these mental ilness are just "umbrella"...EVENTUALLY EVERY MIND IS UNIQUE WITH ITS OWN PARTICULAR UNIQUE BALANCE (even the so called "neurotipical and healthy" minds) and not everybody has the same symptoms or all the symptoms and/or at the same level....myself I have a weird case ....I dont fall in STPD at 100% ....maybe at 75% for certain symptoms, and 10% for another symptom. ...the more I study my case the less I know. its weird. Me too I have A STRONG DESIRE FOR ROMANTIC CONNECTION .....but its difficult to find a strong intelligent suitable partner ...its all very complicated when you are NEURODIVERGENT and/or have a personality disorder. but you can FIND LOVE AT ANY AGE so....DONT GIVE UP HOPE ! ;)
@@holembac The problem with STPD isn’t that people just don’t want to get close to people, they’re afraid of getting close to people. This isn’t everyone of course, but it is a very common symptom I know that a diagnosis doesn’t define my life, but I struggle a lot with avoidance. But recently I did get a girlfriend, so that’s nice
@@chiaravischi thank you. You’re very sweet. I did recently get a girlfriend. My main concern was that I have StPD & AvPD so my avoidant personality disorder fed my social problems & paranoia tremendously. & it’s been really horrible for me, even though I’ve only focused on trying to make friends
This is a hard diagnosis because I know people with every single one of these tributes and they actually present extremely advanced psychical vision that is completely substantial and consistent with our perceived reality and are self supporting and self sufficient. And I know people who present this and are on the diagnostic scale for cluster A.
I have been diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder. Dr Ramani mentioned its extremely rare for us to be married and become a parent... well i was married and i have 2 kids so i guess its not too rare, but i admit it was very hard and i prefer being on my own..
well, I think you kinda proved why it's rare lol, my guess is most schizotypals just choose not to/don't necessarily dream of marrying and/or having children (me included, if I count by just fitting basically all the symptoms) and then when things go wrong, which it often may due to misunderstanding of everyone involved, it's not like they're fond enough of marriage that they're going to try hard to stay married, they're just gonna be like "eh, not for me anyways, I'm done" and divorce. Not to mention I bet very little people can handle a heart like of a schizotypal for long (their loss) complete guesswork though
Seems to me the resultant behavior of someone with c-ptsd living in a toxic environment where they are being triggered or manipulated and gaslighted to the point they can only depend on themselves for support.
I think there is a thin line between the two...STPD and CPTSD are inextricable almost the same conditions if toxic family environment and abuse and trauma had been the start of your life. My Case. Mostly because .....STPD is genetical so its passed from parent to child ....a person that has it has a parent that has it....last generation had not the means to know or cure themselves.when i didnt know I had it ...I blamed others and was more "nasty" to others (its part of the disease if you don't know you have it).
A psychic on the autism spectrum could be mistaken for someone with Schizotypal PD, too. This can be one of the trickiest conditions to diagnose, IMO, because so much of it is culturally bound and can also be confused with other conditions and combinations of different conditions.
It's also a bit fucked up how not being a scientific materialist thinker is considered a symptom of a disorder by some psychiatrists. It's important to always look out for other symptoms.
@@joytoyoume7136 I agree. My point isn't that someone on the spectrum can't hold down a job, etc. My point was that based on Dr. Ramani's definition, a person on the spectrum who is also psychic could qualify for this diagnosis, which would be a huge error!
@@rosebutchI am a medium and I have two kids on the spectrum which surprised me because I was just like them as a kid. To me they were normal. To society not so much. I have no friends or family besides my kids. I think that what I've learned today about myself only puts a scientific medical diagnosis "fancy doctor words" to being me.😊
This is part of my diagnosis so I had to check this out. I'm relieved that only one or two of these traits may apply to me. I can see why this is part of my diagnosis. Fortunately I know my perceptions are only that and I'm probably the only one thinking that way. I think I can rule this out. I am major depressive, I don't think I'm bipolar because I feel the same level of crappy all the time. I'm trying to prepare for making possible future therapy meaningful and these explanatory videos help a lot, in fact they've helped me way more than someone sitting there saying nothing and judging me wrongly. I need correct information and homework to do, thank you!
my mom has every symptom of STPD except for social anxiety, so videos like this have been incredibly eye opening. on the point that "people with STPD will rarely be married or be parents" obviously my mom is a parent, but neither of her children speak to her anymore, and she divorced my dad when I was 10. she has hardly ever had friends, and the few friends she did have came and went fairly quickly. she even asked me once, when I asked to stop hearing about her work drama, "well who am I going to talk about this stuff with?". she didn't have anyone to talk to besides me. it was a regular thing for me to hear about how someone she worked with was "jealous" of her and was trying to sabotage her, which was confusing and disorienting for me as a kid. she had a hard time staying in the same workplace for long since she was regularly having interpersonal issues with coworkers. she also is a huge believer in anything involving magical thinking-she calls herself a witch, believes she has clairvoyance and a spirit guide, always keeps an altar, she spent tons of time reading about/talking about divination, numerology, psychic mediums, and even tried to get me and my brother to believe we had magical abilities. some of these things might make sense if she came from a culture with certain spiritual traditions, but she is a white woman from texas. she also believed that when the pandemic started that it was actually caused by 5G so I didn't need to wear a mask, and at one point believed (maybe she still does idk) that aliens built the pyramids. she also has always had a strange way of speaking that caused me a lot of embarrassment and frustration since she seemed not to be able to read social cues that I thought were obvious- she would be loud and use lots of varied tones or laugh very suddenly in an almost jarring way, and would bring up topics that didn't quite relate and spend lots of time talking about herself to the point of steamrolling the other person. like I said, the only trait she didn't show was social anxiety--I once frustratedly asked her, "do you not have shame?" and she responded "no!". it's great to finally get clarity on all these aspects of my mom that confused and distressed me as a kid, I feel like I can make sense of them and put them in perspective, and it's cathartic to see others in the comments with somewhat similar experiences. hopefully I'll eventually have someone in real life I can talk ab this stuff with lol, sorry for the long comment
Your mom/childhood sounds very similar to mine, although my mother chose Christianity to cling onto. I remember as young as 5 or 6, I knew she was different from other people. Even as a child, I would preface any introduction or interaction with a warning of her odd personality & lack of social cues. I still do it to this day.
@@yo_victoria It makes sense that you would do that, I definitely know how that feels. I appreciate you sharing, it’s good to hear other peoples stories and not feel isolated in my experience 💜
Oh well! There's alway much more we're yet to have abilities to explore I won't hold enough guts to label your mother's ideologies ODD but if her friends coming and going was consistent then yes I might question why. Anyways that's my opinion.
Uhm white people can be witches and psychic, our White race was originally pagan in ancient times. All of us! and we engaged in magickal workings/ rituals etc all the time. Also out of Norse Paganism came the Völva viking/ Norse witches that would use seidr Magick and were prophetesses , these unwed women would travel through towns meeting with the lady and Lords of the house to visit , heyde give up their seats to the Völva, they were revered. they'd go into trance and tell them the story of creation all the way to the end of the world and much more. This is ancient white culture, get to know who you are. Most psychics I know are white including myself. I can even go into trance and see my friends across the globe, see what they're wearing, talking about, doing, thinking etc.... how do u explain that? It's called being psychic. I can also travel out of body to their location to see them. Everyone on my fb friends lists know too. I channel/ travel to them.
00:00 Intro 00:26 1. Ideas of reference (not delusions) Here, it seems, anyone who believes in G-d can be tagged with this one. 01:25 2. Odd beliefs or magical thinking Though it may seem odd to others that I believe in G-d, I'm not going to stop doing that. I do not have any superstitions and I do not have any sensitivities to energies or powers or good and bad luck. One thing I have said, about myself, is that I have no luck, acknowledging that others do, or may, and they are allowed to, feel, or have powers, but I don't feel, have, or otherwise wish I had energy or powers or luck. 02:57 3. Unusual perceptual experiences (not hallucinations) Though I do have unusual perceptual experiences, nothing like what is described in this video, and, I do have a great amount of difficulty getting to the point, in writing and in speech, it's because I see more (perceptual experience) and I have a somewhat larger vocabulary, and I always feel like more can be said about a thing, but I often say something inappropriate, or insensitive, and I lose people on the way, and I recognize that. I wrote a thing once, and I realized I better not share two paragraphs from it, so I cut them out and sent it off to someone to get their opinion. Wouldn't ya know it, there were two other paragraphs that were left in that might have prohibited a bunch of people from ever appreciating the point of the thing I wrote! 04:37 4. Odd thinking and/or speech Conspiracy theories. Yeah, I don't believe in conspiracy theories, but I can see that they can be very entertaining for a lot of people because a lot of people engage. The cool thing is, they are easy to talk to because they usually just go on and on and they get to talk about the things that matter most to them, themselves and what they think. Like this lady who seems to love talking about street urchins. 05:54 5. Suspiciousness or paranoid ideation Many years ago, I realized that I treat the people I care about the most much differently than I would the clerk behind the counter at the gas station. I realized that when the people I care about the most would share their ideas, dreams, hopes with me, I would become very concerned, because I love them, but, the way that came out was too often critical and unkind. I realized this and stopped. I did not want to treat people I care about worse than people selling me cigarettes. With that, suspiciousness of paranoid anything at all, went out the window and I never had a suspicious or paranoid thought since. What are you looking at? Nobody is looking at me. That would just be weird 07:12 6. Inappropriate or constricted affect I had tubes put in my ears when I was a kid. I also had my face stomped on by a bully when I was a kid. I often speak too loudly, but its not mental. I often speak inappropriately, but that is because I have a problem reading a room. 08:48 7. Odd/eccentric behavior or appearance I do walk funny. That's a fact. I think it's because one leg bone is longer, by a half an inch, than the other and the other leg bone is one half inch short than the other, so my legs are the same length but the one is and the other is. So, I walk funny. I think some people notice, but what the heck can I do about it? 10:09 8. Lack of close friends or confidants I currently have no close friends or relationships, save my cousin Tristan. I lost them all by being insensitive to their emotional state of mind at certain times in my interactions with them. I used to have a bunch of acquaintances and friends, but I could not keep up with them. They were doing cool and exciting things and I simply could not afford the time or the money to keep playing with them. That lowered the pool of friends, and the rest went away because I treated them like I would treat myself. I loved them, but they couldn't know that because I treated them the way I treat myself. I talked to them the way that I would talk to myself. 11:09 9. Social anxiety stemming from paranoia I do engage with other people. I do interact with other people. I have no social anxiety at all. What happens, though, is I will often say things that are inappropriate and the interaction goes south. What can I do to stop hurting people's feelings?
Something that helps me is what my granny would say "just because it popped into your head does not mean it should pop out of your mouth" Is what you're saying relevant? Does it absolutely need to be said? Then scan the room, check your audience for the delivery that is most effective. Sometimes that means keeping it to yourself. Much love to you as you figure yourself out the same as me.❤️
Thanks, Joe. Just this weekend, I made a breakthrough. I was finally able to associate a strange feeling I have had in recent years with loving kindness and friendship. The feeling was a kind of frustration I would sometimes have with my cousin, because I didn't know how to "correct" him. As I "studied" the way my brother in-law was treating me over the course of the last several months, I came to realize that he was loving me, like a friend would do. This came to remind me of how my mother loved me when I was a kid and while I was supposed to learn something about how to treat people the way you want to be treated, I became stingy with my "friendship", severe in my judgments, and long winded in my arguments. I feel like I am at the starting line, but now I know how it's supposed to feel when I am being a friend. Heart. I don't know how to make an emoji...@@joedirt3970
@@todddavis9412 I have been told recently that I am mean to myself. I have also noticed recently that I let my frustrations about things or people out on the ones who are not frustrating me. I want to thank you for opening up because it's not easy. We are the type who can count on one hand the people we love and care about. Sadly as we get older less fingers are displayed because our loved ones cross over. The love and what they taught us through that love lives on. I know I push potential friends away without trying. I blab on and on and am trying to learn to listen just listen. Without going into my life experience on the subject I've learned a simple "I totally understand" works much better. If I'm asked I'll go deeper but understanding the importance of everyone's need to just be heard is a lesson I'm working on. I have had trouble interrupting and talking over people thinking what I have to say has to be heard. Whether what I'm saying is actually helpful or not gets lost by my inconsideration. People who truly love you and care about you will call you out on things like this. It's important even when it stings to say thank you, I'm sorry, and I'm working on it. My granny would tell me as I would go off on tangents about all the bad/sad things going on that I would get no sympathy from her. "You want to know where to find sympathy?" She would say "It's in the dictionary somewhere between shit and syphilis!" When she called me it wasn't to hear the bad or the good. It was to hear my voice and to tell me to take pictures and make memories and "give the babies a kiss on the butt for me" and that she loved me. The one I live by everyday is that I was hired out to be tough. She was a Marine and Texas Ranger so if she thought I was tough I can handle anything. Even if you're not one to say it show or tell the lucky few in your life how much you appreciate and love them. A smile or hug can save a life sometimes.
My mom was diagnosed with this personality disorder. I recognize some of these personality traits in her but I truly believe she was diagnosed incorrectly or not to the full extent.
Dr Ramani is a woman of pure light and goodness. She can explain any illness in terms that everyone can understand yet without ever dehumanising them vilifying them. She is outstanding in her field of work and her passion shines through. She makes me feel human ❤
Thanks Dr Ramani, you’re so knowledgeable in your field it’s a joy to watch you explain the margins of different mental afflictions and so sad when you teach us the quite devastating ramifications of even lesser psychiatric illness
I discovered that I am in this schizotypical personality aspect... I managed to meet my partner at 30 years old. He is autistic, the meeting was perfect, we have been married for 20 years.
I'm 43 and have been in therapy for years and was diagnosed with bipolar one with psychotic tendencies. I heard schizotypal for the first time today on some true crime thing I was watching and it stopped me in my tracks. I'm only three traits in and had to pause to say one thing. Magical thinking is something I have dealt with my entire life. There were many before this but this one sticks out. When I was eleven I heard a voice that kept saying "Jamie and Janie come home" I was staying at a friend's house that night and told his mom what I kept hearing. She patted me on my little head and sent me back to play. 15 min later the phone rang and it was someone telling her that her oldest child's friend Jamie had been killed in a motorcycle accident. All night as I laid on the couch I could hear them talking about how I could have known that. I was worried about something else. My mom's name was Janie and she died two days later. 😢 As an adult I had the most vivid daydream at work about a disturbing serious life-changing conversation. I even said out loud "WTF was that" about a week later that exact person in the exact room I had seen said the exact words and it wasn't something typical or anything I would have ever thought this person would or could do in a million years. As horrific as the words I heard were I was in shock that I had already seen this happen in vivid detail down to the clothes they were wearing while I was fully awake! I do believe this is my true diagnosis and it answers many questions. Don't discount everything as magical some is premonition but either way it's not easy being this way.
There are things one just can’t talk about with other people. There are some in your life that will understand your gift (curse?) but you just have to use caution. Otherwise you get diagnosed with something you don’t have. You’re never going to change the future that you see. It’s a burden.
I have actually been diagnosed with this personality disorder, I don't have close relationships outside of family but I am a mother. I didn't present with all of these symptoms but I did present with enough of them to be diagnosed with it. Something she didn't mention though is that a person is more likely to have this if a family member has been diagnosed as schizophrenic. My grandmother is.
I think I'm Schizotypal and my dad is Schizophrenic but I think the disorder shouldn't be classified as one. It sounds like they are trying to limit intuitive people who can tell what's going on behind the scenes.
