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I finally got lucky and found a therapist who gets me. Never heard of schizoid (we learned together) but has super-solid attunement skills. So... there's hope.

Agree on Divided Self (assuming that's the Laing you mean?) really good read. The Masterson/Klein book is pretty good too.

I wish more of us were given bupropion right out of the gate (is also the only daily med that helped me). SSRIs are generally not going to be our friend and when some people are only willing to give meds one or two tries, I think a lot is lost...

Wow.

I cried for 2 hours when it hit me that I’m not literally the only schizoid mind.

As for books, the most extensive, a very well written one, is:

https://www.amazon.com/Disorders-Self-Therapeutic-Horizons-Masterson-ebook/dp/B00DL1NFTS

As a shorter one, I would definitely read “Schizoid factors in the personality” by Fairbairn. That one was crazy, the fact that the author was schizoid himself shows in every paragraph.

That feeling of being able to relate to someone, I literally only had with fictional characters beforehand. (And only two, Dexter Morgan from the tv show Dexter and Lelouch Lamperouge from the anime Code Geass actually represents a schizoid in really interesting depths to justify me saying I identified to a degree that spoke to the “am I the only one like me” loneliness)

And thanks a lot for telling me this, because I poured a lot of my soul into studying cognition and how the mind works, and moments like these make me feel my life’s worth hasn’t been wasted. In that spirit, I offer to go through your letters to your therapist if you think a second schizoid opinion might be of value.

Yeah actually, most of the dancing I've done has been at weddings. It's a lot easier to just "let go" when you're half drunk on red plus it's easier when you know the songs already and the rhythm and can anticipate the vocals and musical shifts, etc. Although besides that and dancing alone in my living room sometimes I don't really seek it as recreational activity.

ETA: If anyone gets the chance I would recommend Oliver Sacks' book Musicophilia where he discusses the neurology of music as well as disorders of the brain and how they affect musicality; mainly it's a collection of case studies with some being quite profound and rather odd. He also discusses how music is something of a neurologically unique phenomenon in how many of the different parts of the brain are recruited to process and enjoy it - including the motor cortex. There is an aspect of musicality that is culturally transcendent, that it moves, animates, transports, even if only minimally physically. Good book, Sacks was a good guy.

I was actually looking that up recently but this book specifically:

The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation

I'm just not sure I'd want to try to tackle it because I'd assume that it's full of scientific jargon and probably beyond my ability to comprehend.

I've been following this youtuber recently and I think she's pretty spot on about how CPTSD, Chronic Dissociation(freeze response), and Schizoid are all related. I kind of wish I had these videos earlier as it would've explained things much easier rather than me having to go through a multitude of books.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XXIxPLPWMc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyu3xQHCVGc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X25gKl3QPhU

It's on Amazon for 36$. I'd say it's good price for a clinical book and it has cool cover. bought it last week, still waiting to arrive to my country.


https://www.amazon.com/dp/1537334220/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_pSlZCb838CMEM

Any therapist can diagnose schizoid. It's in the DSM.

If you want a decent therapist, you might as well try Ralph Klein. He wrote a really good book about it.