The schizoids are hermits who genuinely prefer solitude. They have a low level of social contacts, they work and rest alone, and if such people marry or have a long relationship, they can not at all devote themselves to a family or a partner.
Features of the disease
Characteristic signs of schizoid psychopathy are disharmony, paradoxicality, decreased emotionality and motor skills. Outwardly, they can be recognized by refined elegance or, conversely, by the negligence they make, and conversations with schizoids are always conducted on one note.
In contacts with people, patients with schizoid psychopathy exhibit dryness, formality, coldness, they can be cruel and egocentric.
Children
Symptoms of schizoid psychopathy can be discerned even in one-year-old child. Such children do not adapt well in the new conditions, they demonstrate a monotonous behavior, a decreased level of facial expressions. Speech development is delayed and bad motor skills are clearly observed.
The easiest way to recognize schizoid psychopathy in school-age children. If the personality disorder is moderate, such a child will have 1 -2 not close friends, with whom he will converge exclusively "on need." Such children may have an intellect an order of magnitude higher than their peers, but they are not sociable, they are difficult to give oral answers, participate in collective games.
In adolescents, schizoid disorder is aggravated by an already complicated period of life - puberty and the transformation of the psyche from a child into an adult. They are even more alienated, and this loneliness makes them suffer. Attempts to make friendships with nothing to the right
Schizoids do not know how to empathize, in time to remain silent or support - they missed this stage of social development. And this factor makes their communication with others even more difficult.
Treatment
Drug treatment of schizoid psychopathy is ineffective. Schizoids turn to doctors already in adulthood and usually not because of their propensity to "hermit", but because of the resulting diseases, most often, addictions.
With a psychologist, the schizoid will stay at a distance, and the most effective means can be group therapies, role-playing games, grafting emotions and social skills to the patient. However, among people, the schizoid feels "not at ease" and psychiatrists need to try to create the safest, non-irritating atmosphere.