By schizotypic personality disorder is understood a mental illness, which is attributed to a form of sluggish schizophrenia. It can proceed for a long time, causing various anomalies of thinking and behavior, which are noticeable only with close and long observation of the patient.
The causes of schizotypal personality disorder
In each case, these reasons are individual, but doctors see the connection of violations with the early childhood of the patient. If the child's needs were ignored, he lacked attention from adults, was subjected to violence and other physical and mental traumas, then this ailment could later develop. In addition, heredity is of great importance, since this pathological condition can manifest itself due to genetic predisposition.
Symptoms of schizotypal personality disorder
Such patients are almost always fenced off from the social environment. Their behavior and appearance can be regarded as eccentric, strange, eccentric. They are tormented by paranoia and suspicion, obsessions, auditory, visual and other hallucinations. They often behave aggressively, shouting and crying without reason. In conversation, a person can lose the thread of conversation, often repeat individual snatches of phrases.
The signs of the disease in children are identical to those of adults. Quite often the child is put the concomitant diagnosis of "autism", while the child may inadequately respond to any actions that do not correspond to his ideas about how it should be. Such children may have impaired coordination of movement. With age, the symptomatology of the disease increases with the acquisition of new syndromes.
Diagnosis and treatment
The diagnosis is made only if the patient has at least 4 symptoms of at least 2 symptoms for at least 2 years. A typical symptom of a mental disorder is the negation of the patient's presence. Those who are interested in whether a schizotypic disorder can be cured can not be unequivocally answered, since the prognosis is always individual. In this case, great importance is attached to psychotherapy, because if there are no outbreaks of aggression and anger, the patient is not subjected to drug therapy with neuroleptics, and treated only by psychotherapeutic methods. However, it must be remembered that schizotypal personality disorder is a chronic disease and can sometimes become aggravated.