Schizotypal personality disorder
“Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development, compared to children whose parents use authoritarian methods and punishment.”
― Simon Baron-Cohen, Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Schizotypal personality disorder is a psychological disorder in which you have social anxiety, thought disorder, paranoid ideation, derealization, transient psychosis and often unconventional believes. As we know that it is a psychological problem so it can be treated with the help of psychotherapy. The patient of schizotypal personality disorder doesn’t know how to make strong relationships and what are the impacts of the relationships in a person’s life.
Causes of Schizotypal Personality Disorder
There are some most common causes which specialists consider are the causes of schizotypal disorders. They are the following:
- Environmental factors
- Family history
- Changes in brain functions
- Learned behaviors from others which we called modelling
What are the Symptoms of Schizotypal Personality Disorder?
You can identify that a person has schizotypal personality or not if you have an idea how such people really are or how they act. Following are the symptoms of schizotypal personality disorder which we discussed here:
- Being alone
- Have no any friend
- Excessive social anxiety
- Lack of emotions and inappropriate emotions
- Wrong interpretation of events
- Doubts about other loyalty
- Superstitious behaviors
- Unusual perceptions such as having illusions
- Odd dressing
- Speech problems
Risk Factors of Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Some factors contribute in the development of Schizotypal personality disorder. They make you more vulnerable to it as compared to other people. Following are some of the most observed risk factors of schizotypal personality disorder:
- If you have a family history of personality disorder
- Due to some changes in brain functions leads to schizotypal personality disorder
Some environmental factors also involve
Common Complications
One thing that is very devastating about schizotypal personality disorder is that it may come along with other mental health problems. When other mental health problems accompany it, the client faces a lot of complications. Following are the common complications you may face if you are having a schizotypal personality disorder:
- Stress
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Other personality disorders
- Try to suicide
- Drug and alcohol abuse
- Relationship problems
- Financial problems
Diagnoses of Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Personality disorders are mostly easy to diagnose because the particular indicators are very prominent in a person’s behavior and belief system. Following are the methodologies and techniques used by the doctors or psychiatrist are:
- Physical examination
- Psychiatric evaluation
- Asking about the symptoms you have experience
- Diagnostic criteria from DSM-5
How Doctors Treat Schizotypal Personality Disorders?
Doctors can treat this type of psychological problems by the following methods and techniques which we discussed here:
- Medications
- Psychotherapy
- Family therapy
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy
- Supportive therapy
For most of the personality disorders 100% treatment is not possible and therefore different psychological interventions provide management and support to the client.