@@salemslostchild based. that's what I think too. I can literally see God, it's like reality is 2D like wallpaper that I could metaphysically reach out and tear to see God working the machinery of reality behind the scenes. I think many people with schizotyal PD have this experience. Maybe not exactly the same, but at least the experience of almost perceiving another dimension, even if we're not quite able to properly understand it or even describe it because it's beyond physical comprehension. my mind can kind of understand it but my mouth can't describe it. reality looks almost like it has a tilt-shift lens on it for me. That lens allows me to see God. I call it 'hyper-reality'. Do you have something similar? if so, have you managed to glean any revelations from it? I think there are secrets and answers to be uncovered. Thousands of years ago, so-called "schizotypals" and "schizophrenics" would be called Shamans. Shamans used to be highly valued people in tribal societies for their ability to see beyond the veil.
@@salemslostchild interesting Point. every "personality disorder" is simply a definitive deviation from the majority of neurotipical "standard" brains that only seems "ALL RIGHT" AS THEY LIVE IN A WORLD BUILT FOR THEM, as they are in majority and find an OBVIOUS easy connection between them and adapt well in this SUPER SICK SOCIETY as this society is built by "neurotipicals for neurotipicals " .what they call "a personality mental disorder" as STPD (as long as is not too extreme,they become extreme also because of the ENVIRONMENT , I have it now and seems more evident as I live in a 99% neurotipical "middle class" enviroment but in the artistic world I was considered more than okey and functioning and still I am considered okey and more understood between artists and hyper creative slightly atipical open-minded people or HIGH IQ people ) makes you SIMPLY unadaptable and makes you distance yourself from this sick contemporary society .... STONE AGE IS OVER BUT JUST CONSIDER that people considered "MENTALLY STABLE" AND HIGLY FUNCTIONING HEALTHY NEUROTYPICALS (as prime ministers of our western countries) FIND WARS A GOOD SOLUTION AND KILLING THOUSANDS OF THOUSANDS OF KIDS AND INNOCENT LIVES EVERY YEAR TO GAIN MORE POWER IN TH INTERNATIONAL GLOBAL SCHEME ..... and the majority of neurotipical people believe is Okey too.......LIKE....... WTF .......THEN THEY GIVE EACH OTHER "FREEDOM&PEACE " AWARD MEDALS....LIKE........... .......TO ME THIS IS MADNESS.I dont know about you .ITS THE NEUROTIPICAL MENTALITY THA IS SICK. BUT THEY ARE THE MAJORITY SO .... :(.....
I was diagnosed with this at 16 years old and im happy to have been able to use the diagnostic criteria for being able to see when i was acting "inappropriately" because ut has helped alot i still struggle but am able to hold down jobs and a relationship .. i may not have many friends because they dont understand the fear i have of telling them i think theyre mad at me because it makes me seem self centered but i have my partner who is amazing with dealing with it and calls me out for being ridiculous and also saying what parts of my arguments make sense but shows they dont add up in the long run
keeping friends is just such a struggle though, how can people even deal with keeping more than 1 or 2 relationships, I've always struggled. Also sometimes you really just need someone to explain to you where you're being nonsensical in a way that makes sense to you, but oftentimes it's just "you're making no sense" or "that's not true" with no further elaboration even when you ask for it
I think this is me and I'm now insane. Lol. I'm definitely eccentric and talk to myself. Laugh at inappropriate times. I have a very interesting dialogue in my head. I don't need company because I'm quite satisfied with what's going on in my head. I am isolated with no family contact. They don't understand me. But I am kind and loving. I'd help anyone.
@@stormyweather9038 I have felt repulsed by touch many times in the past. But lately I yearn for it, I'm so lonely. I pretend that Jesus is holding me so I can sleep at night as I'm so lonely. I fantasise about being cuddled.
@@vanessas2363 just envision Jesus and the way will become clear. Believe He is your Lord and Savior and then try to align with his teachings and you are on the right path. And use positive self talk.
I relate to your comment Prussian. However I believe it is bog standard normal to pick up on energy around us and am surprised that, unless I’m mistaken, my beloved Dr Ramani seemed to imply being aware of energy is pretentious or ‘off’. For 9 years I worked in a very quiet open office of 60 people. My desk was at the far corner of the room with my back to the room. Each day I would notice my body relax and a calm descend, my focus cleared, energy boosted and when I turned to check the difference most folk had already shut down their computers and left for the day. Since lockdown changes there are very few in the same office and it is noticeable that this dramatic daily effect has gone. Previously there was a bullying manager in the office, it was notable that when she entered the space the energy in the room changed. The discomfort was tangible without having seen or looking for the cause. I also noticed signals like heels stabbing into the floor, speed of walking, had an effect like a wave going around the room. The changes in atmosphere in the room affected my body first, then my mind caught up by asking the question …. What’s changed? Once my team started to discuss this openly and more folk became conscious it became clear it was an experience common to us all, of which people had not previously been fully conscious. I believe the awareness comes from a sensitivity to vibration, sensory processing of hearing. EG An intermittent vibration in the office was triggering my body to react with anxiety but no one else could hear/feel it and they were laughing at me. I pointed out to them every time it started and stopped. They then became aware of the ‘something’ and between us we finally worked out it was from the hand drier in the loos far along the corridor.. my mind was calmed by reason although my body still reacted for a while. Another example was when I realised my screen interacted with my landline phone creating a loud buzz if I happened to touch the screen whilst I was on the phone. The buzz stopped if I removed my finger from the screen. Again they laughed til I made them try it and they ALL verified the same unexpected phenomena. Throughout all of these (and more) I wasn’t consciously being hyper vigilant but seriously focussed on work requiring intense quiet concentration; still those atmospheres or phenomena broke through to my body consciousness first, which in turn broke into my mental awareness and caused me to check. Surely this sensing of energy is a normal capacity and not mental illness or ‘special’ in any way, especially as when it’s brought to awareness everyone can sense it, we just tune it out as irrelevant? I don’t believe we are all equally aware because some folk prefer lots of stimulation and others find that to be totally overwhelming. Also I dance and the instructors teach that it’s important to stay relaxed as stress vibes spread around a dance floor like a virus making the difference between a great social event and an uncomfortable one. I recently watched a TED talk on auditory processing in which the speaker demonstrated the effects of background noise on the accuracy of hearing in some subjects. During the demo my body reacted viscerally with anxiety caused by my inability to discern sounds, reproducing exactly the same effect as did the large office. My hearing tests as acute although I struggle to discern group conversation say in restaurants, crowds, swimming pools. These body responses dramatically increased 18years ago following taking a single tablet of an antibiotic to which I had an immediate visceral reaction. I sometimes wonder if this is somewhat akin to what autistic children experience but they do not have the benefit of maturity and experience to help them manage it?
it is not called " sense energy" but an ability to read body language, you have got to talk in scientific words to be taken seriously by doctors, that is why well educated people get fewer psychiatric diagnoses than lower class folk : prejudice
@@BaiMengLing My father born in 1928 with 3 university degrees. Including an engineering degree. He was given a diagnosis of schizophrenia, and manic depression.
My ex was exactly like that, plus he was very much into the narcissistic and borderline spectrum. A deadly combination I would say from my experience. We stayed together for 2.5 years, in the beginning he would talk and talk about stuff that didn’t make sense, but I thought it was because he was smoking too much weed and he was “spiritual”.Then he started showing delusional thoughts about other people, about me, and it got to a point where he completely transformed into a paranoid manipulative and cold person. No glimpse of logic would apply to a conversation with him, as he thought that I was the one manipulating him. Very strange experience, wouldn’t wish it to anybody. It left me with CPTSD, trust issues and depression. Now I understand that he was just sick, but I will never forgive him for the damage he did to me, mostly because of his narcissism and manipulations he did to me that destroyed my mental health. Stay safe & informed Peace !
This is very interesting, but at the same time, after watching several videos, I am beginning to think everyone has some kind of personality disorder. Is it even possible to not have one in this day and age? (I promise I am not saying that arrogantly, just really wondering.) Could all these names sometimes just be describing what makes individuals unique, or is it just when one is taken to an extreme. Also, A question, when they "feel the presence" or whatever, and they are not hallucinating, are you mean they truly believe this or a part of them is making this up to make sense of weird feelings that really don't make sense? I just want to understand. I totally apologize if I sound like a jerk, I am just fascinated with the mind. Many blessings
Perhaps if everything is a spectrum we are all on it and therefore can espress multiple traits, historically this personality she describes is the essence of the Shaman and healers,
Yes, there are very mentally healthy people out there. You can be sad, angry, loving, sensitive and healthy as can be. When you are in the presence of a mentally healthy person you want to remain there, because they don't dump anything on you, they support you, and they make you feel like a million bucks without demanding you do anything outrageous for them. Seeing an entire healthy family will make you want to cry because it is soooo beautiful.
I get what she saying but if you have never experience people she's describing, you may think someone who mentions they are a sensitive and can truly feel things, are actually schizotypal
Personality disorders are part of three clusters. These three clusters represent certain type of personalities people tend to fall into, and when they end up becoming a struggle for the person to adapt to society is when they are called personality disorder. So yep, it's like a spectrum of traits that can just described behaviors or disorders depending on the severity
All of my friends (some of them are pretty normal and functioning) who've been to a psychiatrist have gotten a diagnosis of some sort of a personality disorder. Everyone else I know that haven't visited a psychiatrist don't have a personality disorder diagnosis. It's just a matter of seeing a psychiatrist or not seeing one.
I worked with a dude who would literally spaz out and even threat people with a hammer ext.. because they were standing around talking and he was so convinced that they were talking about him. He even claimed at one point that someone poisoned his coffee! He accused me once for talking about him, which I was absolutely not! 🤨😳
I've never known very much about this disorder. Interesting symptoms..I have a few of them, but they don't have anything to do with social anxiety. I'd be curious to know Dr. Ramani's thoughts on paranormal issues and whether she has ever experienced them. It's kinda like seeing aliens, you don't believe until you see one. I've had a few encounters. Currently, we have a haunted bakery here in out little town. Before the bakery took over the house it was an art gallery and before that back in the 20's it was a home for a few elderly people and their nurse. It is a simple turn of the century shotgun home with a wrap around porch. Very charming, but everyone who has rented it has had encounters, usually auditory. The police have stopped a few times to check out things moving on the porch when no was there. The bakery owner let me listen to a man laughing that showed up on her phone. I think everyone can feel energy to some extent, even if it is just the feeling someone is standing too close behind you at the supermarket. I was in the bakery a few weeks ago looking at the pastries in the case and was so sure someone was standing behind me wanting to look, that I unconsciously moved to the side....when I turned around, no one was there...at least no one I could see. I'm curious if these need to be lifelong traits and how many have to be present. I am a writer and I would bet writers laugh to themselves all the time. When I'm working on a story I literally carry the characters around with me and watch them in my head to see what they are going to do next. Since I've retired, they can take up hours of my time, and are generally much more interesting than the local gossip. I used to spend a lot of time around people out of necessity, I can go days without seeing anyone now, but it is not because of social anxiety, its mostly boredom and not having much in common with a great many people. I think people who have a lot of solitary habits and hobbies can get a bad rap from psychology at times.
This Schizotypal traits are happens a lot in asia ahahaha. Im from s.e.a, and ghost stories are our daily life. Me and my bestfriend can sense tv's electromagnetic waves. Haunted place? I can sense it. My colleagues can sense people, like gut feeling. Does that makes me and my friends are Schizotypal?
@@nonienandya6585 My Amer-asian niece could see ghosts as a child and was visited by the departing spirit of a nun who helped her father immigrate from Vietnam..She saw her on the day she died and before anyone in the house knew she was dead. I am most familiar with the ghost stories from Japan and Thailand. The Yokai have made their way into American video and adventure games, but not in a way that imparts understanding of their part in the cultural fabric of Asia. I am a very big fan of film maker Hayao Miyazaki and the playful spirits in his films that actually retain their societal role. Does culture turn toxic when it loses the beauty inherent in its mythology and turns toward only what one can get away with under the banner of biological materialism? Interesting question. A friend who does woodworking builds birdhouses. He was mystified because one of the more elaborate ones never got any birds. I told him he'd probably kept demons away from the house by building them their own beautiful place to live (Thai Spirit house). I hope he doesn't see this video. He'll blame that and our political differences on insanity. I'll never live it down!!
What I gather from the symptoms of this disorder is. An individual who is able to think beyond what we are taught to believe is an odd eccentric chap with no socia life. I get the band social life part but do I get anything about paranoia part? It's STPD when paranoia isn't at extreme but do we all not have it? About magical thinking? It's highly intuitive things vary from culture to culture and bear with me please when I say most of these beliefs do come true in most forms in most cultures I give u an example, when it's full moon day, our Energies fluctuate because about 70% of our body is made up of water. It goes the same ways with the tides in ocean on the full moon day. And it's the belief most cultures have been holding primordially, if someone had come up to any westerner in 80s or way earlier about this they would be thinking of him/her to be BIZARRE. Anyways despite everything I am very new to this field and all ears to experienced and more learned people who can enlighten me more about this subject. Happy days🌟
8 out of 9 is pretty bad I guess. Point 6 is what I hate the most, because it's inappropriate but to me it feels like it is appropriate though I know it's not. I like the constricted days a lot more, I feel like a robot on those days and my head is just empty. There where usually is chaoes there is nothing, you could tell me anything and there wouldn't be any emotional response. Point 9 I could never be the husband or the father that I would like to be and so I stay alone, because no one deserves to have to put up with that, especially not the one I'm in love with. I'd rather die due to a broken heart than putting her through that. Odd speaking and behaviour is so tiring when I have to suppress it, that's why I like working with animals because they don't care whether I am talking in different accents or gibberish or gibberish in different accents. If there was a camera following me the whole day, you could easily cut a 1 hour try not to laugh challenge from what I do and say.
U probably won't want to but can I talk to you about this I'm going through a lot and Im almost positive I have stpd and it's making everything in my life difficult and I just need someone to talk to I don't want to go to a psychiatrist cus of the medication they're inevitably going to prescribe and I just need someone who can relate to me please
My teen daughter many times will say: "What? Why are you looking me? Stop staring at me!" and I'm only looking at her because I'm talking to her and sometimes because she just walked into the room and I noticed she came in. It's like I'm supposed to purposely look away so she won't think I'm staring. I hope this isn't schizotypal. It's just that I haven't heard from another parent that their teen is the same way.
That is extremely normal teenage behavior. That’s why personality disorders shouldn’t be diagnosed in teens. It’s normal for them to be a little crazy. All these new hormones and chemicals are coursing through their brains.
Why does psychology incorporate beliefs into a diagnosis? How many cultural practices are rooted in "magical" thinking, and who can decide what falls outside a culture's norm, mainly if they are not part of that culture?
I was uninhibited and truly felt better about myself before seeking treatment from the mental health system. I turned to them because i literally had nobody else. Ive had or had been suspected of having almost all of the abnormal psych labels there are. Never actually received any relief from the anxiety, triggers, poverty, or isolation though. In all the many many many years of treatment. Ive only come to know that "something is wrong with me" by the same professionals that contradict that statement. And funny enough, theres some people on here who mention being in their head alot who are also a meyers briggs personality type infp. Well, im infp 4w5. And you know? How could a terrible system destroy a personality type that only wanted ideals, beauty, harmony, real connection that entails deep aknowledgement and authenticity, and for the protection of all without a voice? Not only that, but the real world is very harsh. And its true how friggin mundane it is. So of course an intuitive mind is going to want to escape inwards.
