Schizotypal personality disorder is sometimes considered to be on a spectrum with schizophrenia, with schizotypal personality disorder viewed as less severe.
Cluster A personality disorders and avoidant personality disorder seem most commonly to antedate schizophrenia.
Personality disorders such as antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic, avoidant, dependent and obsessive-compulsive types have been detected in one third to one half of schizophrenia patients (Nielsen, Hewitt & Habke, 1997; Solano & Chavez, 2000).
People with schizotypal personality disorder typically display unusual behavior, odd speech and magical beliefs. They often don't realize their behavior is unusual or problematic. Some people with schizotypal personality disorder later develop schizophrenia.
Psychotic disorders include schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, schizophreniform disorder, brief psychotic disorder, delusional disorder, shared psychotic disorder, substance-induced psychotic disorder, and paraphrenia.
Many people inaccurately believe that people with schizophrenia have “split personalities.” This isn't the case. This isn't even technically true of DID. The Sidran Institute says that, although these personalities may feel or appear different, “They're all manifestations of a single, whole person.”
Those diagnosed with schizotypal, schizoid, and paranoid personality disorders are grouped together in Cluster A, and are classified by the DSM-IV-TR as representing “odd and eccentric behaviors” (APA 2000).
Most people with schizophrenia are never violent and indeed do not display any dangerous behaviour. However a small number do become violent when they are suffering from the acute symptoms of psychosis because of the influence of the hallucinations and delusions on their thinking.
Schizoaffective disorder and schizophrenia share some symptoms and treatments. The main difference is that schizoaffective disorder has a mood compenent, which can involve mania or depression. Some researchers believe schizoaffective disorder is a more severe variant of schizophrenia.
If you, or someone you know, are described as having “borderline schizophrenia”, it could point toward mild symptoms, unclear symptoms, or a combination of symptoms. The best thing you can do is to seek clarification from a licensed professional.
Of the different types of schizophrenia, residual schizophrenia is the mildest, characterized by specific residual schizophrenia symptoms.
It's rare for borderline personality disorder (BPD) and schizophrenia to occur together, but it is possible.
You could have: Hallucinations: Seeing or hearing things that aren't there. Delusions: Mistaken but firmly held beliefs that are easy to prove wrong, like thinking you have superpowers, are a famous person, or people are out to get you. Disorganized speech: Using words and sentences that don't make sense to others.
Unfortunately, most people with schizophrenia are unaware that their symptoms are warning signs of a mental disorder. Their lives may be unraveling, yet they may believe that their experiences are normal. Or they may feel that they're blessed or cursed with special insights that others can't see.
Patients with schizophrenia have a reduced aerobic capacity [1, 2] and report subjective muscle weakness [3]. It is likely that both play an important role in the physical adaptation to daily life activities such as walking.
Most people with schizophrenia are harmless to others. They're more likely to hurt themselves than anybody else. Sometimes that includes trying to take their own life. You should take any suicidal talk seriously, and pay attention to poems, notes, or any other things your loved one creates that are about death.
Connecting face-to-face with others is the most effective way to calm your nervous system and relieve stress. Since stress can trigger psychosis and make the symptoms of schizophrenia worse, keeping it under control is extremely important.
People with schizoaffective disorder can have a wide variety of different symptoms, including having unusual perceptual experiences (hallucinations) or beliefs others do not share (delusions), mood (such as marked depression), low motivation, inability to experience pleasure, and poor attention.
Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) is characterized by uncontrollable outbursts of laughter and/or crying episodes that lack an appropriate environmental trigger; is either unrelated or out of proportion to the emotions felt by the patient; and is secondary to a neurological disease or injury.