Posted by Dinah on August 10, 2002, at 9:39:40
In reply to schizotypal personality disorder, posted by Kari on August 10, 2002, at 7:19:53
My first two psychiatrists thought I was schizotypal (by input from my therapist, I assume). I think the reasons were blunted emotions, odd ways of expressing myself, and a family history of schizophrenia. The first psychiatrist made no attempt to treat it with medications. He just said it was the way I was, there was nothing that could be changed, and not to feel guilty for the symptoms because they weren't my fault.
The second pdoc (who had had my records transferred from the first) suggested atypical antipsychotics. But I was in the midst of a Wellbutrin induced hypomania when I saw him and fired him before we really talked about it. By the way, I'm so glad I fired him because he never recognized the hypomania, and my third pdoc put me on depakote immediately.
I didn't transfer my records to my third pdoc, who just thinks I'm a bit eccentric, not schizotypal. So I've never been treated medically for schizotypal personality disorder.
I think my therapist still thinks I have it. But I've come to think of myself as eccentric, with a lot of dissociative skills, and some Aspergerish traits. So I guess my diagnosis isn't by any means sure.
If you don't mind my asking, could you tell me more about your diagnosis and treatment? Since I'm still pretty sure my therapist still thinks I have schizotypal personality disorder, I always want to learn all I can. And the literature seems woefully inadequate. All it seems to do is repeat the DSM-IV criteria, without much in the way of examples. I even bought a big expensive textbook on it once, to find it was nothing but a lot of statitistics, no stories of what it was like at all.
Do you know of any good books on the subject?
Sorry to go on for so long, but it's not a subject that comes up very often. :)
Dinah
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