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Schizoid
(redirected from Schizoid personality disorder)

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schizoid
1. Psychol denoting a personality disorder characterized by extreme shyness and oversensitivity to others
2. a person who has a schizoid personality

Schizoid 

a constitutionally and genetically determined type of personality characterized by autism (that is, preoccupation with the self and alienation from the external world), emotional coldness combined with marked vulnerability, and the predominance of abstract thinking. It is often associated with an asthenic body build.



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The other said that was possible but "believed he may have been suffering from a severe schizoid personality disorder, a psychotic illness or schizophrenia - or all three - and his heavy use of cannabis compounded them".
People with schizoid personality disorder have been described as lacking empathy (e.
Another expert in psychiatry and neurology who also interviewed the boy shared this opinion and suggested that his migraines resulted from a self-induced pressure to make good grades and that his pain disorder had progressively worsened to a schizoid personality disorder resulting in his detachment from social relationships and restricted range of emotional expression.
 
 
 
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