:Love is the only cure for depression, paranoia and the schizotypies of post-Modern life.
FWIW the average person at age 19 is essentially has developed the characteristics of a paranoid-schizoid personality with symptoms of depression arising and falling according to his moods. He is also likely to be male, interested in women but not ready for a relationship, and on the average, spends too much time on his own in the privacy of his bedroom.
Thus, there is a likelihood that if he gives up on life, then he will cause himself the Hells of a psychoneurotic existence, alone, living inside his head and developing phobias as part of the mental defense mechanisms in a bid to remain paranoid, schizoid, and depressed.
Thus, it is actually the obligation of the average young female adult to find this lonely guy, and change his life. For a young woman is actually less likely to develop the symptoms of the average male. That comes much later after she makes a series of bad choices in the name of love, never distinguishing between idealistic love and the rampant lust that too many people mistake for true love.
Sadly though, most men and women are not like this at all. They may even have a boyfriend or girlfriend. They too are obligated to document their relationship history so that single men and women who are lonely do not give up on love.
Anyone who thinks they do not owe the lonely even a moment of their time because they think they are in love, but aren't willing to share their experience, will soon realize the errors of their way.
Note: I do not believe that medication is the "cure" for paranoid-schizoid personality disorders or for depression. Only love can truly relieve the anxieties of such an existence.
Definition:
Schizotypy: the typical path of a person based on his or her idiosyncrasies which may or may not develop into a personality disorder, specifically of a schizophrenia, due to his or her inability to cope and adapt to stress.
The cheapest way to uncover a schizotypy is to do the two-week basic training, and if you pass that test, then try out the pre-deployment advanced training. Finally, your experience in the combat zone of a nation at war will help you discover what it means "to be all that you can be."
Showing posts with label schizoid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label schizoid. Show all posts
20130522
20130103
How the Schizoid Becomes Schizophrenic
My understanding of schizoid is that it simply refers to a person who chose his world over the world at large.
IMO it's a defense mechanism that arises over time to protect the schizoid person from his own fear of the world.
For the schizoid world honors greatly the individual over society.
Medication would prevent such a person from adapting to social pressure and its influence on conforming to social norms.
As well, I feel that rather than an illness, any schizophrenia arising from maladaptation to stress to conform may consist of dysfunctional use of defense mechanisms.
Medication does nothing to help a person to become socialized. This is why it should be accompanied by psychotherapy and patience by the therapist.
I even consider the delusions arising within the comorbid psychosis that often accompanies schizophrenia to be maladaptation to stress arising from the many fears that the schizophrenic has.
While most of these fears are unfounded, schizophrenics prefer their delusions over reality since it is easier to accept them than to accept the fact that the world is not as safe as a caring family or its State-mandated equivalent.
For the schizophrenic has learned that the world is not a caring and friendly place.
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Schizotypy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizotypy
Schizoid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoid
Schizophrenia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia
Comorbidity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comorbidity
Defense mechanism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_mechanism
Socialization: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialization
Stress: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_%28psychological%29
IMO it's a defense mechanism that arises over time to protect the schizoid person from his own fear of the world.
For the schizoid world honors greatly the individual over society.
Medication would prevent such a person from adapting to social pressure and its influence on conforming to social norms.
As well, I feel that rather than an illness, any schizophrenia arising from maladaptation to stress to conform may consist of dysfunctional use of defense mechanisms.
Medication does nothing to help a person to become socialized. This is why it should be accompanied by psychotherapy and patience by the therapist.
I even consider the delusions arising within the comorbid psychosis that often accompanies schizophrenia to be maladaptation to stress arising from the many fears that the schizophrenic has.
While most of these fears are unfounded, schizophrenics prefer their delusions over reality since it is easier to accept them than to accept the fact that the world is not as safe as a caring family or its State-mandated equivalent.
For the schizophrenic has learned that the world is not a caring and friendly place.
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Schizotypy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizotypy
Schizoid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoid
Schizophrenia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia
Comorbidity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comorbidity
Defense mechanism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_mechanism
Socialization: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialization
Stress: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_%28psychological%29
20121016
Cyberbullying on Clubvibes
It's also cyber bullying when a popular online forum for club goers labels the woman who has a psychotic episode because of unconscious elektra complex transfered to an imagined love interest who'd spurned her for being too pure.
