What are the signs of schizotypal personality disorder?
Patients with schizotypal personality disorder are very uncomfortable in social settings, so they will endorse a great deal of anxiety if they have to be around other people. Now, familiarity will not reduce their social anxiety, so this isn’t a social anxiety that they’re self-conscious or they’re worried about what other people think. It is a social anxiety that’s based on paranoid concerns. So, the more you hang out with them, it’s not like they’re going to finally relax and get comfortable with you. Again, since they tend to be rather paranoid, that’s what creates the social anxiety. These people are also very eccentric. They will manifest peculiarities in their appearance, their thought process, and even their speech at times; they can have idiosyncratic little speech quirks. They have magical thinking, believe in ESP, or behave like “I’m not going to make a move until I consult my horoscope.” That’s not to say that people who believe in astrology have schizotypal personality diso
