I was diagnosed earlier this year with Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD). The diagnosis wasn’t a surprise when it was explained to me what it meant, although to be honest I’d not actually ever heard of it before. But when the psychiatrist went through the symptoms with me, it made a lot of sense. Ever…
I first began to notice that something wasn’t ‘right’ when I was in my first year of my PhD. It’s a research PhD, so often people have said it’s quite lonely, because everyone’s work is different, and basically you’re on your own with the research. At first I thought it’s just cold feet. Luckily the…
My biggest symptoms of Schizoid Personality DIsorder are depersonalisation and derealisation, apathy, anhedonia, passive chronic suicidality and flat affect/lack of emotions. Because of them I am just… indifferent. I don’t have any dreams, any goals, I don’t see a point. Nothing brings me joy or satisfaction. I don’t want to meet with people, actually not…
My symptoms of OCPD include fixations on lists, organization and schedules and other methods of controlling my environment. In my head, there’s only one way to do things, and it throws me off when people suggest doing things differently to the point where I will have a breakdown. I have a lot of trouble getting…
When people think of personality disorders, they tend to think of the ones we see in the media, like BPD or NPD- basically the Cluster B disorders. But the ones that I have are ones you’ve probably never heard of. The first is Schizotypal Personality Disorder (STPD) which is a Cluster A personality disorder, meaning…