What is schizotypal disorder and what arehis symptoms, few know. This is a weakly expressed psychotic deviation of the personality, characterized by the quaintness of the cognitive sphere of perception. In modern psychotherapy, this condition is considered to be borderline, because to determine a full-fledged diagnosis of schizophrenia lacks the necessary symptoms or they are not sufficiently expressed. Many scientists in the CIS consider it a sluggish schizophrenia.
The schizotypal disorder is different from the socialisolation, unusual behavior and inadequate emotions of the patient. Moreover, cognitive transformations are distorted to a greater extent than with other psychiatric disorders. They can be classified into 4 types:
- Excessive suspicion and paranoid ideas;
- the person suffering from this disease is absolutely sure that it has a direct relation to events that are in fact not connected in any way;
- the patient has prejudiced thoughts about the supernatural. For example, a person can be convinced that next to him is the deceased, and some others are aliens;
- the tendency to excessive illusions prevails. A person with such a disorder can see faces and silhouettes among the shadows or the picture of the curtains.
Behavior of the patient
The schizotypal disorder gives the patientthe strangeness of his speech. Man's thoughts are completely consistent and there are no random associations in them, but he constantly deviates from the topic, is excessively scrupulous and circumstantial. Quite often hypersensitivity to individual stimuli appears along with emotional coldness to others. A person behaves inadequately, constantly distracted from a given topic. He can spend hours in order in the closet and find new jobs for himself. This state leads to complete social isolation. Schizotypics avoid communication in every way because of constant anxiety, uncertainty, anticipation of troubles and negative forebodings.
Treatment
The schizotypal disorder can be temporaryand be a consequence of the transferred stress, but the propensity of the individual to develop such a scenario is dominant. To treat these conditions, small doses of neuroleptic drugs such as haloperidol and tranquilizers like diazepam are shown. With severe depression, prescribe antidepressants, for example, amitriptyline. Group and individual psychotherapy is shown to accelerate social adaptation.
Mental disorders, their manifestations
The symptoms of mental disorders are individual.every single person. Over time, they may change or become more pronounced. The main signs of mental disorders include hallucinations, mania and delirium.
Hallucinations are sensory perceptions of non-existent things. The patient can hear, see, feel the touch and taste, feel the smells of what is not really.
Delusions and mania are well-established false notions that do not disappear even with their apparent inconsistency with real events.
To the secondary symptoms of mentalDisorders include incoherent speech, loss of interest in activities, blurred thinking, strange movements, unusual behavior, problematic relationships, mood swings and an unusual expression of emotions.
Schizophrenia and its definition
Common mental illnesscharacterized by a variety of manifestations and having a tendency to chronic progression, is called schizophrenia. What this disease is is a mystery for psychotherapists for many years. Schizophrenia reflects the polymorphic disorders of the psyche caused by the collapse of emotional reactions and thought processes. It is characterized by fundamental disorders of perception and thinking, as well as inadequate affect. The most common manifestations of this disease include hallucinations, paranoid delusions with fantastic ideas, disorganization of thoughts and behavior with severe social dysfunction. Schizophrenia combines multiple mental disorders and is an extremely severe, progressive mental illness.
