Thinking about my Borderline Personality Disorder and Schizotypal Personality Disorder, I first noticed symptoms when I was 14 when I first got the BPD ‘favourite person’. It wasn’t too bad the first time it happened, but my mental state did worsen afterwards, including developing hallucinations. As far back as I can remember I’ve had symptoms,…
I recently moved from the Midlands to the South of the UK, and I wanted to share my story of how my mental health care has been a bit of a postcode lottery. My main diagnosis was mixed personality disorder. My secondary mental health care team was keen to assess me further with the belief…
Although I’ve never been formally diagnosed, I consider myself someone who would fit under the category of ‘schizotypy’. I don’t have much faith in the mental health system so I don’t seek out diagnosis, but I had schizo-spectrum signs very early on. As a younger kid, I had very magical/odd thoughts about who I was,…
My symptoms of Schizotypal Personality Disorder are mainly along the lines of magical thinking, strange ideas of reference, odd beliefs, perceptual disturbances, paranoid social anxiety and transient psychosis. Odd beliefs are probably my most prominent symptom. I got diagnosed when I was 19 due to a psychotic episode I had. My psychiatrist originally thought I…
I’ve been very interested in psychology for a long time, and want to be a psychologist when I’m older, and personality disorders are something I’ve done lots of research on. About three years ago I started reading about Cluster A, and STPD caught my eye. It just felt very relatable, but in a worrying way,…
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…