Schizoid personality disorder has as main symptoms the low expressiveness of the emotions and the distancing of social relationships. People with a schizoid personality do not want to have intimate relationships or to form a family, preferring to engage in activities that are seldom pleasurable.
Individuals with schizoid personality disorder usually do not have close friends, approaching only their first-degree relatives.
Schizoid patients are cold, distant, and little open to affectivity, so they are also poorly affected when they are praised or criticized, giving little importance to what others think about him.
They do not want intimacy and are indifferent when opportunities arise in which they can develop intimate personal relationships. For these individuals, being part of a family or group does not seem to give them much satisfaction, which makes them indifferent to it.
The activities chosen by them are usually associated with computer games or mathematics. Sensory experiences such as sunbathing, hugging or having intimate contact with others are reduced or give little pleasure.
THE rage and the joy are not usually experienced by these individuals. They often have difficulty expressing anger, even when directly attacked or provoked.
However, there are times, though rare, in which these individuals may feel at ease in revealing their feelings.
These people's lives seem to have no meaning since they do not demonstrate goals or goals they want to achieve or achieve.
When adversity arises, the schizoid individual tends to respond passively, and has difficulty responding adequately when something important happens in his or her life.
In stress situations, the person with a schizoid personality may manifest psychotic crisis which can last from minutes to hours.
The psychiatrist is responsible for the diagnosis and guidance of the treatment of schizoid personality disorder.
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