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Dr Kirk Honda provides his deep dive on schizotypal personality disorder.

00:00 Treatment of schizotypal

34:08 Listener emails about schizotypal

1:02:16 In conclusion


March 15, 2023

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Anonymous

Dear Dr. Honda, thank you Very much for this compassionate and respectful deep dive on this disorder. Having been diagnosed with that disorder myself, and indeed suffering from it very much for especially the last 4years, I also used that time to research and learn a lot about psychology, psychoanalysis etc. what I‘ve learned regarding the schizo-spectrum diseases and feel is veryvery important is; the lacking sense of self and even worse , the selft contempt beCause we experienced such neglect in childhood (and of course having the genetic disposition for this vulnerability). I am very very grateful to learn that there are interested therapists like you out there who don‘t reduce „schizotypals“ to biology. It doesn‘t help and makes the suffering and distrust so much worse. I also love how you realized that you really have to talk to us in sessions like little children. I have studied myself for so long now, that a more healthy grownup or „higher self“/Über-Ich has evolved in me to acknowledge that need. I did come that far via a lot of hardships and pain and a, probably also inherent curiosity and love for learning but as I see; a lot of my fellow sufferers don‘t have that and I feel (as I felt myself with psychiatry and psychotherapists) are left in the dark. So thank you again, for being so humble to really dig deeper. Symptoms, of all diseases, can look sooo discouraging, rejectful or even frightening, but there are always these little perfectly healthy lights of life in there to which everyone of us belongs (like the inner innocent child, in respect to not coming across as too schizotypal…) So stay vigilant for this goodness, and trust that it Is always there. Thank you again! 🙏🖐️

Anonymous

I know I'm a bit fashionably late to the party here, but I really have to thank you, doc, for posting these. I joined the patreon specifically to listen to these episodes as I was recently diagnosed with schizotypal PD (specifically the kind you describe as "classic" presentation) by my psychologist I began to see for my DID symptoms. I never heard about it before being diagnosed and so I looked around online to see what info I could find on it, to try and understand more. The information was all very sparse, non-specific and confusing to me- but after listening to all five chapters I have a much better grasp on it and I think my psychologist hit the nail on the head with me based on what you discussed, especially about the internal rationale for why someone becomes like this and what in early childhood causes it. It all sounded almost identical to my upbringing, which I'm sure you can tell was not great just based upon my initial reason for seeing that psychologist. This also put me at ease as I (ironically, lol) began to wonder if my psychologist was just trying to tell me I'm weird or crazy, because she didn't have the time during our session to go through all the ins and outs with me. Listening to this stuff was relieving because I feel like it really clarified where she was coming from and I definitely agree with her.