Anytime a post about schizoid personality disorder goes viral, there's always these reactions—that either it shouldn't be considered a real disorder, a selection of people self diagnosing based on the vague criteria, and egotistical people who consider this a "beneficial" thing to have.
All of them fail to understand what this disorder actually is.
It's often used as evidence that the psych field is hell-bent on creating conformity. Because mainstream information on schizoid PD is not as in-depth as it should be, people fail to realize the ways in which this disorder causes dysfunction and where it comes from.
The baseline symptoms themselves, people cannot tell them apart from avoidance, introversion, and social anxiety, which is what it's belittled to in order to discount this experience as a diagnosis. In keeping with how it's so often that people consider these issues when they present dysfunctionally to be attributed solely to autism.
Essentially: if you're experiencing these symptoms and living "normally", this disorder isn't real, or if you're dysfunctional, you're autistic.
There's a spectrum of which this disorder is viewed by the uninformed and none of them actually manage to take it seriously.
Schizoid personality disorder is a personality disorder belonging to Cluster A, odd and eccentric disorders on the schizophrenia spectrum. It's characterized by a need for isolation, limited emotional expression, maladaptive daydreaming, and social indifference. Schizoid PD is often a result of long-standing childhood trauma typically involving intrusive or abusive experiences from parents or similar caregivers. Individuals may experience an intense need for safety, reject relationships to avoid engulfment, avoid confrontation, experience dissociative episodes and depersonalization, leading to not feeling human, and engage primarily in independent activities and careers.
There's more that I didn't mention here, but with that definition, it's clear that this isn't an "introvert disorder", correct? It's clear that this isn't the psych world attempting to pathologize non conformity, correct? It's clear that this is very distinct from autism, correct?
Part of why I chose to post about my experience with the disorder is to expand some public knowledge on what it's like to have it, not just in the context of objective studies and diagnostic lists. People fail to comprehend what it's like to live a life where your existence is null and void, even if you try to explain it. They fail to take it seriously.
So you can see why posts like these frustrate me so much.
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