Hey Deservant Listeners, today's episode is chapter two in my deep dive on Skeizoid personality disorder.

I thought I would start with another fictionalized case of Skizoid. This is someone that could show up in my office.

Let's start off by saying that this person is a woman.

She's currently 35 years old.

She lives alone and she works from home.

She translates technical manuals as a contract worker so she doesn't have to interact with people very much.

Growing up in the past, her parents went through a very nasty divorce that lasted for several years. Eventually the courts

had to intervene and they decided to split custody between both of the

parents. So for the first seven years of Emma's young life,

she went through a lot of difficulty and chaos and conflict.

At school, she kept to herself because she didn't really

understand other kids and she didn't really get along with them. Also at school

teachers often would complain that she was quote in her own world and very

distractible and they recommended that Emma be evaluated and she was evaluated and she was

evaluated and she was diagnosed with ADHD and she was put on ADHD medications

for a couple years. The meds seemed to help a little bit, but there were

complications with the meds, so her parents took her off the meds after a couple years.

Other kids tended to avoid her at school,

possibly because Emma seemed to be aloof or stuck up

or in her own world or weird was another word that they would

describe her as and Emma wasn't particularly interested in the things that other girls were interested in anyway,

so Emma didn't seem to care that the other kids ignored her.

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