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I'm just highlighting pieces of note from here, because I keep cracking up as I read the article.
"Schizoid personality disorder (SPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a lack of interest in social relationships, a tendency towards a solitary lifestyle, secretiveness, and emotional coldness."
Ping, ping, ping. . . Ping?
"The DSM-IV-TR, a widely used manual for diagnosing mental disorders, defines schizoid personality disorder as:
A. A pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of expression of emotions in interpersonal settings, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by four (or more) of the following:
1. neither desires nor enjoys close relationships, including being part of a family
2. almost always chooses solitary activities
3. has little, if any, interest in having sexual experiences with another person
4. takes pleasure in few, if any, activities
5. lacks close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives
6. appears indifferent to the praise or criticism of others
7. shows emotional coldness, detachment, or flattened affect"
But, wait, it gets better later on!
"Many fundamentally schizoid people present with an engaging, interactive personality style. Such a person can appear to be available, interested, engaged, and involved in interacting with others; however, in reality, he or she is emotionally withdrawn and sequestered in a safe place in an internal world. While withdrawnness or detachment from the outer world is a characteristic feature of schizoid pathology, it is sometimes overt and sometimes covert."
Yeah. . . Yeah, lolo.
"The more that schizoids can rely on themselves, the less they have to rely on other people and so expose themselves to the potential dangers and anxieties associated with that reliance or, even worse, dependence. The vast majority of schizoid individuals show an enormous capacity for self-sufficiency, for the ability to operate alone, independently and autonomously, in managing their worlds."
So, how about the fact that Kino has spent three years with only a bike as her only regular companion while camping out around the world?
"Guntrip states, "a sense of superiority naturally goes with self-sufficiency. One has no need of other people, they can be dispensed with... There often goes with it a feeling of being different from other people." The sense of superiority of the schizoid has nothing to do with the grandiose self of the narcissistic disorder. It does not find expression in the schizoid through the need to devalue or annihilate others who are perceived as offending, criticizing, shaming, or humiliating."
Traveler, traveler, traveler-Kino is just different from everyone else in her mind nor does she think many people should do what she does. It's just. . . Not something everyone can or should do!
"Because of the tremendous investment made in the self - the need to be self-contained, self-sufficient, and self-reliant - there is inevitable interference in the desire and ability to feel another person’s experience, to be empathic and sensitive. Often these things seem secondary, a luxury that has to await securing one's own defensive, safe position."
Hilariously, by traveling which involves being social and empathic in very short bursts, Kino manages to fend of a certain amount of "loss of affect" that gets described. So, she feels very secure in being able to do this, because her indifference is always secured. This also explains why there's a divergence between Kino being uncomfortable with thought of settling down, but having a strong desire to see the world and meet many people.
"Guntrip describes depersonalization as a loss of a sense of identity and individuality. Depersonalization is a dissociative defense. Depersonalization is often described by the schizoid patient as a tuning out or a turning off, or as the experience of a separation between the observing and the participating ego. It is experienced by those with schizoid personality disorder when anxieties seem overwhelming."
Note: Kino did not become secure in herself as Kino until after the trauma of the axe-killer woman, not after she left her country despite taking on the name on a spur of the moment decision. You could make a case for Kino deciding to become part of the "Kino legacy" with becoming a traveler and taking on the mannerisms, too.
"According to Gunderson,[14],"people with SPD “feel lost” without the people they are normally around because they need a sense of security and stability. However, when the patient’s personal space is violated, they feel suffocated and feel the need to free themselves and be independent. Those people who have SPD are happiest when they are in a relationship in which the partner places few emotional or intimate demands on them, as it is not people as such that they want to avoid, but both negative and positive emotions, emotional intimacy, and self disclosure."