The tone of this video is off. She sounds condemning or mocking them. I think her education is so important to people and it’s helped so many understand themselves and others. That said; this particular video came off egotistical herself. It was giggling and the “and I would say to my dinner partner..” She openly admits she would judge, and then gossip about someone after they made one statement. 🤨
Do people with "HSP" highly sensitive people have this? Sometimes it is possible to pick up the vibes in a room or pick up on other people's moods. Carl Jung called this extroverted intuition but I have no idea as not a psychologist.
think that's why one of the most important things to consider before diagnosing a disorder is that it doesn't fit with their cultural norms. they did state in the video that the symptoms has to be drastically different/not a result of the cultural environment the person grew up in. also they won't diagnose a disorder if it doesn't impair the person's life or functioning in any way. then it's not a disorder.
Sorry if this is "too long to read", but I can't find a way to tell it shorter: I had some experiences that would be classified as psychic, but I think of, and experienced, as demonic. Hey, my religious faith calls them demonic, and I certainly agree, so if my faith is termed my culture, then believing that should not be called insane, should it? Well, you know how the world is about these things. I had a breakdown under the extreme stress of a terror campaign (some people don't agree with _repentance_ from "psychic" things), but I was diagnosed as if the stress was all in my mind. I underwent several more hospitalizations, but I was improving in my ability to live with these realities. When I was finally taken off major tranquilizers, my improvement soared! I think that's probably pretty common. My psychologist had been a teacher of physiological psychology at a local teachers' college. When they merged with the university across the street, she was working on tenure, but soon determined that they didn't want her. They had a school of medicine, after all, to employ in teaching that subject. We discussed the problem of having real experiences that the scientific establishment refuses to acknowledge. She said "the people on my side of the street tend to be the kind who believe that *'there is more in heaven and earth than is dreamt of in your philosophy' ,"* but the ones across the street, including the school of medicine, no. Everything with them is all materialism, all the time. "If it cannot be seen with the eyes, or measured in some way, it isn't real." Atheist: sane. Believer in God: insane. Insanity: doing what does not please Stalin. Years later, I was being maintained on Paxil (imagine how much better I felt when I finally got off that!), but did not have any regular psych therapy, other than to have the drugs prescribed and managed. My physical doctors, residents at the University clinic, were not the best I'd had, and some of them were mean, rude, insulting jerks. One told me off, citing the authority of her father, a psychiatrist, for _feeling my emotions too much in my body,_ which was unforgivably neurotic! (My cousin: "what is she: 12 years old?") Finally one gave me an ultimatum, that I had to engage with adult psychiatry, or else, so I made an appointment to find a therapist. I was called for intake on a Saturday, when no one else was in the office, but the intake person and myself. She was a nice, young woman, a grad student, and she made herself pretty easy to talk to. I explained, the best I could, what my life was like, and what I thought I needed. I told her that I didn't mind talk therapy, but I had had experiences that were supernatural, and was concerned that I might end up with someone who had this materialist bias, who would "grade" me harshly for simply telling my life as it is. I told her what my psychologist who'd taught in the university had said. Her reaction: She said that she thought there was a lot to consider in that, and that my psychologist's report was mostly true. She was Brazilian, and had grown up in Brazil, and that *nobody* in Brazil--not any psychiatrists, or any kind of scientists, or anyone with a responsible job of any kind--no one--doubted the existence of spirits, because literally everyone had experiences of the reality of spirits in Brazil, whether they are favorable to them, or against them. So her recommendation was that I not seek therapy in the clinic, because everyone I was likely to encounter would have this materialist, atheist, positivist bias, and I was likely to not be treated well because of it. Yay! I was so grateful. And I thank God for providentially giving me that young woman as my intake, and also for the sweet psychologist I had seen a few years past my breakdown. So yeah, all this buildup, just to share what she said, but it is very true. Most of these "Yankee materialists", if they were visiting a place like Brazil, would be bowing and scraping to prove how _valid_ they believed the indigenous population's experience was. "We have much to learn from you!", they would ooze. But returning to the US, they would crush you for believing the same things are real. They would hardly grant that they were "valid". But when Freud was taking part in Jung's experiments, even he believed that they were real. That's okay for Freud, but it isn't going to do YOU any good! They are not about to risk their atheist street cred on your sorry ass, and besides, they are entitled to act on the bias they cherish in their hearts, no matter the evidence.
@@IndigoCosmic Yes, and it just seems like a grab bag diagnosis to stick people with, and what's the point? It is stigmatizing, but it might carelessly be given upon superficial examination, without giving enough thought to the person's life, or even listening to what they have to say about themselves. It's not that the Dr ought to be all that interested in you, but their decisions are stigmatizing and life changing to the person affected by them. Talk about cultural norms: in my lifetime, non-conformity, itself, has been a cultural norm! That it is good to depart from "slavish conformity" to one's own birth culture, or the school culture, or consumer culture, or suburban culture, have all been considered valid life choices, not a choice to be alone, but to hopefully find like-minded people, and have friends. Leave the narrow culture of small town America, and find a new life in the city. Based on personal spiritual growth, or disagreements on vital issues,, leave xyz church, and eventually start attending a group at abc church. Make an important moral choice that makes you a pariah in your world. But if it takes awhile to find your new group, the departure from the old one on the basis of issues that matter to you, is not a choice or desire not to have human relationships. It doesn't mean that you don't care about having friends! It might mean that the cost of having friends, in one's original group, is too high, so you might depart from it, and have to be a "loner" _for awhile,_ until, _hopefully,_ you find those friends, and maybe a mate, to start a family with, and live within this smaller sub-culture. This is so common as to be a well-trodden path in our society. I grew up in the "old south", and the irony of having the _same people_ who would loudly condemn my birth culture, come in and stigmatize me for being a "loner", in their professional positions, for my very, principled departures from, and disagreements with, my own birth culture (they might also condemn that as "ruthless", which, if they only knew...! Or cared), is very familiar (I guess I could call this the "Neil Young irony"). And to say that American culture is not just one thing, is pretty obvious. It is made up of so many departures and re-groupings as to make the whole thing look more like slivers of culture than any one, cohesive thing. Statements about our culture always seem like rash, sometimes meaningless generalizations. It seems weird for psychology to condemn principled stands as if they were just choices to not care about having people in your life, anymore, when they aren't. So how do they decide? where do they draw the line? Based on observation, probably about lunchtime. But we also have to consider how prone to reductionism psychology and psychiatry are. How often have principled choices been termed nothing but a refusal to take the pills and "feel good"? Because 'everything is chemistry', "what's so bad about feeling good?" And people who do these principled choices, are not worth their while to be fair to. They are as unattractive, to the typical psych, as Fritz Perls said bad kissers were to him, and should be considered so by the psych's he was addressing in his books or seminars. (To say nothing of the influence of _fashion_ on the typical psych careerist). I guess I just do not think the whole process is very fair or trustworthy.
Thank you so much. This information really helped me in sorting myself out, in clarifying in my mind the differences between schizoid and schizotypal and where I probably fall considering my own life experiences.
Must be hard to diagnose someone with that disorder since there are cultural differences which must be taken into account and because some people have better than the norm level of emotional intelligence and, if they were brought up in a rural setting, better hearing than the norm for their age. While they are able to spot patterns in other people's behavior sooner than most other people around. For example they could hear a male person with a higher pitched voice in the next room while still be able to tell that it is a man's voice there if the doors to both rooms are open. If that man is not a stranger probable they couldn't help eavesdropping if their topic of conversation included their name while becoming alarming to them. Which could lead to him perceiving that soon someone in his group of 12 followers is about to betray them. I had a great uncle who grew up in a rural area and then spent his life working in rural areas as a missionary while becoming a bishop in South Africa. When visiting my grandparents, which was seldom; He could upon first meeting us 'keep an eye' on me and my 2 elementary school too siblings in the next room while at the same time carrying on a conversation with my grandparents and parents and any of my younger aunts and uncles present too. Several months ago I saw a video made by a few Roman Catholic priests. Those priest in that video said all of them were contacted by letter to be told they were needing to attend mental health treatment and all of them present in that video agreed that the priests whom they were in contact with in other cities here in North America were experiencing the same thing.
My child had a forensic textbook for high school and during lockdown in 2020 I read it. There was a whole section on this type of behavior and it said artist usually have this personality disorder.
Wow I'm shocked a textbook would make such a rash and false generalisation! Many believe that a LOT of artists have issues of some sort but for it to say they "usually" have STPD is simply not true
What is the best way to deal with this?? I've been trying to rewire the way my brain strings together odd ideology's, but there's a point to the paranoia that keeps me unable to let my suspicion down. I often find myself unable to ask direct questions, even when intending too. Im in uni livinh with my parents and my dad says he "often needs to have a whole conversation with me to understand what i meant by the first sentence". I'm aware its because i speak in eccentric paranoia, but i think everyone is unintentionally out to get me, which gives me the need to establish a warranted context before speaking to anyone. if anyone has suggestions on what would help plz lmk!
have you looked into OCD? i can relate to the intense paranoia thing and often times folks with OCD have to do some type of checking or compulsion to get rid of the anxiety temporarily . like i get what you mean with the whole “but what if….” thing and that has caused me to have compulsions and what not
also keep in mind this disorder has been highly critiqued (personality disorders as a diagnosis in general really) because the traits overlap with so many other disorders and the symptoms are from a very western viewpoint. someone commented a long block of text explaining how this disorder as a diagnosis is kind of strange
@@loveinstars wow yes! Thank you! This is actually something I’m looking to talk to a professional about SOON! I have been told Its probable I have OCPD but I definitely need to take more steps to help myself through these thoughts and compulsions! :)
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You guys should do one about Schizoid Personality Disorder as well
My natural question after this video would be, how do we draw the line between someone who is very intuitive and someone who is schizotypal? Is SPD simply uncontrolled intuition that has never been counter-balanced by logical thinking? I've met so many new agers who seem like this. Or frankly anyone who is really deep into a religion, they always talk about knowing things that are unknowable with absolute certainty.
to answer your question by example... I am actually a rational minded schizotypal which probably makes no sense so I'll explain. I only believe in things out of experience. Example: when I was younger there was some sort of incident where for roughly 10 minutes I kept getting this feeling that I was being watched and I thought I was going nuts. I kept shrugging it off and continued with my business until it got to the point where I just didn't feel safe. anyway, my eyes kept being drawn to a certain area in my yard where it was VERY dark but not so dark that you couldn't see if something was there. I didn't see anything so I kept telling myself I was imagining it. so there was a big oak tree between me and this spot where I thought I was being watched from and my dog was tied to the tree. around about the time that I was starting to panic about this weird feeling I was having my dog twists her head around to look over her shoulder in the same direction I kept looking. she immediately stood up lowered herself and started growling and barking. There was just enough porch light hitting her to see that every hair on her back was standing straight up. This is actually not the entire story. it gets WAY worse but that was the important part of the story. I don't inherently lack rational thought. It was there nagging at me the whole time. with that said, because I have a lot of experiences like this which usually include human witnesses (who saw/heard/felt the same things) I tend to lean more towards "yeah, these things are real" which makes me come off as a lunatic quite often, yes lol.
Idk about this disorder. Listening to this feels really uncomfortable.There are many many people in the world (because of their beliefs) that could be considered to be 'schizotypal'. If Doctor Ramani is of Indian decent (and Hindu?) I would ask her what she would have to say about the Hindu faith when comparing it to this disorder. Psychologists feel uncomfortable in their own skin and struggle with establishing themselves as 'real scientists', so they constructed this to explain away anything that isn't within cultural norms. I think this diagnosis is dangerous, frankly, it asks people to become something they're not and give away their beliefs and adapt to exactly what? I'd like for her to actually give her list of what 'cultural norms' are.
She reiterates over and over in the video that the cultural context the individual is embedded in matters when coming to a diagnosis. Cultural norms are not globally universal, they vary by culture. So, to use the exact example she gave in the video, someone believes that some arbitrary date, we'll say 3/4, is super unlucky and they need to take action to prevent some tragedy. That obviously isn't the same thing as someone mentioning it's Friday the 13th, a date that people in the U.S. will understand is culturally believed to be "unlucky". (It should be noted, someone getting extremely anxious or going out of their way to stop some vague tragedy on the 13th would still be experiencing unhealthy thinking and behaviors, despite the cultural norms) Another example is an American who believes in fairies. We do not have that as an established cultural belief, but in Ireland, it is. While fairies aren't real, the Irish person's belief is in-line with a cultural norm, and therefore by itself isn't suggestive of a personality disorder. This is the same reasoning by which we do not categorize spiritual or religious beliefs as disordered. You can also buy a book at any bookstore near you on sociology and what defines a cultural norm. You will feel more comfortable when you read more and have more context as to how the field of psychology develops diagnostic criteria.
Sorry but no, psychologists are not uncomfortabble in their own skins...we very clearly know ourselves because in our training as clinical.psychologists we are required to take the MMPI as part of a entire course on its administration and interpretation and write a self report...that instrument identifies personality disorders, it also uncovers general psychological functioning little quirks of perspnality. I for example found I am a somatizer....stress or any negative emotion affects my body to a greater degree than the norm ( I dont act out,,throw temper tamtrums, get depressed,project my problems onto to others. As a result in later life I developed first hyperthyroidism then hypothyrodism...I get high cortisol levels...they destroyed half my thyroid gland. I worked out,,sailed, did yoga LNOWING this about myself but it did not entirely control the cumulative cortisol damage ....I wasnt shocked when I developed this. I had no psychological pathology. I and our professor is looking at everything we do first through a one way mirror live then taped sessions with clients/patients...our supervising psychologist takes our MMPI report and begins examining our personality nefore we ever are turned lose on anyome then we are obvsrved and finally listened to on tape throughout our clinical intership.. In good programs knowing YOURSELF as a therapist comes first before you are turned lose to practice on anyone else... So you are very far off the mark about how our traini g work and the patient safeguards. We DO have different personalities and are individuals but none of us in my program had any mental illness or personality disorder. If a person would be found to in training TO have psyvhological problems they would be referred to professional assistamce and would never be allowed to interact with any clients or patients whatsoever. Contrary to popular assumptions DONT go into psychology to heal oursleves but to understamd mental processes and personalities in order to help others. Professor of clinical psychology since 1979
It happens that there is mouthful people who make others fall crazy sick and eventually are led to the doctor due to the stress. Society supports mouthful people, and victims pay the consequences of them.
I have pathologically poor boundaries and can wind up in lengthy conversations that I don't know how to graciously exit from. A goodly proportion of them, maybe 30% give or take, I would characterise as being with a person who demonstrates a few of these traits. I wonder if other quiet borderlines have had a similar experience to mine in this regard.
LOL I can’t be the only one who noticed the acronym for Schizotypal Personality Disorder (STPD) and read it as shorthand for the word “Stupid.” So I read the video’s title as, “Signs of Stupid,” and immediately thought, “Well I’ve already seen several signs of that in ME, so now I’m nervous.” 🤣
Can we talk about the treatment options for people with multiple illnesses. I have bipolar 2, OCD, Premenstrual Dysphoric disorder plus chronic fatigue and fybromyalgia. How are people with multiple illness coup?
