Schizotypic

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Schizotypal Personality Disorder is a "schizophrenia spectrum" disorder, a mental illness characterized by social isolation, unusual perceptions, and odd or eccentric behavior. The cognitive effects of this disorder are similar but less severe than Schizophrenia. It is somewhat common for SPD traits to appear in patients with OCD. As with Schizophrenia, SPD can be passed through genetic material, but studies also show that neglect or abuse in early childhood can trigger the development of schizotypal traits. Gender differences mention women being more prone to cognitive peculiarities, with men exhibiting more behavioral abnormalities and social withdrawal. Common symptoms of SPD include: - Inappropriate or blunted affect (exhibiting emotions inappropriate for a given situation, or the numbing of emotion) - Social withdrawal - Impulsive nonconformity (emotional instability, eccentricity or oddness in appearance, unconventionality in social situations) - Paranoia - Elaborate or disorganized speech - Unusual or "magical thinking" (hallucinations, delusions, the belief that a mundane occurrences hold certain significance or a signs specifically for the individual to find) Urban Dictionary

A personality disorder with a schizophrenic flavor. It differs from the similarly named "schizoid personality" in that schizotypes want to socialize but have social phobia, wheras schizoids are content to be alone. Also schizotypes have more strange symptoms than schizoids; for example Ideas of reference, magical thinking, bizarre fantasies or preoccupations. So in a way schizotypal is sort of like a mild version of Schizophrenia Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to schizotypic:
schizotypal, schizothymic.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective schizotypic:
signs, psychopathology, characteristics, individuals, personalities, subjects, tetrad, parent, anhedonia, personality, students, father, traits, configurations.

Words that sound like schizotypic:
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