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derpyderpins

derpyderpins

Pollyanna, loon, believer in love, believer in you
Sep 19, 2023
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This is interesting to me because these are symptoms that seem - in my case - not a result of my base personality but as a byproduct of years of struggling.

Google gives me this overview of Schizoid:

A condition in which people avoid social activities and interacting with others.
Schizoid personality disorder typically begins in early adulthood.
People with this condition don't desire or enjoy close relationships, even with family, and are often seen as loners. They may be emotionally cold and detached.
Therapy and medications, such as antidepressants or mood stabilizers, can help.

It's really curious to me that we say antidepressants help, as my antidepressants make my mood stagnate and make me - generally - act more like the symptoms described than I would otherwise.

Anyway, my results:

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Moderate: 48.75%

Impassivity: People with schizoid personality elements often appear to be in an inert emotional state. They are frequently described by others as lifeless, undemonstrative, and lacking in energy and vitality. They tend to be unmoved, impassive, unanimated, robotic, unemotional, and have a stolidly calm expression. Moreover, many display deficits in activation, motoric expressiveness, and spontaneity.
Isolation: Schizoid individuals tend to be interpersonally unengaged. To others, they seem to be indifferent, remote, and rarely responsive to the actions or feelings of others. They usually choose solitary activities, possess minimal social interests, and fade into the background. They are often seen as aloof or unobtrusive, as if they neither desire nor enjoy close relationships. Hence, many are found in peripheral roles in social, work, and family settings.
Impoverished Cognition: People with schizoid personalities seem deficient across broad spheres of mental reactions. They tend to exhibit vague and obscure thought processes and disinterest in social information and people. Thus, their communication with others is often unfocused; they usually refrain from participating overmuch in social exchanges and may usually convey their ideas in a lethargic or self-referential manner.
Complacent Self: Schizoid individuals reveal minimal introspection and awareness of the self and its potentialities. They seem impervious to the emotional and personal implications of everyday social life and appear indifferent to praise or criticism from others.
Meager Contents: People with schizoid personalities have few internalized representations. They rarely articulate their thoughts and are largely forlorn regarding the manifold percepts and memories of relationships involving others. Consequently, schizoid people tend to possess little of the dynamic psychic interplay among drives and conflicts that typify well-adjusted adults.
Intellectualization: A central schizoid trait is the tendency to describe interpersonal and affective experiences in a matter-of-fact, abstract, impersonal, and mechanical manner. People with schizoid features tend to pay primary attention to formal and objective aspects of social and emotional events, thus downplaying or overlooking the affective and emotional reality of these events, relegating them instead to the domain of thoughts and intellect.
Undifferentiated Experience: Given their inner barrenness, schizoid individuals tend to have a feeble drive to fulfill their needs. Either they feel minimal pressure to defend against or resolve internal conflicts or to cope with external demands. Hence, many are not very motivated to pursue their dreams.
Apathetic Mood: People with schizoid personality features tend to be emotionally unexcitable. Others report that they often exhibit an unfeeling, cold, and stark quality. Schizoids usually report weak affectionate or erotic needs, they rarely display warm or intense feelings, and they are apparently unable to deeply experience most common affects such as pleasure, sadness, and anger. Hence, they may feel that nothing seems to excite them.
 
leloyon

leloyon

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I am not too surprised by my results. I have some schizoid traits (particularly with daydreaming and fantasy, I would say that is the thing I have most in common with them), however I also have BPD so my experiences with emotion hardly line up with the experiences of schizoids on that front. I would say I have quiet BPD, so I tend to come across as just isolated and aloof despite my emotions going completely haywire inside, in fact I often seem to just tune out and shut down externally when I am most freaked out. So while a lot of the things said about them seeming unemotional to others I could relate to (hence the high scores on some of those fronts), this only applies to how I appear to others externally. As for isolation, I am unhappy with being isolated but just have a hard time forming relationships, not much else to say there.

"Your schizoid traits are moderate (58.13%)."
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I also did the test

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whitetaildeer

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Aug 5, 2024
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definitely surprising results. i'm also very bad at understanding myself so who knows anymore šŸ« 

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depressedcappuccino

depressedcappuccino

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I knew I had schizoid personality disorder when I was younger trying to figure out if I was introverted, antisocial or whatever, but man am I fucked. Genuinely wasn't made to last long especially with all the shit life has thrown at me as well as my own incompetence.

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The_Hunter

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One can't reliably assess their schizoid-ness from an online test, though.

Everyone has their own mix of efficiencies and deficiencies; that can manifest or shift in complex ways that do not fit into neat kits of categorization; as test such as this may lead us to believe. Same story with the Myersā€“Briggs.

Oftentime such tests just become avenues for us to reconfirm our own assumptions about ourselves. Confirmation bias, essentially.