Thank you so much for your work! Also, your website is amazingly helpful. I want to ask you make a video and explain the vibe, the life station of people who are desire to be alone for a lot. This is me! I can’t explain to myself or to others why do I need this time, but only when I am lonely I am in peace ( actually happy), and creative
I used to be along with someone that I think suffered from this condition. I did all that I can to help her but it was fruitless. Is there any way to actually intervene and make it them see their twisted behavior?
been diagnosed with this disorder 2 years ago and people who doesn't know often confuses me of having autism. i throw a tantrum everytime i can't find a top that would perfectly match the color or design of my pants, i feel paranoid everytime someone looks at me without telling me first the specific reason. i get upset when someone talks to me when i dont want to be talk too i also get irritated if they're talking for a long time. definitely not proud of having this but im not ashamed either
This stuff is pretty scary because I have this very very bad it concerns people and I have worried about my own delusions but dates, or surmised incidents, or tangible results like learning a new skill better than experienced persons and etc and even correlated incidents and even a prophetic dream from someone else and a huge answered prayer even to the exact location that I randomly had to return to first time in decades really happened pretty undeniably, but I do admit it all sometimes backfires and makes no sense
lol, i have had magical thoughts scince i was a kid, I think it was that scene in the matrix where the kid shows neo how to bend the spoon. With my adhd/ocd i got obsessed with attaining enlightenment so i could "change reality" so to speak. I ended up joining a cult and wasted money on courses and seminars. There's a whole subculture of people on this spectrum. I think what helped me see things clearly for the first time was learning to lucid dream i had- i basically got what i asked for, i could change reality, i did everything i wanted, for months on and off. I eventually learned that it doesn't matter if you think reality is real or and illusion, its what you choose to expirence, dream, create, interact with the world around you. maybe your dreaming right now? really most people are so unaware...
Do you know of any resources for people who are related to someone with STPD? I’m 💯 sure my older brother has this disorder and growing up with him and dealing with him as an adult has been extremely difficult. I’ve considered breaking ties with him many times but I feel so sorry for him. He has said so many hurtful things to me over the years because he always interprets my words and behaviors as being malicious, when all I’ve ever wanted is to love and accept him. He is extremely eccentric, and no one understands him. He was bullied as a child and we both experienced emotional and physical abuse from our narcissistic father. I’ve been in therapy for years, and I do my best to not take his words and actions personally. It would be so helpful to connect with others who are close to someone with this disorder.
On a more serious note, I'm seeing overlap here with autism such as eccentricity, social anxiety, and lack of close relationships. Do these diagnoses get mixed up?
@@ansjeliek when my oldest was tested for autism, they had me fill out a questiiaire. One of the questions asked if he was "eccentric." What exactly does that mean? Especially in a medical diagnose, it's such a nebulous and opinionated term.
I have StPD and I fly in the face of alot of what was said here. I want to talk about what my experiences have been. I was told it never changes but apparently it DOES! A lot of these things still apply to me but at the same time they don't also. You should talk with somebody who has it in a public forum. I would do it. The DSM 5 is not the end all of end alls.
Intuition, a gut feeling and spiritual discernment, is real. It's in the quantum field. Difficult to put 3 dimensional words to what one senses in the 4th dimension. See Dr. Joe Dispenza's work, Malcom Gladwell's - Blink. For those who live from conscious awareness ( Buddhist monks, those who practice deep meditation ), there is no paranoia or suspicion. There is only listening and discernment.
Okay, intuition is a thing, but it's not a quantum field. It's an ordinary human faculty. It's just the unconscious mind picking up on information that you're not consciously aware of.
I feel like I have 1 and 4 & 5 sometimes BUT in my defense messed up trauma pushed me there!! Used to be completely different before years of psychopathic abuse 🤣
@@ThesySurface They are probably mostly baby boomers. When I was a child, the two most popular girls names were Linda and Debbie. So there are still a lot of us around! I run into them all the time.
Schizotypal Personality Disorder (STPD) has often been critiqued for its lack of diagnostic rigor, which stems from several factors: 1. **Overlap with Other Disorders**: STPD shares many symptoms with other personality disorders, particularly schizophrenia, schizoid personality disorder, and borderline personality disorder. This overlap can make it difficult to distinguish STPD from these other conditions, leading to diagnostic confusion. 2. **Subjectivity in Symptom Interpretation**: Many of the symptoms of STPD, such as odd beliefs, eccentric behavior, and unusual perceptual experiences, are subjective and open to interpretation. What one clinician may see as an eccentric personality trait, another might diagnose as a symptom of STPD. 3. **Cultural and Contextual Variability**: Cultural norms and context play a significant role in how behaviors and beliefs are perceived. In some cultures, beliefs considered "odd" in Western contexts might be normative, making the diagnosis of STPD highly dependent on cultural understanding and interpretation. 4. **Lack of Biological Markers**: Unlike some other psychiatric disorders, there are no clear biological markers or diagnostic tests for STPD. Diagnosis relies heavily on clinical interviews and self-reported experiences, which can vary widely in reliability and accuracy. 5. **Heterogeneity of Symptoms**: The symptoms of STPD can vary widely from person to person, leading to a heterogeneous group of individuals under the same diagnosis. This variability can make it difficult to apply a uniform diagnostic criterion and to develop standardized treatment approaches. 6. **Stigmatization and Misdiagnosis**: The eccentric and unusual behavior associated with STPD can lead to stigmatization, and in some cases, misdiagnosis. Individuals may be labeled with STPD when their behaviors are misunderstood or not properly contextualized. These factors contribute to the ongoing debate within the psychiatric community about the diagnostic criteria for STPD and the need for more precise and culturally sensitive tools to accurately diagnose and treat individuals with this disorder.
My husband talks in circles when he doesn't want me to know about something. Like with our budget book. FOR YEARS, he would talk in circles because he doesn't want me to know ANYTHING about where the money goes. Because I don't bring money into the household, I'm not entitled to any money because I don't EARN it. I'm partially disabled, so I CAN'T work. He doesn't care. He thinks as long as I am doing something at HOME, I can still go to work. I can barely go from one room to another. So, how am I going to get a JOB when I can barely go from one room to another and have a hard time standing for long periods and walking??? So, he limits the money I can have. His mother had Schizophrenia and I think he has some form of it. He has an image to uphold, so everything HAS to be perfect for him. He has SOME "friends" that he talks to from school and a cousin that he talks to ON FACEBOOK, and he talks to his brother and we see him and his wife when they are home. But he really doesn't have any REAL friends that he can "hang out" with. He's kind of "friends" with people from church, but he doesn't "hang out" with the guys outside of church. He's pretty much a loner. He would rather spend his time in his recliner, on Facebook, DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!! But to mention that he should see a doctor about Schizophrenia, he will throw a tantrum. I am planning my "escape". I'm being really careful about how I will go about leaving. I am making sure I have everything that is MINE at my reach. And a friend of mine will come with her husband and help me move out while he is at work. I am SSSSSSSOOOOO looking forward to my day of FREEDOM!!!!!
Dr ramani, idk if this makes you uncomfortable, idk how old you are(sorry for commenting on your age, I was raised better) I am 33 year old man, YOU ARE SUCH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN! and you dress with such class and elegance, and you're a genius, your husband must be a very happy man!
Can Schizotypal PD come up from: C-PTSD and severe longterm sleep deprivation and aLoneliness/isolation with unhelped and harassed Aspergers, HSP, and Borderline functioning?
ADHD;autism ;trauma can all present as many of the symptoms of schizo_"------" disorders from the inside (example : all information being given equal importance and hyper aware pattern recognition) We need to know about overlaps and distinctions
I think that Autistic women might be getting misdiagnosed this more often than men. Autistic women ,especially if they have been sexually assaulted or abused, might develop a paranoia similar to schizotypal personality as well as agoraphobia that would lead to them becoming schizotypal.
When I got diagnosed with Autism, I saw that I also qualified for this disorder in my paperwork. However, I was not diagnosed with it. Why? Because you normally don’t diagnose the two together because they share too many traits. The autism throws off the test too much to justify a second disorder is what I understand. Of course I am sure it is up the clinician’s judgment as to if one shows characteristics that might justify both.
I met a schizotypal very peculiar the tendency to not flash the toilet repetition compulsion . Clearly instigating a confrontation drama . Traits of schizophrenia she will speak as if there was someone in her room ?
I have *every one* of these traits, and I am lucky enough to have enough info about my ancestors to know which line brought it into my family. It’s definitely an inheritable thing.
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Its Autism... Just admit it ... All your words, lead to Autism or brain damage.. whatever you want to call it. tell me I'm wrong. I dare you to tell me that.
You talk about me with a smile. getting upset.
I always wondered if I have the symptoms of SPD or AVPD.
This could be what my father was suffering from. He raised me alone, had no friends, no social interactions apart from his job. The windows blinds in the house were always closed because "neighbors were watching". When I was 12 he started believing that neighbors were listening in on our conversations... he said the topic of those conversations were shown on TV a few days later. He was so convinced of this that he forced me to "test" his theories. Once we had a fake conversation about building a swimming pool in the garden. Days later, on the news, they showed a swimming pool. This was the ultimate proof for my dad. In the end, it made me so uncomfortable, that he stopped talking about it. Apart from that, he was a kind and loving dad. I've always considered his behavior a consequence of his rough childhood. In a way, I've always felt like he put me in a bubble so that I wouldn't suffer like he did. Some people with disorders are genuinely good people. They're just suffering a lot.
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Interesting. I can see the parallel to modern life. Google picks up on conversations and presents advertising. Historically people did have blinds down because they feared what the neighbors thought of them or during war times when appearing to be home wasn't good. People usually have good reasons to keep their blinds down.
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How does Dr. Ramani hold this amount of knowledge in her head? Not only does she have a vast knowledge base of mental health information, but she is able to contextualize everything into real-life understanding. Incredible.
Years of education and experience
She knows the questions ahead of time and preps.
It's a video. We're not shown what's happening when the camera isn't rolling.
I wonder, how easily she could mistaken a hypersensitive Person, with a schizotypal Person. 🤔
This is basically the dsm... many professors and clinicians can explain these and there are only a few personality disorders and that's what she knows most about. I love her videos, she's awesome, but sometimes she caricatures and stereotypes too much.
I knew someone in the 90s who was diagnosed STPD during the time I knew him. He had a lot of issues with inner anger. He used to say, with rising intensity, that he wished he could hook wires between his brain and other individual people so that they could feel and understand his pain. By the time he'd end he'd be in a passionate rage saying that they wouldn't last two minutes before dropping to their knees and begging for it to end. It was sad really. Met him at an anxiety group. And yes I felt very uncomfortable around him but never projected that. In his own odd way he was a kind person but extremely troubled
This is *exactly* how I feel. I am in extreme pain, daily.
@@SleepyStardust3 Me too and I was born this way. I thought everybody hurt everywhere all the time. I already knew I heard, felt, saw,and even smelled things others couldn't but it was a surprise to find out that my pain is mine alone. Inside and out. I have no friends or family besides my 3 kids. No family because I was unwanted and orphaned, no friends because I have enough to deal with. I seem to scare people off. I'm the weird one who if I look into your eyes you think I see your soul. I avoid eye contact for that reason. I still however feel ALL of their energy. It's nice to see on here I'm not alone in this.
That is absolutely not STPD, that’s most likely antisocial personality disorder
Schizotypals usually have a lot of other disorders with that one. BPD is often comorbid. strangely enough StPD actually exists because some doctors noticed that some people with BPD also showed symptoms that were more akin to schizophrenia than to normal BPD. There's actually some surprising relations between a lot of mood disorders and psychotic disorders as well as there milder "personality disorder" cousins.
In the future there may be a new disorder born from them to differentiate between standard STPD and STPD with mood traits similar to how schizoaffective disorder is differentiated from Schizophrenia. It's definitely a possibility.
I absolutely relate to your acquaintance wanting to have someone jump into their scenario so they could relate to their pain! I tell my wife all the time I wish she could be in my shoes for just an hour to understand what I'm going through!
I am a victim of a narcissistic mother and a deeply isolated dysfunctional childhood. I can't help but feel some of these behaviors are due to my childhood trauma. I have a firm grasp on reality, science. I have 2 adult children whom I value above all else.
But I'm scared, terrified of forming relationships. I'm guarded to the point of never having an adult friendship.
So while this looks like disorder from the outside, it's a means of survival on the inside.
I relate to this 😔
Interesting. I was thinking that this almost sounds like the after effects of prolonged narcissistic abuse where the trauma is profound and the abuse was societal... so not just within the family.
I feel the same. Exactly the same. My personality was formed as a trauma response to the same type of narc parent. I don't trust anyone. If you main care giver can screw you over, then anyone can. And they have, and they do. What a life eh.
You are not alone in your thinking and actions. A lot of people are like this.
Exactly these sound like after effects of narcissist abuse and control now I’m only a month out of abuse so these symptoms go aaa?
I was diagnosed with STPD three years ago. I've been emotionally and physically abused all my life. I am twenty six years old and still struggling. Therapy and medications did not solve anything. I was put on fluoxetine, benztropine, and risperidone. The side effects were horrible; I almost died. I stopped taking them after a couple of months, but one of the side effects still remains. The doctors, nurses and social workers were condescending and smug. They couldn't understand how I felt and kept telling me to do things I couldn't do. They were just repeating what they learned in text books. I've learned more on the internet than I did from them. They wasted my time; I shouldn't have gone to them. But if I didn't, I would be long dead; but at least I would have peace.
I want to see a video on selective mutism if you don't mind.
What is that?
You might have autism. I'm autistic and had selective mutism as a child. A lot of autistic traits are shared by STPD, like lack of close relationships, social anxiety, oddness. Similar but not totally the same.
I agree about the doctors, they just regurgitate what they've been taught and don't listen to their patients and don't want to hear anything negative about their beloved drugs. Also they are absolutely clueless on how to help you when their drugs don't work.
I was diagnosed with STPD a couple weeks ago and I relate so much to what you said about the medication and the psychiatrists/therapists. I used fluoxetine too for 5 years, cause they wouldn’t let me stop. it was such a traumatic experience, but they didn’t believe me because usually the medication helps. it got me into multiple psychosis instead.
you’re not alone❤️
@@Pureimagination200 Greta Thunberg has it. It's like an extreme form of anxiety that prevents you from speaking
A friend´s daughter was recently diagnosed with this and I remember her mentioning once that the only person she had in her life was her younger brother and no one else (much to the distraught of my friend, the mother). She also dresses inappropiately (not attention seeking or quirky, just... off), believes in the wildest conspiracy theories and has odd ways of thinking (like things that are every day occurences somehow have some secret meaning that don't connect in any way- the neighbor is wearing red so she can't eat cereal for breakfast today, things like that, where you just say what?). I'm watching videos on this disorder so I can learn more about it and be more supportive for my friend
Can we please open a discussion about this I believe I'm showing alot of the signs of this disorder but not to quite the extreme she is talking about in this video or that you mentioned I dress as many would describe it as wierd my clothes are always unmatching and just not what everyone wears , I get wierd suspicions to the point where I don't sleep and when I know there is nothing going on I am incredibly defensive ie. try to protect myself from harm both physical and mental/emotional, I constantly feel like somebody's going to break in to my home and that keeps me up, I get shakily anxious when talking to many people besides those very close however I do have a lovely girlfriend who understands what I'm going through and I have 3or 4 close friends which surprises me but I do generally feel like people are talking to about me and take the little things to heart and it's effecting my relationship I don't respond how I should emotionally I just shut down and everything stops at that moment I never had any friends till 13 and I met someone by chance that I already kind of knew I had a very very different childhood than every one i know, so it could be environmental but everything points to this I only know of this obscure disorder because I was researching some of the emotions I felt that I knew were not normal and reading about it is different than hearing someone describe it happening to somebody else and it sounds like how I would be and have been for most of my life the only reason I even can do anything is because of other people they made me who I am and I'm very thankful for that and that is kind of what makes me think I might not have spd or just a mild case but it's all there the odd behavior ,the weird clothes ,extreme social anxiety ,lack of friends ,suspicions that are unfounded and I don't know what to do I'm scared to speak to a therapist iv been to every therapist and didn't find the right one i guess , I'm almos not sure but I feel talking about it even with a total stranger might help me
I'm sorry if my jumbled mess of words is hard to understand
@@jonahsymes4060 my friend take care; you’re going in the right direction. You’re trying to find Mental Health counselors and social workers, etc. to talk to. Are you in school? There may be a School Psychologist that you can talk to. Stay strong friend.