HI, HERMES ♥ Seriously, Hermes and Kino have a wonderful relationship based on her continuously lying to him about her past and getting to have her way all the time, while he just keeps raving about how dumb humans are. . . App my bike. :(
"Schizoid personality disorder (SPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a lack of interest in social relationships, a tendency towards a solitary lifestyle, secretiveness, and emotional coldness."
Ping, ping, ping. . . Ping?
"The DSM-IV-TR, a widely used manual for diagnosing mental disorders, defines schizoid personality disorder as:
A. A pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of expression of emotions in interpersonal settings, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by four (or more) of the following:
1. neither desires nor enjoys close relationships, including being part of a family
2. almost always chooses solitary activities
3. has little, if any, interest in having sexual experiences with another person
4. takes pleasure in few, if any, activities
5. lacks close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives
6. appears indifferent to the praise or criticism of others
7. shows emotional coldness, detachment, or flattened affect"
But, wait, it gets better later on!
"Many fundamentally schizoid people present with an engaging, interactive personality style. Such a person can appear to be available, interested, engaged, and involved in interacting with others; however, in reality, he or she is emotionally withdrawn and sequestered in a safe place in an internal world. While withdrawnness or detachment from the outer world is a characteristic feature of schizoid pathology, it is sometimes overt and sometimes covert."
Yeah. . . Yeah, lolo.
"The more that schizoids can rely on themselves, the less they have to rely on other people and so expose themselves to the potential dangers and anxieties associated with that reliance or, even worse, dependence. The vast majority of schizoid individuals show an enormous capacity for self-sufficiency, for the ability to operate alone, independently and autonomously, in managing their worlds."
So, how about the fact that Kino has spent three years with only a bike as her only regular companion while camping out around the world?
"Guntrip states, "a sense of superiority naturally goes with self-sufficiency. One has no need of other people, they can be dispensed with... There often goes with it a feeling of being different from other people." The sense of superiority of the schizoid has nothing to do with the grandiose self of the narcissistic disorder. It does not find expression in the schizoid through the need to devalue or annihilate others who are perceived as offending, criticizing, shaming, or humiliating."
Traveler, traveler, traveler-Kino is just different from everyone else in her mind nor does she think many people should do what she does. It's just. . . Not something everyone can or should do!
"Because of the tremendous investment made in the self - the need to be self-contained, self-sufficient, and self-reliant - there is inevitable interference in the desire and ability to feel another person’s experience, to be empathic and sensitive. Often these things seem secondary, a luxury that has to await securing one's own defensive, safe position."
Hilariously, by traveling which involves being social and empathic in very short bursts, Kino manages to fend of a certain amount of "loss of affect" that gets described. So, she feels very secure in being able to do this, because her indifference is always secured. This also explains why there's a divergence between Kino being uncomfortable with thought of settling down, but having a strong desire to see the world and meet many people.
"Guntrip describes depersonalization as a loss of a sense of identity and individuality. Depersonalization is a dissociative defense. Depersonalization is often described by the schizoid patient as a tuning out or a turning off, or as the experience of a separation between the observing and the participating ego. It is experienced by those with schizoid personality disorder when anxieties seem overwhelming."
Note: Kino did not become secure in herself as Kino until after the trauma of the axe-killer woman, not after she left her country despite taking on the name on a spur of the moment decision. You could make a case for Kino deciding to become part of the "Kino legacy" with becoming a traveler and taking on the mannerisms, too.
"According to Gunderson,[14],"people with SPD “feel lost” without the people they are normally around because they need a sense of security and stability. However, when the patient’s personal space is violated, they feel suffocated and feel the need to free themselves and be independent. Those people who have SPD are happiest when they are in a relationship in which the partner places few emotional or intimate demands on them, as it is not people as such that they want to avoid, but both negative and positive emotions, emotional intimacy, and self disclosure."
HI, HERMES ♥ Seriously, Hermes and Kino have a wonderful relationship based on her continuously lying to him about her past and getting to have her way all the time, while he just keeps raving about how dumb humans are. . . App my bike. :(