Contents:
- What is a schizotypal disorder?
- Causes of schizotypal disorders
- Symptoms of schizotypal personality disorder
- How can schizotypal be recognized?
- What is the difference between schizotipal and schizophernia?
- Treatment of schizotypal disorders
Life in the digital age is increasingly sophisticated, ironically there are still many people who still believe in things that are magical and mystical. For example, go to the pesugihan place to get a lottery number or ask for offspring. But did you know that believing in things that are mystical, so difficult to relate to and interact with others, can be a symptom of a mental disorder called schizotypal disorder? Why is that?
What is a schizotypal disorder?
Personality determines how someone interacts with other people, because personality determines how you think about yourself and the environment.
Schizotipal disorder is a personality disorder that causes a person having difficulty establishing close relationships with other people because they feel very uncomfortable to interact. In addition, someone with this disorder has abnormal ways of thinking so that they have behaviors that tend to be eccentric.
People who experience this disorder often have the wrong thoughts due to understanding about the wrong everyday events, even though these events are common for others. They are very superstitious and have their own thoughts about things even though they are not natural or deviate from the social norms of the surrounding environment.
The "nyeleneh" mindset often causes anxiety and depression for sufferers. As a result, the treatment is only focused on symptoms of depression and anxiety disorders without overcoming the symptoms of personality disorders that they experience.
Causes of schizotypal disorders
Many things are thought to be the cause of schizotypal disorders. One theory states that the emergence of this disorder is the result of interactions of hereditary, social, and psychological factors.
Schizotypal disorders are likely to originate from inherited traits, but social roles such as child care and social interactions, temperament factors, and how they solve problems can also affect the development of personality disorders.
Symptoms of schizotypal personality disorder
In general, the schizotypal personality disorder causes a very minimal pattern of social and interpersonal abilities due to an unnatural mindset. This disorder is also accompanied by feeling uncomfortable interacting and not having the ability to undergo close relationships.
However, more specifically the symptoms experienced by people with this disorder are more varied. This includes:
- Having a strong belief in magical, mystical, occult, occult things, even though they contradict the norm
- Often illusions about supernatural experiences, or unusual events
- Have an unnatural idea
- Have a way of talking and words that are not clear to others
- Often shows unnatural emotions
- Very uncomfortable with social situations
- Too paranoid about certain things
- Has an unusual or eccentric appearance
- Very few have close friends or confidants other than close family
- Experience social anxiety and paranoid feelings to interact with someone even though they have known for a long time.
How can schizotypal be recognized?
A person can only be declared to have schizotypal disorder when he has grown up. Because, personality disorders can only be formed for a long time. Individuals at the age of children and adolescents each experience changes and personality maturation continuously. Symptoms of schizotypal disorders can increase to adulthood and then decline in late adulthood before entering the age of the elderly or around 40-50 years.
The diagnosis made by psychiatric professionals may involve symptoms and previous behavioral patterns in someone suspected of having a schizotypal personality disorder. Determination of the diagnosis in individuals before entering adulthood can be done when symptoms of this disorder already exist and persist for at least one year. In addition, early detection of this disorder is based on a family history of those who have schizophrenia.
What is the difference between schizotipal and schizophernia?
Schizotipal personality disorder is often misinterpreted as a serious mental disorder of schizophrenia. Both can trigger symptoms of psychosis which make it difficult for someone to tell the truth and the only hallucinations / imagination.
However, the frequency and intensity of hallucinatory and delusional episodes in the symptoms of schizotypal personality disorder are generally lighter than those in schizophernia. Generally, a person with schizotypal disorder is still more or less aware of the difference between reality and thought, but people with schizophrenia will find it very difficult to deal with the symptoms of delusions they experience. They generally cannot distinguish between real and illusory nature.
Although both are different but the treatment of schizophernia can have a positive effect on the sensory effect of schizotypal disorders.
Treatment of schizotypal disorders
Appropriate treatment is very necessary for people with personality disorders schizotypal because if it is not handled there is a chance of serious decline in social and occupational abilities. Comprehensive treatment such as psychiatric therapy and drug consumption is needed to form new thought patterns and behaviors and relieve symptoms of schizotypal disorders. But the possibility of this needs to be done for a long time.