I don't know what her anxiety attacks and paranoia over imagined stalkers are called, but schizophrenia comes to mind.
the saddest form of bullying is of schizoid females who are unconsciously afraid of being intimate with a BF but are willing to show their boobs online.
Sad to see bullying is a pastime for problem drinkers with sociopathic meanness.
20100528
Rationalizing Society's Aversion to Religion
IMHO the real reason mundane people find religion and people devoted to their faiths to be suspect is straight-forward:
Mundane people, being of the mainstream, are consumers first. Being dedicated to consumption and production in a free capitalist culture, they work as occupation, depending on their personality and skill-set.
However, public education has inculcated them with a shallow respect for religion. This facade of respect for religion has left them subconsciously fearful of spirituality out of manufactured ignorance. Indeed, public education provides their intellect with academic learning.
However, it does not nurture their spirit with a deeper respect for religion due to universal human rights to worship as each individual choses (or not).
Being spiritually shallow, mundane people tend to develop neuroses rooted in a sense of emptiness, which may lead to depression in late childhood.
Because they did not gain nurturing of their sense of spirituality - and a deeper respect of it - during their youth, most people will develop neuroses arising from unresolved childhood issues regarding the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions of child development of their psyches.
Consequently, their vague feeling of emptiness is actually due to lack of spiritual nurturance, which the public education system no longer inculcates in children.
This is why adolescence is more of a hell than two generations ago. It is specifically because of their ignorance that they are spiritual beings incarnated as human beings which causes behavioral and mental negativities (neuroses, psychoses and the related phobias and personality disorders).
Why then does a person who is religious still suffer from neuroses and psychoses? Because they have yet to realize that suffering is where one does one's spiritual work, and applies one's defense mechanisms appropriately as mind tools so as to use the mud of human suffering to fertilize their heart-mind.
Thus, it is the responsibility of each individual to realize that their reason for living (raison d'etre) is to realized that each living being is first a spiritual being incarnated as animal, plant or human; and that each of us are obliged to be of service to others, and as a result of this service, to help others to see this basic truth of life.
Animals realize this through instinct, so they do not require instruction and inculcations like humans do, due to the latter's higher brain development. Yet, humans have inherited an animal nature, which is symbolized by the libido.
Knowing this, the spiritually awakened person realizes that this knowledge will set her free, provided that she balances her libido with rational thought.
Reason is used as a mind tool to control libido's psychic manifestation as "the ego" i.e. the delusion that the self is permanent and reincarnates, which is known as the product of reification of self - the soul.
In conclusion, mundane people, being the majority, are averse to religion but not to spirituality, yet consider their spiritual beliefs to be private and practice in their own way, be it through worship of science, consumerism or even, a particular faith (ranging from animism to Zoroasterism).
20100526
Normalizing Depression and Paranoid-Schizoid Behavior: Notes on Melanie Klein's Theory of Childhood Development
This note is about a "psychobabble" term which is used in everyday language on the street i.e. mainstream use. This term is "paranoid-schizoid".
"Psychobabble" is slang used to describe jargon used by the medical profession to describe behavior and mental conditions, according to a committee-approved manual called DSM-IV.
Within context of this note, first mainstream use of "paranoid-schizoid" will be briefly discussed. It will then be followed by introduction of the term in M. Klein's theory of child development.
Paranoid-Schizoid in Everyday Language
"Paranoid-schizoid" is rarely used in everyday language in its positive sense. Instead it is used to label other people for their eccentricities.
Usually, the term is used when people run out of emotionally charged words such as "crazy" and "weird" to separate people into "good" and "bad" categories, according to social norms.
While most people may be able to define "paranoid" accurately, as paranoia and suspicion out of proportion to a given situation, the term "schizoid" is equated to "crazy" and/or "weird", and falsely associated with schizophrenia.
It is not the purpose of this note to define schizophrenia. However, the term "paranoid-schizoid" is used as a description of a particular form of schizophrenia. Within context of this form of schizophrenia, paranoia and a tendency to be alone appear to be two common traits.
Overall, the term "paranoid-schizoid" is used to describe abnormal behavior with the context of mental health.
Paranoid-Schizoid in Child Development
M Klein uses two terms in her description of early childhood development, "paranoid-schizoid" and "depressive" within context of the term "position", which is defined as "a set of psychic functions that correspond to a given phase of development, always appearing during the first year of life, but which are present at all times thereafter and can be reactivated at any time."
Within context of Klein's description, the word "development" is a generalized term consisting of infantile psychic life i.e. development of the mind of a child during the first year of life.
