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The disorder esquizotípico of the personality is characterized by a boss of social and interpersonal shortfalls in the subject who endures it, characterized by a sharp discomfort and a capacity reduced for the personal relations, as well as for cognitive and perceptive distortions and eccentricities of the behavior. This boss begins at the beginning of the adult age and is observed in diverse contexts.
HOW IS IT EVIDENT?
There exist nine criteria that characterize the personality esquizotípica, of which five will have to be fulfilled at least so that the disorder could be diagnosed. There are the following ones:
- Ideas of reference, excluded the delirious ideas of reference (ideas of reference are for example incorrect interpretations of chance incidents as if they were especially excellent for the subject)
- Rare beliefs or magic thought that influences the behavior and is not consistent with the norms of the culture to which there belongs the subject (for example, superstition, telepathy, strange fantasies, etc.)
- Unusual perceptive experiences, included the corporal illusions (they can feel that they have special magic powers on the others, etc.)
- Rare thought and language (for example vague, metaphorical, stereotyped; too concrete or too abstract answers, etc.)
- Suspicion or paranoid conception (for example, to think that his coworkers are trying to discredit him before his chief)
- Inappropriate or restricted affectivity (they are not usually capable of exhibiting the whole affections fan, which supposes a big difficulty to them at the time of being related to the others)
- Behavior or rare, eccentric or peculiar appearance (coarse way of dressing, is missing of attention to the habitual social conventions, etc.)
- Lacking in intimate friends or suspicion apart from the relatives of the first grade (the esquizotípicos are not usually comfortable being related to other persons)
- Excessive social anxiety that does not diminish with the familiarización and that tends to collaborate with the paranoid fears more than with the negative judgments on one himself (they usually feel anxious in social situations, especially in those who imply the unknown people)
In addition to fulfilling at least five criteria, as we have already indicated, to be able to realize the disorder diagnosis esquizotípico, it is necessary to verify that these characteristics do not appear exclusively in the course of a schizophrenia not in that of any psychotic disorder, but of form continued in the life of the subject.
HOW ARE THESE SUBJECTS?
In the everyday life, the individuals with this disorder usually look for treatment for the associate symptoms of anxiety, depression or other shaken frames of mind, more than for the personality disorder in itself. Also, they can experience transitory psychotic episodes, especially in answer to stressful situations. Another characteristic is that approximately half of the subjects esquizotípicos are diagnosed in addition to major depressive disorder when they are assisted in a clinical center. Finally, this disorder can present itself simultaneously with other personality disorders as the schizoid, the paranoid one, for avoidance and limit.
PREDOMINANCE
As for the predominance, the disorder esquizotípico is observed approximately in 3 % of the general population, being a little more frequent in males than in women. As for the course that continues the disorder, we can say that it is relatively stable along the life of the subject, and only one small number of subjects develops a schizophrenia or another psychotic disorder. Finally, as for the familiar boss, it has been demonstrated that the disorder esquizotípico happens more in individuals with affected relatives of the first grade of schizophrenia that in individuals with healthy relatives; also, also it has been observed that the esquizotípicos have more probability of having children with schizophrenia that the healthy persons. (according to the DSM-IV).
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