...looking at this now... there's some negative result no matter what. I mean, even I scored a 3/5 on "impoverished cognition" and "undifferentiated experience". It almost feels as if the test is designed to elicit a negative result no matter what you end up having in you. It's an unwinnable game. You lose no matter what; somewhere or other.

I cannot vouch for this test. I encourage people to put genuine time into researching the specific traits of a psychological condition are, related conditions that may share similarities with it, as opposed to resulting into online tests which were never meant to be taken seriously.

I say all these things because I know that people here will take such tests seriously; potentially detrimenting further. (Yes, we are on "sanctioned suicide" of course, but I would like to see people's discontents with life minimized regardless.)

I also say all these things, because it feels odd to find further problems with an insufficiently based test of ours--it moreso seems a "badge of dishonor" than any legitimate categorization.

I don't feel there can be much benefit from taking tests like these. Looking into yourself and what your tendencies might mean? Researching specific conditions to find meaning and make sense of your confusions? I'm all for it! But to me, this seems like the fast-food of psychology--unfulfilling, yet enough to satisfy us for the moment. And also, easy to make and obtain, even if it's not the best thing available to us in our range.

As for my own results; got less than 2 for Isolation, Impassivity, and Intellectualization; less than 1 for Apathetic Mood, Complacent Self, and [none apparently for] Meager Contents. I got a little over 3 in Undifferentiated Experience and Impoverished Condition, but that's about it, hah.

Also. What if there are other psychological conditions impacting the results? For example, presence of autism spectrum tendencies interfering with this assessment's questions on sociality. (An autist might struggle to understand what's the buzz on socialistic small-talk of people's banal life details.) And that would end up factoring into this test's inquisition on schizoid personality. It seems like quite the flaw indeed!

Diagnosis can never be in a vacuum; and so confusion can happen when we tunnel-vision into one possibility. And that's after all ignoring... that people taking the test might already assume they have it--hence, confirmation bias influencing the results.

These are my thoughts on this. Apologies if it was insensitive. but hopefully it was sensible enough.

I also mean not to deny anybody's legitimate convictions or suspicions of what they may be experiencing. I encourage everyone to explore their own understandings of themselves with the finest clarity and most precise scientific knowledge available. I wish you all luck in your quest for coherence of our own psychologies--a confusing and crucial quest indeed.

--Hunter
 
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TransilvanianHunger

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Google gives me this overview of Schizoid:

A condition in which people avoid social activities and interacting with others.
Schizoid personality disorder typically begins in early adulthood.
People with this condition don't desire or enjoy close relationships, even with family, and are often seen as loners. They may be emotionally cold and detached.
Therapy and medications, such as antidepressants or mood stabilizers, can help.
I really dislike this sort of symptom-based description of schizoid personalities. They are simplistic at best, misleading at worst ā€” the person is reduced to a kind of weird loner who does not care about anyone, does not enjoy much of anything, is only minimally aware of themselves, and is little more than an emotionally inert human-shaped void.

The category explanations this test offers show exactly what I'm talking about:
[...] lifeless, undemonstrative, and lacking in energy and vitality. [...] indifferent, remote, and rarely responsive to the actions or feelings of others [...] They tend to exhibit vague and obscure thought processes and disinterest in social information and people [...] minimal introspection and awareness of the self and its potentialities. [...] have few internalized representations [...] tend to possess little of the dynamic psychic interplay among drives and conflicts that typify well-adjusted adults [...] given their inner barrenness, schizoid individuals tend to have a feeble drive to fulfill their needs [...] unfeeling, cold [...]
No wonder schizoid personalities are one of the least represented in clinical settings ā€” with such uni-dimensional, simplistic descriptions, your average schizoid will rarely bother trying to talk to anyone about what goes on inside them.

If anyone is interested in a much more nuanced, insightful, and (in my experience, at least) accurate description of schizoid personalities, I'll leave here an article by psychotherapist Nancy McWilliams, one of my favourite modern psychoanalytic authors. It is a bit heavy on the theory, because it was written for a psychoanalytic journal, so feel free to skip over stuff that seems too nerdy if it doesn't mean much to you ā€” she still offers a very interesting picture of schizoid personality dynamics:

The psychoanalytic use of the term "schizoid" derives from the observations of "schisms" between the internal life and the externally observable life of the schizoid individual (cf. Laing, 1965). For example, schizoid people are overtly detached, yet they describe in therapy a deep longing for closeness and compelling fantasies of intimate involvement. They appear self-sufficient, and yet anyone who gets to know them well can attest to the depth of their emotional need. They can be absent-minded at the same time that they are acutely vigilant. They may seem completely nonreactive, yet suffer an exquisite level of sensitivity. They may look affectively blunted while internally coping with what one of my schizoid friends calls "protoaffect," the experience of being frighteningly overpowered by intense emotion. They may seem utterly indifferent to sex while nourishing a sexu- ally preoccupied, polymorphously elaborated fantasy life. They may strike others as unusually gentle souls, but an intimate may learn that they nourish elaborate fantasies of world destruction.
 