During the first year of life, a child first begins and completes the paranoid-schizoid position of development. If her environment and up-bringing meet her requirements, then she passes through the depressive position.
Within context of the state of mind of children, the paranoid-schizoid position develops from birth to 4-6 months of age. Between 4-6 months of age, the child develops the depressive position. However, it is normal to move between the two positions though most children's minds will operate in the paranoid-schizoid position.
Klein developed the Object Relations Theory to hypothesize how children view objects in relationship to themselves, mainly as part objects in early childhood.
Within context of childhood development, paranoid refers to the central paranoid anxiety which is defined as "the fear of invasive malevolence". Schizoid refers to the central defense mechanism, splitting, "the vigilant separation of the good object from the bad object."
In healthy childhood development, the child splits its external world, its objects and itself into two categories: good and bad". By doing so, he incorporates attitudes or ideas learned about these two categories into his personality unconsciously, and identifies with the good.
Good consists of love, loving and gratification; bad consists of hate, persecution and frustration.
In this way, splitting is used by the child to protect the good from being destroyed by the bad.
With growing maturity, the child will experience her mother as pleasant and beneficial.
Through maturation, the paranoid-schizoid position is replaced by the depressive position in the child's mind as he becomes more able to tolerate frustration and hold onto the good object for increasing periods.
Thus enabled to accept his bad impulses without fear that these impulses will destroy it, a more reasonable view of the self and object as possessing both good and bad attributes, leads to the greater integration and maturity of the depressive position.
"Depressive and paranoid-schizoid modes of experience continue to intermingle throughout the first few years of childhood."
Commentary on the Term Paranoid-Schizoid Within The Medical Context
With respect to children, these two positions of child development are not psychiatric conditions. Both "paranoid-schizoid" and "depressive" refer to states of mind in normal childhood development. Thus, they are not medical conditions in need of fixing.
Even when paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions may be used by the child in later years in reaction to stress both within the family (i.e. sibling rivalry, misbehavior, etc) and outside the family, they are mind tools being used by the child to defend her psyche.
Rather than using medication to treat fears and anxieties, it would be more beneficial for parents to model adaptive coping strategies for the child to give her more ways of dealing with anxiety and fear.
References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoid-schizoid_position http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_relations_theory#Paranoid-schizoid_position http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_relations_theory#Depressive_position http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Relations_Theory Analysis of Kelly Jacobson's The Origin of Mouthstones: http://excavatingalfred.blogspot.com/2009/12/object-relations-every-person-has.html
"Psychobabble" is slang used to describe jargon used by the medical profession to describe behavior and mental conditions, according to a committee-approved manual called DSM-IV.
Within context of this note, first mainstream use of "paranoid-schizoid" will be briefly discussed. It will then be followed by introduction of the term in M. Klein's theory of child development.
Paranoid-Schizoid in Everyday Language
"Paranoid-schizoid" is rarely used in everyday language in its positive sense. Instead it is used to label other people for their eccentricities.
Usually, the term is used when people run out of emotionally charged words such as "crazy" and "weird" to separate people into "good" and "bad" categories, according to social norms.
While most people may be able to define "paranoid" accurately, as paranoia and suspicion out of proportion to a given situation, the term "schizoid" is equated to "crazy" and/or "weird", and falsely associated with schizophrenia.
It is not the purpose of this note to define schizophrenia. However, the term "paranoid-schizoid" is used as a description of a particular form of schizophrenia. Within context of this form of schizophrenia, paranoia and a tendency to be alone appear to be two common traits.
Overall, the term "paranoid-schizoid" is used to describe abnormal behavior with the context of mental health.
Paranoid-Schizoid in Child Development
M Klein uses two terms in her description of early childhood development, "paranoid-schizoid" and "depressive" within context of the term "position", which is defined as "a set of psychic functions that correspond to a given phase of development, always appearing during the first year of life, but which are present at all times thereafter and can be reactivated at any time."
Within context of Klein's description, the word "development" is a generalized term consisting of infantile psychic life i.e. development of the mind of a child during the first year of life.
During the first year of life, a child first begins and completes the paranoid-schizoid position of development. If her environment and up-bringing meet her requirements, then she passes through the depressive position.
Within context of the state of mind of children, the paranoid-schizoid position develops from birth to 4-6 months of age. Between 4-6 months of age, the child develops the depressive position. However, it is normal to move between the two positions though most children's minds will operate in the paranoid-schizoid position.