You sound like you may be a young person. You’ve got a big long life to live then.
Best wishes. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
You're a good person. Don't ever stop being supportive. After all, it's a disorder, and it is not for dismissal ❤
I hope in the year since you posted this that you've learned how to speak more respectfully about other people's experiences. If you want to be supportive, you don't need to learn more about the disorder. You just need to learn not to be a judgmental cnt.
I am diagnosed schizotypal and I have a family. I have children, a fiance and ONE friend lol. However, I've had to work very hard to have these things and really work on myself. Its really hard for me to connect with people but at least being able to connect with my little family has been a huge success. I still struggle with the disorder but I'm at least not alone.
I often feel my inner life does not resemble anyone else's. To me, so-called normal people are just unchallenged. Anyone of an intuitive, artistic bent will naturally see the world in a different way, talk, dress, joke, etc. How much of boredom with the real world is due to self-referential stuff, and how much is objective reality, ie, our lives can be pretty mundane and repetitive? The stress of making a living and surviving in a competitive, crude, and violent American culture is not to be underestimated.
Intuition and imagination are definitely in a lower percentage of people. -infp 4w5
I would love a video about the differences between STPD and Autism/Asperger as I feel they seem somewhat similar
Particularly after number 5.I don't see 1-4 so much.
I tend to think of STPD as being part of a spectrum analogous to the autism spectrum. Instead, the schizotypy spectrum. I don't think it really has much to do with personality, but more to do with the way the mind forms conceptual structures.
@@hypercortical7772 That's a good point. Doubt it is much "personality". Most autistic people also have trouble with sensory integration, sensory overstimulation. It makes sense to be less "social" when social situations are some of the most stimulating situations possible.
This. A lot of missed autistics got misdiagnosed with STPD amongst other things before finally getting an ASD diagnosis at a later age.
its a personality disorder so it has nothing to do with being autistic. its’ not on a spectrum.
I have STPD but I have had moments of almost completely losing touch with reality. I can eventually navigate out of it but rarely without help.
& my paranoia is almost always directed towards myself. This often puts me situations where I’m being abused because I am so certain that I’m just being paranoid towards that person
I’m incredibly close to my dad, but I’ve never been close to anyone else. Also what she said about it being rare for us to marry or have children makes me sad. I already knew this fact, but I’ve always wanted to be a wife & mother. I know there’s hope, but I’ve often questioned if I can manage it
Remember she said that people with STPD don't marry/have kids because of their beliefs or reluctancy she doesn't prohibit anyone from marrying. People with STPD don't wanna marry but you do! See the clear difference.
there is a famous youtuber that have STPD + Bipolar (" living well with schizophrenia") and she got married with a very loving supporting and good looking partner , they made a kid together. if you want to , if its your desire is to marry...you can do it too. Sure its harder to connect when you have certain problems but..... these mental ilness are just "umbrella"...EVENTUALLY EVERY MIND IS UNIQUE WITH ITS OWN PARTICULAR UNIQUE BALANCE (even the so called "neurotipical and healthy" minds) and not everybody has the same symptoms or all the symptoms and/or at the same level....myself I have a weird case ....I dont fall in STPD at 100% ....maybe at 75% for certain symptoms, and 10% for another symptom. ...the more I study my case the less I know. its weird. Me too I have A STRONG DESIRE FOR ROMANTIC CONNECTION .....but its difficult to find a strong intelligent suitable partner ...its all very complicated when you are NEURODIVERGENT and/or have a personality disorder. but you can FIND LOVE AT ANY AGE so....DONT GIVE UP HOPE ! ;)
@@holembac The problem with STPD isn’t that people just don’t want to get close to people, they’re afraid of getting close to people. This isn’t everyone of course, but it is a very common symptom
I know that a diagnosis doesn’t define my life, but I struggle a lot with avoidance. But recently I did get a girlfriend, so that’s nice
@@chiaravischi thank you. You’re very sweet. I did recently get a girlfriend. My main concern was that I have StPD & AvPD so my avoidant personality disorder fed my social problems & paranoia tremendously. & it’s been really horrible for me, even though I’ve only focused on trying to make friends
@@witchypoo7353this is real asf I’m adhd and stpd and she’s bpd + depression and anxietyb
This is a hard diagnosis because I know people with every single one of these tributes and they actually present extremely advanced psychical vision that is completely substantial and consistent with our perceived reality and are self supporting and self sufficient. And I know people who present this and are on the diagnostic scale for cluster A.
Please show the difference between an abused person who has been let down repeatedly by the system with trust issues vs a schizotypical person
it doesn't exists. :(
Wow! I know what that's like!!!!
I don't think there's a difference there
It's schizotypal, not schizotypical.
I have been diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder. Dr Ramani mentioned its extremely rare for us to be married and become a parent... well i was married and i have 2 kids so i guess its not too rare, but i admit it was very hard and i prefer being on my own..
If you could go back in time, would you marry and have kids, or would you just marry without the kids, or no marriage?
well, I think you kinda proved why it's rare lol, my guess is most schizotypals just choose not to/don't necessarily dream of marrying and/or having children (me included, if I count by just fitting basically all the symptoms)
and then when things go wrong, which it often may due to misunderstanding of everyone involved, it's not like they're fond enough of marriage that they're going to try hard to stay married, they're just gonna be like "eh, not for me anyways, I'm done" and divorce. Not to mention I bet very little people can handle a heart like of a schizotypal for long (their loss)
complete guesswork though
Seems to me the resultant behavior of someone with c-ptsd living in a toxic environment where they are being triggered or manipulated and gaslighted to the point they can only depend on themselves for support.
I think there is a thin line between the two...STPD and CPTSD are inextricable almost the same conditions if toxic family environment and abuse and trauma had been the start of your life. My Case. Mostly because .....STPD is genetical so its passed from parent to child ....a person that has it has a parent that has it....last generation had not the means to know or cure themselves.when i didnt know I had it ...I blamed others and was more "nasty" to others (its part of the disease if you don't know you have it).
EXACTLY 💯
A psychic on the autism spectrum could be mistaken for someone with Schizotypal PD, too.
This can be one of the trickiest conditions to diagnose, IMO, because so much of it is culturally bound and can also be confused with other conditions and combinations of different conditions.
It's also a bit fucked up how not being a scientific materialist thinker is considered a symptom of a disorder by some psychiatrists. It's important to always look out for other symptoms.
So true.
@@joytoyoume7136 I agree. My point isn't that someone on the spectrum can't hold down a job, etc. My point was that based on Dr. Ramani's definition, a person on the spectrum who is also psychic could qualify for this diagnosis, which would be a huge error!
I'm a psychic autistic person and was like...me? Just because a lot of psychiatrist treat me weird about it.
@@rosebutchI am a medium and I have two kids on the spectrum which surprised me because I was just like them as a kid. To me they were normal. To society not so much. I have no friends or family besides my kids. I think that what I've learned today about myself only puts a scientific medical diagnosis "fancy doctor words" to being me.😊
This is part of my diagnosis so I had to check this out. I'm relieved that only one or two of these traits may apply to me. I can see why this is part of my diagnosis. Fortunately I know my perceptions are only that and I'm probably the only one thinking that way. I think I can rule this out. I am major depressive, I don't think I'm bipolar because I feel the same level of crappy all the time. I'm trying to prepare for making possible future therapy meaningful and these explanatory videos help a lot, in fact they've helped me way more than someone sitting there saying nothing and judging me wrongly. I need correct information and homework to do, thank you!
my mom has every symptom of STPD except for social anxiety, so videos like this have been incredibly eye opening. on the point that "people with STPD will rarely be married or be parents" obviously my mom is a parent, but neither of her children speak to her anymore, and she divorced my dad when I was 10. she has hardly ever had friends, and the few friends she did have came and went fairly quickly. she even asked me once, when I asked to stop hearing about her work drama, "well who am I going to talk about this stuff with?". she didn't have anyone to talk to besides me. it was a regular thing for me to hear about how someone she worked with was "jealous" of her and was trying to sabotage her, which was confusing and disorienting for me as a kid. she had a hard time staying in the same workplace for long since she was regularly having interpersonal issues with coworkers. she also is a huge believer in anything involving magical thinking-she calls herself a witch, believes she has clairvoyance and a spirit guide, always keeps an altar, she spent tons of time reading about/talking about divination, numerology, psychic mediums, and even tried to get me and my brother to believe we had magical abilities. some of these things might make sense if she came from a culture with certain spiritual traditions, but she is a white woman from texas. she also believed that when the pandemic started that it was actually caused by 5G so I didn't need to wear a mask, and at one point believed (maybe she still does idk) that aliens built the pyramids. she also has always had a strange way of speaking that caused me a lot of embarrassment and frustration since she seemed not to be able to read social cues that I thought were obvious- she would be loud and use lots of varied tones or laugh very suddenly in an almost jarring way, and would bring up topics that didn't quite relate and spend lots of time talking about herself to the point of steamrolling the other person. like I said, the only trait she didn't show was social anxiety--I once frustratedly asked her, "do you not have shame?" and she responded "no!". it's great to finally get clarity on all these aspects of my mom that confused and distressed me as a kid, I feel like I can make sense of them and put them in perspective, and it's cathartic to see others in the comments with somewhat similar experiences. hopefully I'll eventually have someone in real life I can talk ab this stuff with lol, sorry for the long comment
Your mom/childhood sounds very similar to mine, although my mother chose Christianity to cling onto. I remember as young as 5 or 6, I knew she was different from other people. Even as a child, I would preface any introduction or interaction with a warning of her odd personality & lack of social cues. I still do it to this day.
@@yo_victoria It makes sense that you would do that, I definitely know how that feels. I appreciate you sharing, it’s good to hear other peoples stories and not feel isolated in my experience 💜
Oh well! There's alway much more we're yet to have abilities to explore I won't hold enough guts to label your mother's ideologies ODD but if her friends coming and going was consistent then yes I might question why. Anyways that's my opinion.
But is it autism or STPD...
Uhm white people can be witches and psychic, our White race was originally pagan in ancient times. All of us! and we engaged in magickal workings/ rituals etc all the time. Also out of Norse Paganism came the Völva viking/ Norse witches that would use seidr Magick and were prophetesses , these unwed women would travel through towns meeting with the lady and Lords of the house to visit , heyde give up their seats to the Völva,
they were revered. they'd go into trance and tell them the story of creation all the way to the end of the world and much more. This is ancient white culture, get to know who you are.
Most psychics I know are white including myself. I can even go into trance and see my friends across the globe, see what they're wearing, talking about, doing, thinking etc.... how do u explain that? It's called being psychic. I can also travel out of body to their location to see them. Everyone on my fb friends lists know too. I channel/ travel to them.
00:00 Intro
00:26 1. Ideas of reference (not delusions)
Here, it seems, anyone who believes in G-d can be tagged with this one.
01:25 2. Odd beliefs or magical thinking
Though it may seem odd to others that I believe in G-d, I'm not going to stop doing that. I do not have any superstitions and I do not have any sensitivities to energies or powers or good and bad luck. One thing I have said, about myself, is that I have no luck, acknowledging that others do, or may, and they are allowed to, feel, or have powers, but I don't feel, have, or otherwise wish I had energy or powers or luck.
02:57 3. Unusual perceptual experiences (not hallucinations)
Though I do have unusual perceptual experiences, nothing like what is described in this video, and, I do have a great amount of difficulty getting to the point, in writing and in speech, it's because I see more (perceptual experience) and I have a somewhat larger vocabulary, and I always feel like more can be said about a thing, but I often say something inappropriate, or insensitive, and I lose people on the way, and I recognize that. I wrote a thing once, and I realized I better not share two paragraphs from it, so I cut them out and sent it off to someone to get their opinion. Wouldn't ya know it, there were two other paragraphs that were left in that might have prohibited a bunch of people from ever appreciating the point of the thing I wrote!
04:37 4. Odd thinking and/or speech
Conspiracy theories. Yeah, I don't believe in conspiracy theories, but I can see that they can be very entertaining for a lot of people because a lot of people engage. The cool thing is, they are easy to talk to because they usually just go on and on and they get to talk about the things that matter most to them, themselves and what they think. Like this lady who seems to love talking about street urchins.
05:54 5. Suspiciousness or paranoid ideation
Many years ago, I realized that I treat the people I care about the most much differently than I would the clerk behind the counter at the gas station. I realized that when the people I care about the most would share their ideas, dreams, hopes with me, I would become very concerned, because I love them, but, the way that came out was too often critical and unkind. I realized this and stopped. I did not want to treat people I care about worse than people selling me cigarettes.
With that, suspiciousness of paranoid anything at all, went out the window and I never had a suspicious or paranoid thought since.
What are you looking at? Nobody is looking at me. That would just be weird
07:12 6. Inappropriate or constricted affect
I had tubes put in my ears when I was a kid. I also had my face stomped on by a bully when I was a kid. I often speak too loudly, but its not mental.
I often speak inappropriately, but that is because I have a problem reading a room.
08:48 7. Odd/eccentric behavior or appearance
I do walk funny. That's a fact. I think it's because one leg bone is longer, by a half an inch, than the other and the other leg bone is one half inch short than the other, so my legs are the same length but the one is and the other is. So, I walk funny.
I think some people notice, but what the heck can I do about it?
10:09 8. Lack of close friends or confidants
I currently have no close friends or relationships, save my cousin Tristan. I lost them all by being insensitive to their emotional state of mind at certain times in my interactions with them.
I used to have a bunch of acquaintances and friends, but I could not keep up with them. They were doing cool and exciting things and I simply could not afford the time or the money to keep playing with them. That lowered the pool of friends, and the rest went away because I treated them like I would treat myself. I loved them, but they couldn't know that because I treated them the way I treat myself. I talked to them the way that I would talk to myself.
11:09 9. Social anxiety stemming from paranoia
I do engage with other people.
I do interact with other people.
I have no social anxiety at all. What happens, though, is I will often say things that are inappropriate and the interaction goes south. What can I do to stop hurting people's feelings?
Something that helps me is what my granny would say "just because it popped into your head does not mean it should pop out of your mouth" Is what you're saying relevant? Does it absolutely need to be said? Then scan the room, check your audience for the delivery that is most effective. Sometimes that means keeping it to yourself. Much love to you as you figure yourself out the same as me.❤️
Thanks, Joe. Just this weekend, I made a breakthrough. I was finally able to associate a strange feeling I have had in recent years with loving kindness and friendship. The feeling was a kind of frustration I would sometimes have with my cousin, because I didn't know how to "correct" him. As I "studied" the way my brother in-law was treating me over the course of the last several months, I came to realize that he was loving me, like a friend would do. This came to remind me of how my mother loved me when I was a kid and while I was supposed to learn something about how to treat people the way you want to be treated, I became stingy with my "friendship", severe in my judgments, and long winded in my arguments. I feel like I am at the starting line, but now I know how it's supposed to feel when I am being a friend. Heart. I don't know how to make an emoji...@@joedirt3970
@@todddavis9412 I have been told recently that I am mean to myself. I have also noticed recently that I let my frustrations about things or people out on the ones who are not frustrating me. I want to thank you for opening up because it's not easy. We are the type who can count on one hand the people we love and care about. Sadly as we get older less fingers are displayed because our loved ones cross over. The love and what they taught us through that love lives on. I know I push potential friends away without trying. I blab on and on and am trying to learn to listen just listen. Without going into my life experience on the subject I've learned a simple "I totally understand" works much better. If I'm asked I'll go deeper but understanding the importance of everyone's need to just be heard is a lesson I'm working on. I have had trouble interrupting and talking over people thinking what I have to say has to be heard. Whether what I'm saying is actually helpful or not gets lost by my inconsideration. People who truly love you and care about you will call you out on things like this. It's important even when it stings to say thank you, I'm sorry, and I'm working on it. My granny would tell me as I would go off on tangents about all the bad/sad things going on that I would get no sympathy from her. "You want to know where to find sympathy?" She would say "It's in the dictionary somewhere between shit and syphilis!" When she called me it wasn't to hear the bad or the good. It was to hear my voice and to tell me to take pictures and make memories and "give the babies a kiss on the butt for me" and that she loved me. The one I live by everyday is that I was hired out to be tough. She was a Marine and Texas Ranger so if she thought I was tough I can handle anything. Even if you're not one to say it show or tell the lucky few in your life how much you appreciate and love them. A smile or hug can save a life sometimes.
