What is Schizotypal Personality Disorder?

Question

And also: I know that children aren't diagnosed with Personality disorders, but can teenagers be diagnosed with them?

Answer 1

Try a google search....... yes teenagers can be diagnosed with personality disorders.

I did a google search and there IS a Schizotypal Personality disorder. It is similar to a schizoid type in that both want/need isolation from people/society but the schizo type is because of a fear of people and a schizoid type just sees no point to it.

Answer 2

Characteristics:

# Odd beliefs or magical thinking that influences behavior and is inconsistent with subcultural norms (e.g., superstitiousness, belief in clairvoyance, telepathy, or "sixth sense"; in children and adolescents, bizarre fantasies or preoccupations)

# Unusual perceptual experiences, including bodily illusions

# Odd thinking and speech (e.g., vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, overelaborate, or stereotyped)

# Suspiciousness or paranoid ideation

# Inappropriate or constricted affect

# Behavior or appearance that is odd, eccentric, or peculiar

# Lack of close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives

# Social anxiety that tends to be associated with paranoid fears rather than negative judgments about self

Answer 3

teenagers can be diagnosed with it, but most of them just suffer fom Bipolar Disorder

Answer 4

I have never heard of the personality disorder you are describing.  I looked on allpsych.com

There is not a personality disorder by that name.

take a look at the 3 personality disorders

http://allpsych.com/disorders/personalit...