[Perseus]

The 'secret schizoid'

According to Ralph Klein[26] there are many fundamentally schizoid individuals who present with an engaging, interactive personality style which contradicts the timidity, reluctance, or avoidance of the external world and interpersonal relationships as emphasized by the DSM-IV and ICD-10 definitions of the schizoid personality. Klein classifies these individuals as secret schizoids[26] who present themselves as socially available, interested, engaged, and involved in interacting in the eyes of the observer, while at the same time, he or she is apart, emotionally withdrawn, and sequestered in a safe place in his or her own internal world. So, while withdrawnness or detachment from the outer world is a characteristic feature of schizoid pathology, it is sometimes overt and sometimes covert. While it is overt it matches the usual description of the schizoid personality offered in the DSM-IV. According to Klein, though, it is "just as often" a covert, hidden internal state of the patient in which what meets the objective eye may not be what is present in the subjective, internal world of the patient. Klein therefore cautions that one should not miss identifying the schizoid patient because one cannot see the patient’s withdrawnness through the patient’s defensive, compensatory, engaging interaction with external reality. Klein suggests that one need only ask the patient what his or her subjective experience is in order to detect the presence of the schizoid refusal of emotional intimacy.


Comment:


This is an ingenious TP at work making up complicated theories to explain someting basic and simple that the Secret NP has not found a home where he feels happy at.



Do you want to play around with the "common people" ?


































Stuck-up and aloof. What makes her think she is better than us. She needs a good hiding.












































She is hiding. Hiding in her internal world. Hiding from people like you!

[teflon]

Yeah, my mom made me go to therapy because she said I have "emotional issues" and my therapist tried to diagnose me with Schizoid Personality Disorder...
I asked her what the hell that meant and when she explained it to me, I said "Well now you people are just making up shit. You want to know the real 'disease?' Humanity is the fucking disease."
and then I walked out.

You know. I felt pretty good about myself after that incident.
Of course, my mom made me go back and apologize for being so disrespectful.
If you ask me, it's disrespectful to make up disorders and try to tell perfectly normal people that something is wrong with them.
I thought it only became a "disorder" when it interfered with your life...
My "emotional issues" and "lack of intimate relationships" has no bearing on my ability to get by in society when I have to.

[Kevinaswell]

Meh.

Lately I've just kinda been thinking that it's ridiculous there are like 2520487235927 ways to be fucked up in the head.....and somehow there aren't....any ways at all that have been established to just be "normal".

[PeacePassion]

Meh.

Lately I've just kinda been thinking that it's ridiculous there are like 2520487235927 ways to be fucked up in the head.....and somehow there aren't....any ways at all that have been established to just be "normal".

Guess that makes it normal to be fucked up in the head.