Man I always knew I had this disorder but I never realized how similar the symptoms were until I watched this video. Some of these hit home man
My mom was diagnosed with this personality disorder. I recognize some of these personality traits in her but I truly believe she was diagnosed incorrectly or not to the full extent.
Dr Ramani is a woman of pure light and goodness. She can explain any illness in terms that everyone can understand yet without ever dehumanising them vilifying them. She is outstanding in her field of work and her passion shines through. She makes me feel human ❤
Thanks Dr Ramani, you’re so knowledgeable in your field it’s a joy to watch you explain the margins of different mental afflictions and so sad when you teach us the quite devastating ramifications of even lesser psychiatric illness
I discovered that I am in this schizotypical personality aspect... I managed to meet my partner at 30 years old. He is autistic, the meeting was perfect, we have been married for 20 years.
I'm 43 and have been in therapy for years and was diagnosed with bipolar one with psychotic tendencies. I heard schizotypal for the first time today on some true crime thing I was watching and it stopped me in my tracks. I'm only three traits in and had to pause to say one thing. Magical thinking is something I have dealt with my entire life. There were many before this but this one sticks out. When I was eleven I heard a voice that kept saying "Jamie and Janie come home" I was staying at a friend's house that night and told his mom what I kept hearing. She patted me on my little head and sent me back to play. 15 min later the phone rang and it was someone telling her that her oldest child's friend Jamie had been killed in a motorcycle accident. All night as I laid on the couch I could hear them talking about how I could have known that. I was worried about something else. My mom's name was Janie and she died two days later. 😢 As an adult I had the most vivid daydream at work about a disturbing serious life-changing conversation. I even said out loud "WTF was that" about a week later that exact person in the exact room I had seen said the exact words and it wasn't something typical or anything I would have ever thought this person would or could do in a million years. As horrific as the words I heard were I was in shock that I had already seen this happen in vivid detail down to the clothes they were wearing while I was fully awake! I do believe this is my true diagnosis and it answers many questions. Don't discount everything as magical some is premonition but either way it's not easy being this way.
There are things one just can’t talk about with other people. There are some in your life that will understand your gift (curse?) but you just have to use caution. Otherwise you get diagnosed with something you don’t have. You’re never going to change the future that you see. It’s a burden.
I’m glad that Dr Ramani described the certain energies vs people who are fake.
I've finally found the perfect personality disorder suiting me? I thought I was just weird lmao
I have actually been diagnosed with this personality disorder, I don't have close relationships outside of family but I am a mother. I didn't present with all of these symptoms but I did present with enough of them to be diagnosed with it. Something she didn't mention though is that a person is more likely to have this if a family member has been diagnosed as schizophrenic. My grandmother is.
I think I'm Schizotypal and my dad is Schizophrenic but I think the disorder shouldn't be classified as one. It sounds like they are trying to limit intuitive people who can tell what's going on behind the scenes.
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based. that's what I think too. I can literally see God, it's like reality is 2D like wallpaper that I could metaphysically reach out and tear to see God working the machinery of reality behind the scenes. I think many people with schizotyal PD have this experience. Maybe not exactly the same, but at least the experience of almost perceiving another dimension, even if we're not quite able to properly understand it or even describe it because it's beyond physical comprehension. my mind can kind of understand it but my mouth can't describe it. reality looks almost like it has a tilt-shift lens on it for me. That lens allows me to see God. I call it 'hyper-reality'. Do you have something similar? if so, have you managed to glean any revelations from it? I think there are secrets and answers to be uncovered. Thousands of years ago, so-called "schizotypals" and "schizophrenics" would be called Shamans. Shamans used to be highly valued people in tribal societies for their ability to see beyond the veil.
@@salemslostchild interesting Point. every "personality disorder" is simply a definitive deviation from the majority of neurotipical "standard" brains that only seems "ALL RIGHT" AS THEY LIVE IN A WORLD BUILT FOR THEM, as they are in majority and find an OBVIOUS easy connection between them and adapt well in this SUPER SICK SOCIETY as this society is built by "neurotipicals for neurotipicals " .what they call "a personality mental disorder" as STPD (as long as is not too extreme,they become extreme also because of the ENVIRONMENT , I have it now and seems more evident as I live in a 99% neurotipical "middle class" enviroment but in the artistic world I was considered more than okey and functioning and still I am considered okey and more understood between artists and hyper creative slightly atipical open-minded people or HIGH IQ people ) makes you SIMPLY unadaptable and makes you distance yourself from this sick contemporary society ....
STONE AGE IS OVER BUT JUST CONSIDER that people considered "MENTALLY STABLE" AND HIGLY FUNCTIONING HEALTHY NEUROTYPICALS (as prime ministers of our western countries) FIND WARS A GOOD SOLUTION AND KILLING THOUSANDS OF THOUSANDS OF KIDS AND INNOCENT LIVES EVERY YEAR TO GAIN MORE POWER IN TH INTERNATIONAL GLOBAL SCHEME ..... and the majority of neurotipical people believe is Okey too.......LIKE.......
WTF .......THEN THEY GIVE EACH OTHER "FREEDOM&PEACE " AWARD MEDALS....LIKE........... .......TO ME THIS IS MADNESS.I dont know about you .ITS THE NEUROTIPICAL MENTALITY THA IS SICK. BUT THEY ARE THE MAJORITY SO .... :(.....
I have HPD and my best friend has STPD. We hang out every Friday night at my place.
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I was diagnosed with this at 16 years old and im happy to have been able to use the diagnostic criteria for being able to see when i was acting "inappropriately" because ut has helped alot i still struggle but am able to hold down jobs and a relationship .. i may not have many friends because they dont understand the fear i have of telling them i think theyre mad at me because it makes me seem self centered but i have my partner who is amazing with dealing with it and calls me out for being ridiculous and also saying what parts of my arguments make sense but shows they dont add up in the long run
Is this autism or schizotypy
keeping friends is just such a struggle though, how can people even deal with keeping more than 1 or 2 relationships, I've always struggled. Also sometimes you really just need someone to explain to you where you're being nonsensical in a way that makes sense to you, but oftentimes it's just "you're making no sense" or "that's not true" with no further elaboration even when you ask for it
I think this is me and I'm now insane. Lol. I'm definitely eccentric and talk to myself. Laugh at inappropriate times. I have a very interesting dialogue in my head. I don't need company because I'm quite satisfied with what's going on in my head. I am isolated with no family contact. They don't understand me. But I am kind and loving. I'd help anyone.
"I don't need company because I'm quite satisfied with what's going on in my head." FELT. THAT.
@@MariaClara-vf7rx so pleased 🤗
@@stormyweather9038 I have felt repulsed by touch many times in the past. But lately I yearn for it, I'm so lonely. I pretend that Jesus is holding me so I can sleep at night as I'm so lonely. I fantasise about being cuddled.
@@vanessas2363 just envision Jesus and the way will become clear. Believe He is your Lord and Savior and then try to align with his teachings and you are on the right path. And use positive self talk.
i think that’s just being an infp
This is the first time i've heard my diagnosis explained in the decade since i was diagnosed. I'm really glad i looked for this video.
I've got severe cptsd.i can sense energy due to hyper vigilance.some have psychic abilities.but some are of course schizoid
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I relate to your comment Prussian. However I believe it is bog standard normal to pick up on energy around us and am surprised that, unless I’m mistaken, my beloved Dr Ramani seemed to imply being aware of energy is pretentious or ‘off’.
For 9 years I worked in a very quiet open office of 60 people. My desk was at the far corner of the room with my back to the room. Each day I would notice my body relax and a calm descend, my focus cleared, energy boosted and when I turned to check the difference most folk had already shut down their computers and left for the day. Since lockdown changes there are very few in the same office and it is noticeable that this dramatic daily effect has gone. Previously there was a bullying manager in the office, it was notable that when she entered the space the energy in the room changed. The discomfort was tangible without having seen or looking for the cause. I also noticed signals like heels stabbing into the floor, speed of walking, had an effect like a wave going around the room. The changes in atmosphere in the room affected my body first, then my mind caught up by asking the question …. What’s changed?
Once my team started to discuss this openly and more folk became conscious it became clear it was an experience common to us all, of which people had not previously been fully conscious. I believe the awareness comes from a sensitivity to vibration, sensory processing of hearing. EG An intermittent vibration in the office was triggering my body to react with anxiety but no one else could hear/feel it and they were laughing at me. I pointed out to them every time it started and stopped. They then became aware of the ‘something’ and between us we finally worked out it was from the hand drier in the loos far along the corridor.. my mind was calmed by reason although my body still reacted for a while. Another example was when I realised my screen interacted with my landline phone creating a loud buzz if I happened to touch the screen whilst I was on the phone. The buzz stopped if I removed my finger from the screen. Again they laughed til I made them try it and they ALL verified the same unexpected phenomena. Throughout all of these (and more) I wasn’t consciously being hyper vigilant but seriously focussed on work requiring intense quiet concentration; still those atmospheres or phenomena broke through to my body consciousness first, which in turn broke into my mental awareness and caused me to check.
Surely this sensing of energy is a normal capacity and not mental illness or ‘special’ in any way, especially as when it’s brought to awareness everyone can sense it, we just tune it out as irrelevant? I don’t believe we are all equally aware because some folk prefer lots of stimulation and others find that to be totally overwhelming.
Also I dance and the instructors teach that it’s important to stay relaxed as stress vibes spread around a dance floor like a virus making the difference between a great social event and an uncomfortable one.
I recently watched a TED talk on auditory processing in which the speaker demonstrated the effects of background noise on the accuracy of hearing in some subjects. During the demo my body reacted viscerally with anxiety caused by my inability to discern sounds, reproducing exactly the same effect as did the large office. My hearing tests as acute although I struggle to discern group conversation say in restaurants, crowds, swimming pools. These body responses dramatically increased 18years ago following taking a single tablet of an antibiotic to which I had an immediate visceral reaction. I sometimes wonder if this is somewhat akin to what autistic children experience but they do not have the benefit of maturity and experience to help them manage it?
@@ecatcheshire9741 that's interesting about the autism. You whole rely was interesting.
it is not called " sense energy" but an ability to read body language, you have got to talk in scientific words to be taken seriously by doctors, that is why well educated people get fewer psychiatric diagnoses than lower class folk : prejudice
@@BaiMengLing My father born in 1928 with 3 university degrees. Including an engineering degree. He was given a diagnosis of schizophrenia, and manic depression.
My ex was exactly like that, plus he was very much into the narcissistic and borderline spectrum. A deadly combination I would say from my experience. We stayed together for 2.5 years, in the beginning he would talk and talk about stuff that didn’t make sense, but I thought it was because he was smoking too much weed and he was “spiritual”.Then he started showing delusional thoughts about other people, about me, and it got to a point where he completely transformed into a paranoid manipulative and cold person. No glimpse of logic would apply to a conversation with him, as he thought that I was the one manipulating him. Very strange experience, wouldn’t wish it to anybody. It left me with CPTSD, trust issues and depression. Now I understand that he was just sick, but I will never forgive him for the damage he did to me, mostly because of his narcissism and manipulations he did to me that destroyed my mental health.
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This is very interesting, but at the same time, after watching several videos, I am beginning to think everyone has some kind of personality disorder. Is it even possible to not have one in this day and age? (I promise I am not saying that arrogantly, just really wondering.) Could all these names sometimes just be describing what makes individuals unique, or is it just when one is taken to an extreme. Also, A question, when they "feel the presence" or whatever, and they are not hallucinating, are you mean they truly believe this or a part of them is making this up to make sense of weird feelings that really don't make sense? I just want to understand. I totally apologize if I sound like a jerk, I am just fascinated with the mind. Many blessings
Perhaps if everything is a spectrum we are all on it and therefore can espress multiple traits, historically this personality she describes is the essence of the Shaman and healers,
Yes, there are very mentally healthy people out there. You can be sad, angry, loving, sensitive and healthy as can be. When you are in the presence of a mentally healthy person you want to remain there, because they don't dump anything on you, they support you, and they make you feel like a million bucks without demanding you do anything outrageous for them. Seeing an entire healthy family will make you want to cry because it is soooo beautiful.
I get what she saying but if you have never experience people she's describing, you may think someone who mentions they are a sensitive and can truly feel things, are actually schizotypal
Personality disorders are part of three clusters. These three clusters represent certain type of personalities people tend to fall into, and when they end up becoming a struggle for the person to adapt to society is when they are called personality disorder. So yep, it's like a spectrum of traits that can just described behaviors or disorders depending on the severity
All of my friends (some of them are pretty normal and functioning) who've been to a psychiatrist have gotten a diagnosis of some sort of a personality disorder. Everyone else I know that haven't visited a psychiatrist don't have a personality disorder diagnosis. It's just a matter of seeing a psychiatrist or not seeing one.
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I worked with a dude who would literally spaz out and even threat people with a hammer ext.. because they were standing around talking and he was so convinced that they were talking about him. He even claimed at one point that someone poisoned his coffee! He accused me once for talking about him, which I was absolutely not! 🤨😳
I've never known very much about this disorder. Interesting symptoms..I have a few of them, but they don't have anything to do with social anxiety. I'd be curious to know Dr. Ramani's thoughts on paranormal issues and whether she has ever experienced them. It's kinda like seeing aliens, you don't believe until you see one. I've had a few encounters. Currently, we have a haunted bakery here in out little town. Before the bakery took over the house it was an art gallery and before that back in the 20's it was a home for a few elderly people and their nurse. It is a simple turn of the century shotgun home with a wrap around porch. Very charming, but everyone who has rented it has had encounters, usually auditory. The police have stopped a few times to check out things moving on the porch when no was there. The bakery owner let me listen to a man laughing that showed up on her phone. I think everyone can feel energy to some extent, even if it is just the feeling someone is standing too close behind you at the supermarket. I was in the bakery a few weeks ago looking at the pastries in the case and was so sure someone was standing behind me wanting to look, that I unconsciously moved to the side....when I turned around, no one was there...at least no one I could see.
I'm curious if these need to be lifelong traits and how many have to be present. I am a writer and I would bet writers laugh to themselves all the time. When I'm working on a story I literally carry the characters around with me and watch them in my head to see what they are going to do next. Since I've retired, they can take up hours of my time, and are generally much more interesting than the local gossip. I used to spend a lot of time around people out of necessity, I can go days without seeing anyone now, but it is not because of social anxiety, its mostly boredom and not having much in common with a great many people. I think people who have a lot of solitary habits and hobbies can get a bad rap from psychology at times.
This Schizotypal traits are happens a lot in asia ahahaha.
Im from s.e.a, and ghost stories are our daily life. Me and my bestfriend can sense tv's electromagnetic waves. Haunted place? I can sense it. My colleagues can sense people, like gut feeling. Does that makes me and my friends are Schizotypal?
