Schizoid and paranoid personality disorders have key differences. Paranoid personality disorder (PPD) leads people to think that others are trying to harm them, while schizoid personality disorder ...

Schizoid personality disorder can leave you so uncomfortable around others that you avoid all interaction. You might feel overwhelmed, disconnected, or numb when you have to talk to people at work or ...

My clients with schizoid personality disorder have experienced some combination of abuse, lack of attunement, neglect, and extreme intrusiveness in their early childhood. Many of them were also born ...

Schizophrenia involves periods of psychosis, with symptoms like delusions and hallucinations. Schizoid personality disorder is a persistent pattern of thoughts and behaviors that cause distress but ...

Schizoid personality disorder involves being detached and having little desire for close relationships. People with schizoid ...

April is Autism Awareness month. Awareness implies being able to recognize the condition, and recognizing a condition means it must be differentiated from others. Unfortunately, Autism-Spectrum ...

While people with schizoid personality disorder (SPD) and those with avoidant personality disorder (AvPD) both avoid social interaction, those with SPD do so due to disinterest, whereas in AvPD, it is ...

Genetics is just one of several factors thought to influence personality disorder development. Life experiences, family dynamics, coping mechanisms, and social learning may all be contributing factors ...