schizoid or depressed?

xkjgfjk Joined: Jan 17, '10 Status: Junior User	2010-02-10 18:03:02
	so i talked to a psychologist about my schizoid personality and now she wants to send me back to a psyquiatrist because she thinks i'm severely depressed. now i have had depression in the past, i was on fluoxetin for two years and i felt better but my personality never changed. so even though i interrupted the treatment on my own, i got over the depression but still won't leave my house not because i'm depressed but because i just don't want to see anyone. it's a different matter now which she doesn't seem to understand; she doesn't accept my lack of interest in sex or relationships as being part of my personality but rather she thinks somehow anti-depressants will activate something in my brain that will make me become interested and be able to actually take pleasure in those things while in those two years they never did. now i may be sad and frustrated due to everyone's inability to leave me alone, and i may have some depressive features but i honestly don't think i am clinically depressed to the point of needing medication to get up in the morning. it could only change the way i feel inside but i don't think it can change how i feel towards other people? what do you guys think?
CalmDove Joined: Feb 7, '10 Status: New User	2010-02-10 18:18:50
	I think you're schizoid and your psychologist has got her s--- wrong.
Synapse Joined: Oct 24, '09 Status: Senior User	2010-02-10 18:22:23
	i think you're depressed, remember depression is a lack of desire to do those things you mentioned, you don't type like a schizoid, schizoids don't talk to psychologists, schizoids dont seek treatment
aernum Joined: Feb 4, '10 Status: Junior User	2010-02-10 18:30:01
	" she thinks somehow anti-depressants will activate something in my brain" let say she got commissions when you guy those anti depressants.. the more you gonna go insane the better for her for you will visit her more often and that means more $$$ sorry for this awful comment
xkjgfjk Joined: Jan 17, '10 Status: Junior User	2010-02-11 05:02:54
	i didn't go seek treatment myself, if it depended on me i would be secluded for life but my parents are forcing me to go and i obey since i depend on them and they want to change that. but since i was already at it i made an effort to talk about how i feel even if it drained me out, i was hoping for some understanding but the solution she's offering is just part of the problem (as in after taking the meds i should try to have contact with people and according to her it would be an enjoyable thing) it doesn't seem reasonable. but how do we differentiate depression from schizoid pd then? i would think a depressed person doesn't want to do anything at all while schizoid wants as long as it doesn't involve social interaction? isn't that right?
moonprayer Joined: Jul 28, '09 Status: Junior User	2010-02-11 13:20:52
	my opinion, as soon as you get into adult treatment, they will start giving you pills, or you get the label ADHD or Depression... Seems like the psychiatrists in my country are freaking lazy. I know of these things because my boyfriend is in treatment. He does have severe depression and his pills do work a little, though I know they could've helped him more with other issues like self-esteem. But they just won't. in a month I have to go see a psychiatrist. I will not let myself get treated that way... I mean, I don't know better than anti depression pills FLATLINE your emotions more... they get balans... but someone who might be schizoid, is emotionaly flatlined. and I think it's nonsense that someone can decide if someone is schizoid by their typing? English is a foreign language to me, and I guess to others also. I think you're not clinical depressed, but hey I don't know your situation.
cocoa Joined: Jan 8, '10 Status: Junior User	2010-02-11 14:26:47
	dear xkjgfgk, as i am your schizoid mate (cheers!:D) i can relate to what u feel. i don't think you are depressed. in my opinion, seeing a psychologist who is incompetent can be really depressing. they take short cuts. since shizoid personality is harder to no solution to treat, they'll label as depressed and start prescribing anti-depressant. no, dude, you are not depressed. so you don't need them. what you need is motivation and self confidence. i am lack in these areas too. i need someone to motivate me and told what to do, how to do and need to be reassuread that i can do it all the time. well, of course nobody will have the energy to do that all the time. so i try to be positive. i try and i pretend to be. so, dude, pretend. though u don't like meeting people as much as i don't too, just fake it. fake it all your life. fake it, dude. everybody does that. no one is for real. everybody id just faking it. so let's just fake to be happy, chirpy, confident etc...don't fall prey to the insane medications. we can do this, shizoid soul-mate! let's fake it! cheers!
Hip Joined: Aug 10, '09 Status: Senior User	2010-02-11 14:37:59
	Synapse, do I type like a schizoid?
xkjgfjk Joined: Jan 17, '10 Status: Junior User	2010-02-11 16:32:26
	thanks for your replies. dearest cocoa, you're absolutely right. i felt that she was looking at me like a lost cause so what she did was try to convince me that i have depression to give me false hopes of becoming a social butterfly so that i would continue to go there. yep, i see her game now. the only way is faking like you said, i need to find where i left my mask, clean its dust and spider webs and put it back on. it has worked before... kind of, i guess... i just wish i could live locked in my bedroom for the rest of my life without having to put up with anyone... i don't know but i'm afraid that's the only lifestyle i can live up to... i'm not capable of faking anymore... maybe i am indeed a lost cause...
moonprayer Joined: Jul 28, '09 Status: Junior User	2010-02-11 21:38:39
	i think your not a lost cause, you just happend to meet a lazy psychiatrist, who isn't motivated to help. ik think there are some things that can change and make things easier for you. but the one who's treating you should be motivated to really help, and not just prescribe some medicine.
xkjgfjk Joined: Jan 17, '10 Status: Junior User	2010-02-12 03:05:20
	i see... (it's a psychologist though, i haven't gone to the psyquiatrist yet) and she said she wanted to put me in group therapy, another thing i didn't like to hear... but i have no choice but to go there because she is giving a discount to my parents that other psychologists don't give, so i don't know what i'm gonna do, if i say i don't want to go anymore i'll have to prove i'm better by going out. but i can't. i guess i'll continue to go and just sit there nodding and answer her questions from now on. what kind of help was i even expecting to get.
Synapse Joined: Oct 24, '09 Status: Senior User	2010-02-12 06:56:45
	yes you do hip the difference is that depressed people don't want to be depressed and yearn for a different life with social contact schizoids aren't afraid of doing those things they just choose not to and live quite 'happily' by themselves.
xkjgfjk Joined: Jan 17, '10 Status: Junior User	2010-02-12 10:16:24
	as long as they have their own space and no one's constantly invading it and shoving things in their faces, sure. even i would be happy that way.
Hip Joined: Aug 10, '09 Status: Senior User	2010-02-12 15:48:37
	"yes you do hip" kthanks, ill type less coherently from now on ;)
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