Klein developed the Object Relations Theory to hypothesize how children view objects in relationship to themselves, mainly as part objects in early childhood.
Within context of childhood development, paranoid refers to the central paranoid anxiety which is defined as "the fear of invasive malevolence". Schizoid refers to the central defense mechanism, splitting, "the vigilant separation of the good object from the bad object."
In healthy childhood development, the child splits its external world, its objects and itself into two categories: good and bad". By doing so, he incorporates attitudes or ideas learned about these two categories into his personality unconsciously, and identifies with the good.
Good consists of love, loving and gratification; bad consists of hate, persecution and frustration.
In this way, splitting is used by the child to protect the good from being destroyed by the bad.
With growing maturity, the child will experience her mother as pleasant and beneficial.
Through maturation, the paranoid-schizoid position is replaced by the depressive position in the child's mind as he becomes more able to tolerate frustration and hold onto the good object for increasing periods.
Thus enabled to accept his bad impulses without fear that these impulses will destroy it, a more reasonable view of the self and object as possessing both good and bad attributes, leads to the greater integration and maturity of the depressive position.
"Depressive and paranoid-schizoid modes of experience continue to intermingle throughout the first few years of childhood."
Commentary on the Term Paranoid-Schizoid Within The Medical Context
With respect to children, these two positions of child development are not psychiatric conditions. Both "paranoid-schizoid" and "depressive" refer to states of mind in normal childhood development. Thus, they are not medical conditions in need of fixing.
Even when paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions may be used by the child in later years in reaction to stress both within the family (i.e. sibling rivalry, misbehavior, etc) and outside the family, they are mind tools being used by the child to defend her psyche.
Rather than using medication to treat fears and anxieties, it would be more beneficial for parents to model adaptive coping strategies for the child to give her more ways of dealing with anxiety and fear.
References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoid-schizoid_position http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_relations_theory#Paranoid-schizoid_position http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_relations_theory#Depressive_position http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Relations_Theory Analysis of Kelly Jacobson's The Origin of Mouthstones: http://excavatingalfred.blogspot.com/2009/12/object-relations-every-person-has.html
20070911
Am I Schizoid? Or Is This BPD?
September 11, 2007: Here is an example of a person with schizotypal or schizo-affective syndrome. I do not consider his behavior odd because he has been like that for the 15 years I've known him.
He is worse when he is around his older sister; who behaves similarly but with a tendency to interpret deep emotional upset as due to external spiritual influence and an artistic interpretation of her own personal spiritual development, where she referred to abstract art she did as 'angels'.
Earlier, the family experienced trauma consisting of death of younger brother and death of father.
A couple days ago, I visited my friend and he only spoke to me twice out of the whole six hours I was there.
While we did not discuss greys or Zeta Reticuli, being the topic of an earlier discussion a year ago, apart from me bringing it up, he just expressed a strong belief in Jesus for about two minutes and returned to his room.
IMHO I doubt if he is schizophrenic; it appears to be either schizotypal or schizo-affective, whichever one has a love for nature and solitude.
However, his behavior is no different from 15 years ago, except that he spends more time reading the Bible.
He is less fanatical though, because he knows of my Buddhist background. This implies that he is compassionate and cares about my feelings as much as I care about his feelings.
Now if he'd only get out more and socialize...
Perhaps my friend actually appears to have Kretschmer's syndrome.
It consists of the following triad of symptoms:
(1) unsociability, quietness, reservedness, seriousness, and eccentricity;
(2) timidity, shyness with feelings, sensitivity, nervousness, excitability, and fondness of nature and books, and
(3) pliability, kindliness, honesty, indifference, silence, and cold emotional attitudes.
If he is schizoid, then my friend is exhibiting neither schizophrenic nor schizo-affective nor schizotypal behavior. Rather he exhibits Kretschmer's triad of symptoms and might be typically schizoid, without any ongoing psychosis -- apart from the only recent occurance of a brief psychotic episode in 2004.
In my own case, I share the quality of "fondness of nature and books" but am sociable, open with my feelings, and have warm emotional attitude. If anything, I admit to being mildly schizoid under stress, but feel that overall I am mildly depressed due to the recent deaths of my father and a close friend.
However, I feel that I do not exhibit any of the behavior associated with my original diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, even when under mild stress.