@@nonienandya6585 My Amer-asian niece could see ghosts as a child and was visited by the departing spirit of a nun who helped her father immigrate from Vietnam..She saw her on the day she died and before anyone in the house knew she was dead.
I am most familiar with the ghost stories from Japan and Thailand. The Yokai have made their way into American video and adventure games, but not in a way that imparts understanding of their part in the cultural fabric of Asia. I am a very big fan of film maker Hayao Miyazaki and the playful spirits in his films that actually retain their societal role. Does culture turn toxic when it loses the beauty inherent in its mythology and turns toward only what one can get away with under the banner of biological materialism? Interesting question.
A friend who does woodworking builds birdhouses. He was mystified because one of the more elaborate ones never got any birds. I told him he'd probably kept demons away from the house by building them their own beautiful place to live (Thai Spirit house). I hope he doesn't see this video. He'll blame that and our political differences on insanity. I'll never live it down!!
@@nonienandya6585 if you have five of the nine traits. You can just be weird and believe in aliens or ghosts
@@nonienandya6585 depends on the culture you are embedded in. listen to ramani
What I gather from the symptoms of this disorder is. An individual who is able to think beyond what we are taught to believe is an odd eccentric chap with no socia life. I get the band social life part but do I get anything about paranoia part? It's STPD when paranoia isn't at extreme but do we all not have it? About magical thinking? It's highly intuitive things vary from culture to culture and bear with me please when I say most of these beliefs do come true in most forms in most cultures I give u an example, when it's full moon day, our Energies fluctuate because about 70% of our body is made up of water. It goes the same ways with the tides in ocean on the full moon day. And it's the belief most cultures have been holding primordially, if someone had come up to any westerner in 80s or way earlier about this they would be thinking of him/her to be BIZARRE.
Anyways despite everything I am very new to this field and all ears to experienced and more learned people who can enlighten me more about this subject.
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8 out of 9 is pretty bad I guess. Point 6 is what I hate the most, because it's inappropriate but to me it feels like it is appropriate though I know it's not. I like the constricted days a lot more, I feel like a robot on those days and my head is just empty. There where usually is chaoes there is nothing, you could tell me anything and there wouldn't be any emotional response. Point 9 I could never be the husband or the father that I would like to be and so I stay alone, because no one deserves to have to put up with that, especially not the one I'm in love with. I'd rather die due to a broken heart than putting her through that. Odd speaking and behaviour is so tiring when I have to suppress it, that's why I like working with animals because they don't care whether I am talking in different accents or gibberish or gibberish in different accents. If there was a camera following me the whole day, you could easily cut a 1 hour try not to laugh challenge from what I do and say.
U probably won't want to but can I talk to you about this I'm going through a lot and Im almost positive I have stpd and it's making everything in my life difficult and I just need someone to talk to I don't want to go to a psychiatrist cus of the medication they're inevitably going to prescribe and I just need someone who can relate to me please
@@jonahsymes4060 you want to talk?
My teen daughter many times will say: "What? Why are you looking me? Stop staring at me!" and I'm only looking at her because I'm talking to her and sometimes because she just walked into the room and I noticed she came in. It's like I'm supposed to purposely look away so she won't think I'm staring. I hope this isn't schizotypal. It's just that I haven't heard from another parent that their teen is the same way.
I did that too..
This is normal teen behaviour on its own
Maybe you have a hard stare and don’t realize 😂
That is extremely normal teenage behavior. That’s why personality disorders shouldn’t be diagnosed in teens. It’s normal for them to be a little crazy. All these new hormones and chemicals are coursing through their brains.
Some of these symptoms might be exacerbated by PTSD (which I am sure plenty of people are experiencing after the last few years)
Why does psychology incorporate beliefs into a diagnosis? How many cultural practices are rooted in "magical" thinking, and who can decide what falls outside a culture's norm, mainly if they are not part of that culture?
I was uninhibited and truly felt better about myself before seeking treatment from the mental health system. I turned to them because i literally had nobody else. Ive had or had been suspected of having almost all of the abnormal psych labels there are. Never actually received any relief from the anxiety, triggers, poverty, or isolation though. In all the many many many years of treatment. Ive only come to know that "something is wrong with me" by the same professionals that contradict that statement. And funny enough, theres some people on here who mention being in their head alot who are also a meyers briggs personality type infp. Well, im infp 4w5. And you know? How could a terrible system destroy a personality type that only wanted ideals, beauty, harmony, real connection that entails deep aknowledgement and authenticity, and for the protection of all without a voice? Not only that, but the real world is very harsh. And its true how friggin mundane it is. So of course an intuitive mind is going to want to escape inwards.
@@danab172 I hear what you're saying, that an infp type is experiencing the world normally for them. No harm done. Good post.
I love these sessions with Dr. Ramani because they ware subtiteled.😊
My favorite house/scene decoration is the roadkill rug on 1:03
The tone of this video is off. She sounds condemning or mocking them.
I think her education is so important to people and it’s helped so many understand themselves and others. That said; this particular video came off egotistical herself. It was giggling and the “and I would say to my dinner partner..”
She openly admits she would judge, and then gossip about someone after they made one statement. 🤨
Do people with "HSP" highly sensitive people have this? Sometimes it is possible to pick up the vibes in a room or pick up on other people's moods. Carl Jung called this extroverted intuition but I have no idea as not a psychologist.
I actually have both which makes me about twice as weird lol.
I’m not a fan of schizotypal because it is very colonial. All indigenous people have these gifts. This is not a culturally competent conversation.
think that's why one of the most important things to consider before diagnosing a disorder is that it doesn't fit with their cultural norms. they did state in the video that the symptoms has to be drastically different/not a result of the cultural environment the person grew up in.
also they won't diagnose a disorder if it doesn't impair the person's life or functioning in any way. then it's not a disorder.
Sorry if this is "too long to read", but I can't find a way to tell it shorter: I had some experiences that would be classified as psychic, but I think of, and experienced, as demonic. Hey, my religious faith calls them demonic, and I certainly agree, so if my faith is termed my culture, then believing that should not be called insane, should it? Well, you know how the world is about these things.
I had a breakdown under the extreme stress of a terror campaign (some people don't agree with _repentance_ from "psychic" things), but I was diagnosed as if the stress was all in my mind. I underwent several more hospitalizations, but I was improving in my ability to live with these realities. When I was finally taken off major tranquilizers, my improvement soared! I think that's probably pretty common.
My psychologist had been a teacher of physiological psychology at a local teachers' college. When they merged with the university across the street, she was working on tenure, but soon determined that they didn't want her. They had a school of medicine, after all, to employ in teaching that subject. We discussed the problem of having real experiences that the scientific establishment refuses to acknowledge. She said "the people on my side of the street tend to be the kind who believe that *'there is more in heaven and earth than is dreamt of in your philosophy' ,"* but the ones across the street, including the school of medicine, no. Everything with them is all materialism, all the time. "If it cannot be seen with the eyes, or measured in some way, it isn't real." Atheist: sane. Believer in God: insane. Insanity: doing what does not please Stalin.
Years later, I was being maintained on Paxil (imagine how much better I felt when I finally got off that!), but did not have any regular psych therapy, other than to have the drugs prescribed and managed. My physical doctors, residents at the University clinic, were not the best I'd had, and some of them were mean, rude, insulting jerks. One told me off, citing the authority of her father, a psychiatrist, for _feeling my emotions too much in my body,_ which was unforgivably neurotic! (My cousin: "what is she: 12 years old?") Finally one gave me an ultimatum, that I had to engage with adult psychiatry, or else, so I made an appointment to find a therapist.
I was called for intake on a Saturday, when no one else was in the office, but the intake person and myself. She was a nice, young woman, a grad student, and she made herself pretty easy to talk to. I explained, the best I could, what my life was like, and what I thought I needed. I told her that I didn't mind talk therapy, but I had had experiences that were supernatural, and was concerned that I might end up with someone who had this materialist bias, who would "grade" me harshly for simply telling my life as it is. I told her what my psychologist who'd taught in the university had said.
Her reaction: She said that she thought there was a lot to consider in that, and that my psychologist's report was mostly true. She was Brazilian, and had grown up in Brazil, and that *nobody* in Brazil--not any psychiatrists, or any kind of scientists, or anyone with a responsible job of any kind--no one--doubted the existence of spirits, because literally everyone had experiences of the reality of spirits in Brazil, whether they are favorable to them, or against them. So her recommendation was that I not seek therapy in the clinic, because everyone I was likely to encounter would have this materialist, atheist, positivist bias, and I was likely to not be treated well because of it.
Yay! I was so grateful. And I thank God for providentially giving me that young woman as my intake, and also for the sweet psychologist I had seen a few years past my breakdown. So yeah, all this buildup, just to share what she said, but it is very true. Most of these "Yankee materialists", if they were visiting a place like Brazil, would be bowing and scraping to prove how _valid_ they believed the indigenous population's experience was. "We have much to learn from you!", they would ooze. But returning to the US, they would crush you for believing the same things are real. They would hardly grant that they were "valid". But when Freud was taking part in Jung's experiments, even he believed that they were real. That's okay for Freud, but it isn't going to do YOU any good! They are not about to risk their atheist street cred on your sorry ass, and besides, they are entitled to act on the bias they cherish in their hearts, no matter the evidence.
She literally said this dx is not consistent with a cultural norm.
@@IndigoCosmic Yes, and it just seems like a grab bag diagnosis to stick people with, and what's the point? It is stigmatizing, but it might carelessly be given upon superficial examination, without giving enough thought to the person's life, or even listening to what they have to say about themselves. It's not that the Dr ought to be all that interested in you, but their decisions are stigmatizing and life changing to the person affected by them.
Talk about cultural norms: in my lifetime, non-conformity, itself, has been a cultural norm! That it is good to depart from "slavish conformity" to one's own birth culture, or the school culture, or consumer culture, or suburban culture, have all been considered valid life choices, not a choice to be alone, but to hopefully find like-minded people, and have friends. Leave the narrow culture of small town America, and find a new life in the city. Based on personal spiritual growth, or disagreements on vital issues,, leave xyz church, and eventually start attending a group at abc church. Make an important moral choice that makes you a pariah in your world. But if it takes awhile to find your new group, the departure from the old one on the basis of issues that matter to you, is not a choice or desire not to have human relationships. It doesn't mean that you don't care about having friends! It might mean that the cost of having friends, in one's original group, is too high, so you might depart from it, and have to be a "loner" _for awhile,_ until, _hopefully,_ you find those friends, and maybe a mate, to start a family with, and live within this smaller sub-culture.
This is so common as to be a well-trodden path in our society. I grew up in the "old south", and the irony of having the _same people_ who would loudly condemn my birth culture, come in and stigmatize me for being a "loner", in their professional positions, for my very, principled departures from, and disagreements with, my own birth culture (they might also condemn that as "ruthless", which, if they only knew...! Or cared), is very familiar (I guess I could call this the "Neil Young irony").
And to say that American culture is not just one thing, is pretty obvious. It is made up of so many departures and re-groupings as to make the whole thing look more like slivers of culture than any one, cohesive thing. Statements about our culture always seem like rash, sometimes meaningless generalizations. It seems weird for psychology to condemn principled stands as if they were just choices to not care about having people in your life, anymore, when they aren't.
So how do they decide? where do they draw the line? Based on observation, probably about lunchtime.
But we also have to consider how prone to reductionism psychology and psychiatry are. How often have principled choices been termed nothing but a refusal to take the pills and "feel good"? Because 'everything is chemistry', "what's so bad about feeling good?" And people who do these principled choices, are not worth their while to be fair to. They are as unattractive, to the typical psych, as Fritz Perls said bad kissers were to him, and should be considered so by the psych's he was addressing in his books or seminars. (To say nothing of the influence of _fashion_ on the typical psych careerist). I guess I just do not think the whole process is very fair or trustworthy.
@@discorporeal_ So non-conformity to ones birth culture is always a certifiable disease process?
Thank you so much. This information really helped me in sorting myself out, in clarifying in my mind the differences between schizoid and schizotypal and where I probably fall considering my own life experiences.
It is close to schizophrenia but not quite. Used to be called borderline schizophrenia decades ago. Interesting personality disorder.
Must be hard to diagnose someone with that disorder since there are cultural differences which must be taken into account and because some people have better than the norm level of emotional intelligence and, if they were brought up in a rural setting, better hearing than the norm for their age. While they are able to spot patterns in other people's behavior sooner than most other people around. For example they could hear a male person with a higher pitched voice in the next room while still be able to tell that it is a man's voice there if the doors to both rooms are open. If that man is not a stranger probable they couldn't help eavesdropping if their topic of conversation included their name while becoming alarming to them. Which could lead to him perceiving that soon someone in his group of 12 followers is about to betray them. I had a great uncle who grew up in a rural area and then spent his life working in rural areas as a missionary while becoming a bishop in South Africa. When visiting my grandparents, which was seldom; He could upon first meeting us 'keep an eye' on me and my 2 elementary school too siblings in the next room while at the same time carrying on a conversation with my grandparents and parents and any of my younger aunts and uncles present too. Several months ago I saw a video made by a few Roman Catholic priests. Those priest in that video said all of them were contacted by letter to be told they were needing to attend mental health treatment and all of them present in that video agreed that the priests whom they were in contact with in other cities here in North America were experiencing the same thing.
I watch these videos and I wonder how many symptoms are from personally disorders and how many are from learning and trauma?
My child had a forensic textbook for high school and during lockdown in 2020 I read it. There was a whole section on this type of behavior and it said artist usually have this personality disorder.
Wow I'm shocked a textbook would make such a rash and false generalisation! Many believe that a LOT of artists have issues of some sort but for it to say they "usually" have STPD is simply not true
@@sorchaoreilly2633 I would say it's maybe more accurate to say the opposite, schizotypals usually get interested in art
What is the best way to deal with this?? I've been trying to rewire the way my brain strings together odd ideology's, but there's a point to the paranoia that keeps me unable to let my suspicion down. I often find myself unable to ask direct questions, even when intending too. Im in uni livinh with my parents and my dad says he "often needs to have a whole conversation with me to understand what i meant by the first sentence". I'm aware its because i speak in eccentric paranoia, but i think everyone is unintentionally out to get me, which gives me the need to establish a warranted context before speaking to anyone.
if anyone has suggestions on what would help plz lmk!
have you looked into OCD? i can relate to the intense paranoia thing and often times folks with OCD have to do some type of checking or compulsion to get rid of the anxiety temporarily . like i get what you mean with the whole “but what if….” thing and that has caused me to have compulsions and what not
also keep in mind this disorder has been highly critiqued (personality disorders as a diagnosis in general really) because the traits overlap with so many other disorders and the symptoms are from a very western viewpoint. someone commented a long block of text explaining how this disorder as a diagnosis is kind of strange
@@loveinstars wow yes! Thank you! This is actually something I’m looking to talk to a professional about SOON! I have been told Its probable I have OCPD but I definitely need to take more steps to help myself through these thoughts and compulsions! :)
You guys should do one about Schizoid Personality Disorder as well
My natural question after this video would be, how do we draw the line between someone who is very intuitive and someone who is schizotypal? Is SPD simply uncontrolled intuition that has never been counter-balanced by logical thinking? I've met so many new agers who seem like this. Or frankly anyone who is really deep into a religion, they always talk about knowing things that are unknowable with absolute certainty.
It’s why there are so many factors to analyse the disorder.
to answer your question by example... I am actually a rational minded schizotypal which probably makes no sense so I'll explain.
