Personality Disorders
"Odd" or "Eccentric" disorders
Personality disorders, in essence, are long term, inflexible patterns of behaviour which impact on one's daily life to such a point that they cause significant distress.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
A psychiatric diagnosis that centres around paranoia. Patients are overly suspicious, hypersensitive to social movement, distort everyday occurrences to fit within their paranoid delusions and generally distrust people as a whole. Patients may not simultaneously experience similar symptoms whilst suffering from another psychiatric condition that tends to cause such symptoms.
Schizoid Personality Disorder
A comparatively rare personality disorder, SPD exhibits symptoms of social withdrawal, emotional flattening and a lack of interest in life. Patients must experience at least three of the following symptoms in addition to the general criteria for personality disorders as a whole: emotional flattening, solitude, few social interactions, indifference to social trends, lack of libido, abnormal interest in paranormal/supernatural/magical worlds.
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Also referred to as "Schizotypal Disorder"
A personality disorder hallmarked with psychotic symptoms. Patients become detached from reality and often become withdrawn, isolated and reclusive; they can also suffer from delusions.
A criteria for this disorder are as follows:
Eccentric behaviour; paranoia, magical thinking, hypersensitivity, odd mood, unusual thinking patterns, a lack of social interaction, social anxiety.
Additionally, patients must not be suffering from an established psychotic illness.