In different ways, I may exhibit the triad of behavior associated with schizoid syndrome similar to my friend. However, my parents' marital stability has not added trauma to my life.
I feel this is because the traumatic loss in my family happened to me in adulthood, while in the case of my friend, it occurred in childhood (loss of brother) and adolescence (loss of father and breakup of relationship between parents).
Thus I challenge the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. For I feel that I am relearning the skills necessary to control the negative aspects of the BPD, especially risk of suicide, and to accentuate its positive aspects, especially extroversion and willingness to take risks.
As well, it is becoming less difficult to control the comorbid disorder of depression. I have adapted to the mild hypomania that exhibits as insomnia by using the time while awake to express myself on this blog.
As for my friend I do not know of his own creative efforts. While I wish he would participate more often online, his anxiety about exposing his inner thoughts to public scrutiny may moderate any desire to be more friendly and outgoing.
However, the only way this is to come about is to accept his unsociability as a constant that has been there since I first met him over 15 years ago.
All this does for me is to become less schizoid, if such a thing is possible.
Perhaps I have borderline personality disorder. Being abandoned in the hospital at age 5 would have deeply affected me at the time, but it made me fiercely independent to the point of near unsociability.
Hopefully I am not over-analyzing myself in this entry.
He is worse when he is around his older sister; who behaves similarly but with a tendency to interpret deep emotional upset as due to external spiritual influence and an artistic interpretation of her own personal spiritual development, where she referred to abstract art she did as 'angels'.
Earlier, the family experienced trauma consisting of death of younger brother and death of father.
A couple days ago, I visited my friend and he only spoke to me twice out of the whole six hours I was there.
While we did not discuss greys or Zeta Reticuli, being the topic of an earlier discussion a year ago, apart from me bringing it up, he just expressed a strong belief in Jesus for about two minutes and returned to his room.
IMHO I doubt if he is schizophrenic; it appears to be either schizotypal or schizo-affective, whichever one has a love for nature and solitude.
However, his behavior is no different from 15 years ago, except that he spends more time reading the Bible.
He is less fanatical though, because he knows of my Buddhist background. This implies that he is compassionate and cares about my feelings as much as I care about his feelings.
Now if he'd only get out more and socialize...
Perhaps my friend actually appears to have Kretschmer's syndrome.
It consists of the following triad of symptoms:
(1) unsociability, quietness, reservedness, seriousness, and eccentricity;
(2) timidity, shyness with feelings, sensitivity, nervousness, excitability, and fondness of nature and books, and
(3) pliability, kindliness, honesty, indifference, silence, and cold emotional attitudes.
If he is schizoid, then my friend is exhibiting neither schizophrenic nor schizo-affective nor schizotypal behavior. Rather he exhibits Kretschmer's triad of symptoms and might be typically schizoid, without any ongoing psychosis -- apart from the only recent occurance of a brief psychotic episode in 2004.
In my own case, I share the quality of "fondness of nature and books" but am sociable, open with my feelings, and have warm emotional attitude. If anything, I admit to being mildly schizoid under stress, but feel that overall I am mildly depressed due to the recent deaths of my father and a close friend.
However, I feel that I do not exhibit any of the behavior associated with my original diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, even when under mild stress.
In different ways, I may exhibit the triad of behavior associated with schizoid syndrome similar to my friend. However, my parents' marital stability has not added trauma to my life.
I feel this is because the traumatic loss in my family happened to me in adulthood, while in the case of my friend, it occurred in childhood (loss of brother) and adolescence (loss of father and breakup of relationship between parents).
Thus I challenge the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. For I feel that I am relearning the skills necessary to control the negative aspects of the BPD, especially risk of suicide, and to accentuate its positive aspects, especially extroversion and willingness to take risks.
As well, it is becoming less difficult to control the comorbid disorder of depression. I have adapted to the mild hypomania that exhibits as insomnia by using the time while awake to express myself on this blog.
As for my friend I do not know of his own creative efforts. While I wish he would participate more often online, his anxiety about exposing his inner thoughts to public scrutiny may moderate any desire to be more friendly and outgoing.
However, the only way this is to come about is to accept his unsociability as a constant that has been there since I first met him over 15 years ago.
All this does for me is to become less schizoid, if such a thing is possible.
Perhaps I have borderline personality disorder. Being abandoned in the hospital at age 5 would have deeply affected me at the time, but it made me fiercely independent to the point of near unsociability.
Hopefully I am not over-analyzing myself in this entry.
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