I only believe in things out of experience. Example: when I was younger there was some sort of incident where for roughly 10 minutes I kept getting this feeling that I was being watched and I thought I was going nuts. I kept shrugging it off and continued with my business until it got to the point where I just didn't feel safe. anyway, my eyes kept being drawn to a certain area in my yard where it was VERY dark but not so dark that you couldn't see if something was there. I didn't see anything so I kept telling myself I was imagining it. so there was a big oak tree between me and this spot where I thought I was being watched from and my dog was tied to the tree. around about the time that I was starting to panic about this weird feeling I was having my dog twists her head around to look over her shoulder in the same direction I kept looking. she immediately stood up lowered herself and started growling and barking. There was just enough porch light hitting her to see that every hair on her back was standing straight up.
This is actually not the entire story. it gets WAY worse but that was the important part of the story. I don't inherently lack rational thought. It was there nagging at me the whole time. with that said, because I have a lot of experiences like this which usually include human witnesses (who saw/heard/felt the same things) I tend to lean more towards "yeah, these things are real" which makes me come off as a lunatic quite often, yes lol.
Idk about this disorder. Listening to this feels really uncomfortable.There are many many people in the world (because of their beliefs) that could be considered to be 'schizotypal'. If Doctor Ramani is of Indian decent (and Hindu?) I would ask her what she would have to say about the Hindu faith when comparing it to this disorder. Psychologists feel uncomfortable in their own skin and struggle with establishing themselves as 'real scientists', so they constructed this to explain away anything that isn't within cultural norms. I think this diagnosis is dangerous, frankly, it asks people to become something they're not and give away their beliefs and adapt to exactly what? I'd like for her to actually give her list of what 'cultural norms' are.
She reiterates over and over in the video that the cultural context the individual is embedded in matters when coming to a diagnosis. Cultural norms are not globally universal, they vary by culture. So, to use the exact example she gave in the video, someone believes that some arbitrary date, we'll say 3/4, is super unlucky and they need to take action to prevent some tragedy. That obviously isn't the same thing as someone mentioning it's Friday the 13th, a date that people in the U.S. will understand is culturally believed to be "unlucky". (It should be noted, someone getting extremely anxious or going out of their way to stop some vague tragedy on the 13th would still be experiencing unhealthy thinking and behaviors, despite the cultural norms) Another example is an American who believes in fairies. We do not have that as an established cultural belief, but in Ireland, it is. While fairies aren't real, the Irish person's belief is in-line with a cultural norm, and therefore by itself isn't suggestive of a personality disorder. This is the same reasoning by which we do not categorize spiritual or religious beliefs as disordered. You can also buy a book at any bookstore near you on sociology and what defines a cultural norm. You will feel more comfortable when you read more and have more context as to how the field of psychology develops diagnostic criteria.
Sorry but no, psychologists are not uncomfortabble in their own skins...we very clearly know ourselves because in our training as clinical.psychologists we are required to take the MMPI as part of a entire course on its administration and interpretation and write a self report...that instrument identifies personality disorders, it also uncovers general psychological functioning little quirks of perspnality. I for example found I am a somatizer....stress or any negative emotion affects my body to a greater degree than the norm ( I dont act out,,throw temper tamtrums, get depressed,project my problems onto to others. As a result in later life I developed first hyperthyroidism then hypothyrodism...I get high cortisol levels...they destroyed half my thyroid gland. I worked out,,sailed, did yoga LNOWING this about myself but it did not entirely control the cumulative cortisol damage ....I wasnt shocked when I developed this.
I had no psychological pathology. I and our professor is looking at everything we do first through a one way mirror live then taped sessions with clients/patients...our supervising psychologist takes our MMPI report and begins examining our personality nefore we ever are turned lose on anyome then we are obvsrved and finally listened to on tape throughout our clinical intership.. In good programs knowing YOURSELF as a therapist comes first before you are turned lose to practice on anyone else... So you are very far off the mark about how our traini g work and the patient safeguards. We DO have different personalities and are individuals but none of us in my program had any mental illness or personality disorder. If a person would be found to in training TO have psyvhological problems they would be referred to professional assistamce and would never be allowed to interact with any clients or patients whatsoever.
Contrary to popular assumptions DONT go into psychology to heal oursleves but to understamd mental processes and personalities in order to help others. Professor of clinical psychology since 1979
It happens that there is mouthful people who make others fall crazy sick and eventually are led to the doctor due to the stress. Society supports mouthful people, and victims pay the consequences of them.
Highly interesting, I think I have some of these signs.
I have pathologically poor boundaries and can wind up in lengthy conversations that I don't know how to graciously exit from. A goodly proportion of them, maybe 30% give or take, I would characterise as being with a person who demonstrates a few of these traits. I wonder if other quiet borderlines have had a similar experience to mine in this regard.
Not to make too light of it but I think Dale Gribble from King Of The Hill would probably fit 5 of the 9 traits for STPD.
I was thinking of him as well.
Started going a bit mental after being with someone that was suicidal, would send me songs to think of him. Drove me insane
I have definitely met one schizotypal person. I didn't know how to interact with him AT ALL
LOL I can’t be the only one who noticed the acronym for Schizotypal Personality Disorder (STPD) and read it as shorthand for the word “Stupid.” So I read the video’s title as, “Signs of Stupid,” and immediately thought, “Well I’ve already seen several signs of that in ME, so now I’m nervous.” 🤣
Can we talk about the treatment options for people with multiple illnesses. I have bipolar 2, OCD, Premenstrual Dysphoric disorder plus chronic fatigue and fybromyalgia.
How are people with multiple illness coup?
Look up GAPS.
Thank you so much for your work! Also, your website is amazingly helpful. I want to ask you make a video and explain the vibe, the life station of people who are desire to be alone for a lot. This is me! I can’t explain to myself or to others why do I need this time, but only when I am lonely I am in peace ( actually happy), and creative
Do all of these things really constitute a "disorder," or just a pattern of eccentricity?
I used to be along with someone that I think suffered from this condition. I did all that I can to help her but it was fruitless. Is there any way to actually intervene and make it them see their twisted behavior?
been diagnosed with this disorder 2 years ago and people who doesn't know often confuses me of having autism. i throw a tantrum everytime i can't find a top that would perfectly match the color or design of my pants, i feel paranoid everytime someone looks at me without telling me first the specific reason. i get upset when someone talks to me when i dont want to be talk too i also get irritated if they're talking for a long time. definitely not proud of having this but im not ashamed either
damn, I want to watch the next video right now. I thought this was an older video at first.
This stuff is pretty scary because I have this very very bad it concerns people and I have worried about my own delusions but dates, or surmised incidents, or tangible results like learning a new skill better than experienced persons and etc and even correlated incidents and even a prophetic dream from someone else and a huge answered prayer even to the exact location that I randomly had to return to first time in decades really happened pretty undeniably, but I do admit it all sometimes backfires and makes no sense
What about Hypersensitivity???
lol, i have had magical thoughts scince i was a kid, I think it was that scene in the matrix where the kid shows neo how to bend the spoon. With my adhd/ocd i got obsessed with attaining enlightenment so i could "change reality" so to speak. I ended up joining a cult and wasted money on courses and seminars. There's a whole subculture of people on this spectrum.
I think what helped me see things clearly for the first time was learning to lucid dream i had-
i basically got what i asked for, i could change reality, i did everything i wanted, for months on and off. I eventually learned that it doesn't matter if you think reality is real or and illusion, its what you choose to expirence, dream, create, interact with the world around you.
maybe your dreaming right now? really most people are so unaware...
Love the dog sleeping there....awwwwwww
Do you know of any resources for people who are related to someone with STPD? I’m 💯 sure my older brother has this disorder and growing up with him and dealing with him as an adult has been extremely difficult. I’ve considered breaking ties with him many times but I feel so sorry for him. He has said so many hurtful things to me over the years because he always interprets my words and behaviors as being malicious, when all I’ve ever wanted is to love and accept him. He is extremely eccentric, and no one understands him. He was bullied as a child and we both experienced emotional and physical abuse from our narcissistic father. I’ve been in therapy for years, and I do my best to not take his words and actions personally. It would be so helpful to connect with others who are close to someone with this disorder.
That "What are you looking at?" at 7:06
11:43 where can "the next session" be found?
1 year later & I still want to know the answer
On a more serious note, I'm seeing overlap here with autism such as eccentricity, social anxiety, and lack of close relationships. Do these diagnoses get mixed up?
with me they do get mixed up. in 2010 i got the diagnosis autism, and this year i did the test again and STPD came out.
@@ansjeliek when my oldest was tested for autism, they had me fill out a questiiaire. One of the questions asked if he was "eccentric." What exactly does that mean? Especially in a medical diagnose, it's such a nebulous and opinionated term.
@@keturahspencer true, with many autistic people you can’t see from the outside that they have autism
They do indeed.
It seems that schizotypals and autistics have similar things.
I have StPD and I fly in the face of alot of what was said here. I want to talk about what my experiences have been. I was told it never changes but apparently it DOES! A lot of these things still apply to me but at the same time they don't also. You should talk with somebody who has it in a public forum. I would do it. The DSM 5 is not the end all of end alls.
Intuition, a gut feeling and spiritual discernment, is real. It's in the quantum field. Difficult to put 3 dimensional words to what one senses in the 4th dimension. See Dr. Joe Dispenza's work, Malcom Gladwell's - Blink. For those who live from conscious awareness ( Buddhist monks, those who practice deep meditation ), there is no paranoia or suspicion. There is only listening and discernment.
Okay, intuition is a thing, but it's not a quantum field. It's an ordinary human faculty. It's just the unconscious mind picking up on information that you're not consciously aware of.
Great Session as Always. Thanks 🙏
Glad you found it valuable!
I feel like I have 1 and 4 & 5 sometimes BUT in my defense messed up trauma pushed me there!! Used to be completely different before years of psychopathic abuse 🤣
Ditto that.
7.5 Years of criminal Nazi, 'Narcopathic' ABUSES++ could put me, in the same CAT.!!!
And so do I. God bless you, Thesy.
@@lindajohnson4204 no longer Linda ;) the past is VERY clear now. So many Linda’s online right…very interesting :)
@@ThesySurface They are probably mostly baby boomers. When I was a child, the two most popular girls names were Linda and Debbie. So there are still a lot of us around! I run into them all the time.
No longer! Funny how when you’re far away from from psychopaths & narcissists you become HEALTHY!! 😎
Schizotypal Personality Disorder (STPD) has often been critiqued for its lack of diagnostic rigor, which stems from several factors:
1. **Overlap with Other Disorders**: STPD shares many symptoms with other personality disorders, particularly schizophrenia, schizoid personality disorder, and borderline personality disorder. This overlap can make it difficult to distinguish STPD from these other conditions, leading to diagnostic confusion.
2. **Subjectivity in Symptom Interpretation**: Many of the symptoms of STPD, such as odd beliefs, eccentric behavior, and unusual perceptual experiences, are subjective and open to interpretation. What one clinician may see as an eccentric personality trait, another might diagnose as a symptom of STPD.
3. **Cultural and Contextual Variability**: Cultural norms and context play a significant role in how behaviors and beliefs are perceived. In some cultures, beliefs considered "odd" in Western contexts might be normative, making the diagnosis of STPD highly dependent on cultural understanding and interpretation.
4. **Lack of Biological Markers**: Unlike some other psychiatric disorders, there are no clear biological markers or diagnostic tests for STPD. Diagnosis relies heavily on clinical interviews and self-reported experiences, which can vary widely in reliability and accuracy.
5. **Heterogeneity of Symptoms**: The symptoms of STPD can vary widely from person to person, leading to a heterogeneous group of individuals under the same diagnosis. This variability can make it difficult to apply a uniform diagnostic criterion and to develop standardized treatment approaches.
6. **Stigmatization and Misdiagnosis**: The eccentric and unusual behavior associated with STPD can lead to stigmatization, and in some cases, misdiagnosis. Individuals may be labeled with STPD when their behaviors are misunderstood or not properly contextualized.
These factors contribute to the ongoing debate within the psychiatric community about the diagnostic criteria for STPD and the need for more precise and culturally sensitive tools to accurately diagnose and treat individuals with this disorder.
My husband talks in circles when he doesn't want me to know about something. Like with our budget book. FOR YEARS, he would talk in circles because he doesn't want me to know ANYTHING about where the money goes. Because I don't bring money into the household, I'm not entitled to any money because I don't EARN it. I'm partially disabled, so I CAN'T work. He doesn't care. He thinks as long as I am doing something at HOME, I can still go to work. I can barely go from one room to another. So, how am I going to get a JOB when I can barely go from one room to another and have a hard time standing for long periods and walking??? So, he limits the money I can have. His mother had Schizophrenia and I think he has some form of it. He has an image to uphold, so everything HAS to be perfect for him. He has SOME "friends" that he talks to from school and a cousin that he talks to ON FACEBOOK, and he talks to his brother and we see him and his wife when they are home. But he really doesn't have any REAL friends that he can "hang out" with. He's kind of "friends" with people from church, but he doesn't "hang out" with the guys outside of church. He's pretty much a loner. He would rather spend his time in his recliner, on Facebook, DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!! But to mention that he should see a doctor about Schizophrenia, he will throw a tantrum. I am planning my "escape". I'm being really careful about how I will go about leaving. I am making sure I have everything that is MINE at my reach. And a friend of mine will come with her husband and help me move out while he is at work. I am SSSSSSSOOOOO looking forward to my day of FREEDOM!!!!!
Just checking on you.
So how's it going ?
Reminder that mental health is a spectrum that has phases within each person's life and is effected by each person's self care or habits
Dr ramani, idk if this makes you uncomfortable, idk how old you are(sorry for commenting on your age, I was raised better) I am 33 year old man, YOU ARE SUCH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN! and you dress with such class and elegance, and you're a genius, your husband must be a very happy man!
Your describing shamans perhaps and what is "too psychic "?
Great video. I can't help but notice the dog just relaxing there.
Can Schizotypal PD come up from: C-PTSD and severe longterm sleep deprivation and aLoneliness/isolation with unhelped and harassed Aspergers, HSP, and Borderline functioning?
Yes
ADHD;autism ;trauma can all present as many of the symptoms of schizo_"------" disorders from the inside (example : all information being given equal importance and hyper aware pattern recognition)
We need to know about overlaps and distinctions
This seems like people who would have been monks or pagan priests back in the day. More spiritually connected
I think that Autistic women might be getting misdiagnosed this more often than men. Autistic women ,especially if they have been sexually assaulted or abused, might develop a paranoia similar to schizotypal personality as well as agoraphobia that would lead to them becoming schizotypal.
exacrlt y…. literallt me
Are big similarities with Asperger syndrom or can it be combined?
When I got diagnosed with Autism, I saw that I also qualified for this disorder in my paperwork. However, I was not diagnosed with it. Why? Because you normally don’t diagnose the two together because they share too many traits. The autism throws off the test too much to justify a second disorder is what I understand. Of course I am sure it is up the clinician’s judgment as to if one shows characteristics that might justify both.
I met a schizotypal very peculiar the tendency to not flash the toilet repetition compulsion . Clearly instigating a confrontation drama . Traits of schizophrenia she will speak as if there was someone in her room ?
Always felt she has a manner of speech that sounds exaggerated but for the longest time I wasn't sure. Now I am.
I have *every one* of these traits, and I am lucky enough to have enough info about my ancestors to know which line brought it into my family. It’s definitely an inheritable thing.
I do the randomly break out laughing thing a lot. I've got a pretty vivid inner monolog and sometimes funny shit happens in my head. 🤣
Same my mom hates that 😅😂
The favourite diagnosis of post-Soviet psychiatrists.
Ok.. after watching few videos about mental illness I have till now: depression, ADHD and seems I have a schizotypal personality disorder.