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yxmux

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I have Schizoid Personality Disorder for context. I didn't like some of these questions though.

Schizoid Personality Disorder (SzPD) is very poorly understood, and there are a lot of different notions as to what exactly it is. In fact, I often have a hard time articulating exactly what it is. I'll try to describe the disorder the best I can based on my understanding of it.

A lot of people seem to not understand that it is a personality disorder. It is not a neurodevelopmental disorder, it is not a dissociative disorder, it is not simply being having the personality of an asocial loner packaged as a diagnosis. One can have a schizoid personality style, even if that is exacerbated by another diagnosis, without it being SzPD. Comorbidities are possible and very common though with personality disorders. See the general diagnostic criteria for personality disorders in the DSM and ICD.

Schizoids have the complex that they ought to not be a subject to their own emotions, desires, instincts, cravings, and anything else perceived as some irrational cue or anything "too human" such at they do not feel domineered by them. They only allow themselves to be influenced by these at their own will as much as they can, and they are very sensitive as to what's allowed to permeate. They view these as objects, analyzing and extracting any value from them at a safe distance. They reject these objects from integrating into their psyche or them as a subject. If these objects ever did, they split that state of themselves from their psyche, making that itself an object. This is no different for external forces, i.e., others emotions, desires, etc. Schizoids don't just prefer to be loners. They literally have the complex that they ought to be loners.

If anyone is interested in a much more nuanced, insightful, and (in my experience, at least) accurate description of schizoid personalities, I'll leave here an article by psychotherapist Nancy McWilliams, one of my favourite modern psychoanalytic authors.

One thing about McWilliams' writing that I dislike from what I read is that she seems to portray schizoids as autistically hypersensitive or hyperpermeable when it's more like schizoids perceive themselves and everyone else as such except everyone else is seemingly clueless to it and therefore more vulnerable and basically normies or living NPCs or whatever blah blah blah (of course there is some internal discord here though). The latter would align more accurately with a personality disorder diagnosis, but I'm only speaking from my own experience here.
 
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Redacted24

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I guess this test also describes me as, "meh"...
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Someday I'll find something I'm good at.... other than being "meh!"
 
needthebus

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I think it's a really stupid test and personality disorder

the reason is a lot of people who don't socialize and don't interact with others do so because they've been treated badly over and over and learn that they are better off not interacting with people

so for instance, someone who is different in some way and doesn't fit in socially may react in this way. people are often mean to people who are different. if someone has a slightly different face, for instance, and people are often mean to them or not interested in being nice, and if family is nice but not that kind, this person may learn to do these things to not get hurt. it doesn't necessarily mean it's their personality.

they don't compare such personality traits relative to how people naturally treat them. i bet extremely beautiful people never have this disorder because they are always treated well, and therefore it's not a personality, it's a learned adaptation to how people react
 
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ShatteredSerenity

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I'm autistic, and there was a huge overlap with autism traits in these questions. If it weren't for that I would have scored very low. I definitely want to connect with people intensely, I just have difficulty figuring out how. And I want to spend most of my time with people, even if I'm aloof. So I'm don't have core schizoid personalty disorder traits, it's just difficult to differentiate from autism in a single test.
 
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Skelix

Skelix

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Schizoid personality spectrum

Your schizoid traits are high (70.63%)
 
whiskeyblanket

whiskeyblanket

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Your schizoid traits are very high (83.13%).
I have long suspected I may have schizoid personality disorder, but like some who have posted before me in this thread, find a short online test like this to be rather simplistic.

Edited for word choice/variation, because nitpicking is my passion.
 
Rust

Rust

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Schizoid personality spectrum

Got 77.5%, though my psychiatrist says I'm not a schizoid. I agree that these tests are silly, but damn, there is something unexplained going on in my head.

They may strike others as unusually gentle souls, but an intimate may learn that they nourish elaborate fantasies of world destruction.
In my defence, I've twisted my mind into believing that world destruction is better for humanity than whatever we're heading towards. The grandiosity of my delusions means that I'm still somehow a gentle soul :halo:
 
needthebus

needthebus

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This proves nothing other than that I'm good at taking tests and/or have psychic powers and/or like the color green.
 
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Schizoid personality spectrum (i've never used the image option on this site before, apologies if this takes up anyones screen)

it told me my schizoid traits are high (71.25%). i think schizoid traits have an overlap with certain autist traits, and that mixed with depression, i suppose i can see why i got a somewhat high score.

i think online tests are a bunch of bull, and id rather not self diagnose myself with anything (you cant determine what you are from a single test, after all. especially not an online one), so i wont take it to heart. they're a nice time waster, at least.
 
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IMG 3828 This is interesting to me because I feel most of this is wrong.
 

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