You start a group on Daily Strength and since you are the only member it says "You Are Alone!". and that makes you smile.

Enjoying the fact that you're a "support group" of one.

Hi. I posted a question on the discusion forum about needing advice about schizoid + was wondering if you would consider looking at it. Did it today. It just says "need advice about schizoid personality disorder", something like that. It's long, so you might not want to be bothered with it, which is fine; I would get that. Whatever.
I'll leave you to your solitary support group.....
I like the holiday memory; it's perfect.I have often told family that I was working in order to be left alone so I could just stay home.

Also, FYI, have been considered bipolar, severe depression. But I don't feel unhappy about staying alone; just really irritated by the fact that the people in my family bother me and want to see me and/or talk to me on the phone.

Please don't leave the group. I doubt I'll be here often but while DS seemed to have groups for everything else there was nothing for the schizoid. No we don't tend to congregate but on occasion we do like to have company (on our terms) and we do have questions and prefer not to be told "Oh pooh, you don't sound schizophrenic at all". :)

I'm Bipolar 1 also. And I have dissociative disorders.... makes it that much easier to slip away into my mind and that much harder to come back.

Most of us are self diagnosed because we don't see a point to change. Honestly I was hoping more people would join this group... I don't think it will be a very active group but as I said we need information too.

OK, I'm not leaving since it's OK; I just didn't want to intrude!
I'm bipolar 2. And, yes, I loved the answer to my question about my possibility of being schizoid which reassured me that I do not seem schizophrenic. Yes, I know that I'm not schizophrenic!
I isolate myself, and see people when I want to, which is very infrequently. Actually, it's family obligation stuff; holidays, etc. I resent social phone calls. And I do find that once I get myself over the dread, and actually get out of my apartment, I do like seeing them. For a little while.
And I always thought that this was just depression from the bipolar 2, but I have been on meds for so long, with no success, that I have realized that there is something else. And, honestly, I really don't feel sad when I'm alone. I just want to be left alone.
Does it sound to you like this fits me? I'm still trying to figure it out. I just like to know stuff, even though I don't really care to try to fix anything because I know that it won't change + doesn't matter anyway.

It does sound very much like it fits. Again there will be degrees, from someone who is a bit of an introvert to the hermit in the cabin who hasn't seen another human in 20 years....... we are somewhere in between those.... I disagree with it being a "disorder". By definition a disorder is something that interferes with your life and your ability to function. I like my life and I function just fine. Extroverts think it interferes with our lives because they don't believe we can be happy this way. My therapist and I are arguing this point right now......

I am not sure if I am happy. Or sad.
But I do function.

I have mood swings from the bipolar but I am most content when I am neither happy or sad...... just content.

I have taken numerous online personality tests and almost all say that i'm somewhere between paranoid, schzoid, avoidant and schizotypal.

I totally agree with what you said about parents trying to phone me and i just want to tell them to fuck off! but i dont want to cut them off completly because they could be useful in the future also, they love me s much they probably wouldn't accept my rejection of them.

Also, i hate going some place only to find some arseholes there, why cant they Fuck Off and give me infinite space??!

Yeah i get the paradox of a schzoid discussion but this highlights a major theme in my entire life. The few friends that i actually stay in contact with (fairly infreqently) are the ones who are most like me and the friends who people would consider 'normal' i have drifted away from in the past 5 years.

Being only 21 my personality isnt fully fucked up enough yet, but i look forward to the day when i no longer have any social things. What's really fucked up is that i should be desirable to the opposite sex (moderatly attractive, an athlete etc) or to prospective friends but i dont make any effort to seek relationships unless other people start the relationship themselves but my disintrest makes it die because i'm too paranoid of their intentions.

I too get along better with other loners. I can take people on an individual basis and I sometimes find one I like a lot but it's rare..... people in groups (ornagized religion, PTA, etc). I do not like at all... not at all. I have cut off most contact with all family except for my kids. My psychiatrist says that is ok because that's how I'm happy. when I attempt to be social I make myself really nuts.... when I let it go and just enjoy my solitude I am content. Most friendships I do manage to cultivate end up dying from neglect. Apparently you are supposed to nurture friendships.... people don't like you anymore if you disappear for a month or more.......

I just had a chat with my psychiatrist and she disagrees with my therapist..... she says if I am happy with no social life and I have no interest in having a social life that it is not a problem and needs no treatment. Validation.

Hi all, yeah I have spent most of my life alone, even when I was married or with other people. I hated large groups of people and REALLY loathe people who I do not know start talking to me, when I am in line at stores or waiting for something. I have mellowed, I can stand to be touched and even will cuddle now and then. But on my terms. I loathe women who want to cling to me and want me to be there for them 24/7/365 which kind of FUBARs my relationships since I like to go off alone, and not tell them where or what I am doing because it ain't none of their business.

I was adopted into a religious fanatic family and was an only child so not only did spending most of my first year of life in an orphanage, but then I got stuck in a religious psycho family from hell which really screwed me up worse.

Anyway hello to all and I will kind of wander through here off and on...

You know you're a schizoid when you consider Stephen King's The Stand to be a work of utopian fiction.