I'm in this article and I don't like it.
Jun. 20th, 2023 09:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grayestofghostsI had been trying to write about this for about a week or two and I am realizing I can't say that much. I have been doing what I guess is called "processing" and with rabbit hole after rabbit hole I found this article, What Everyone Ought to Understand About Schizoid Personality Disorder and the rest of Elinor Greenberg's writing and, well. I don't think it's as bad as it was even a year or two ago but it's all disturbingly familiar.
I think the thing is as well with this that Greenberg seems to be using the pre-DMS-III concept of schizoid personality disorder, which was split into 3 different parts and kind of turned into a junk category that very few people who could be helped with or classified under and has little research toward it at all. But then this isn't about the DSM, I guess.
I feel like I had more to say a while ago but it kind of dried up. I've had something like 7-8 psychs in my life at this point and they tend to be seriously unhelpful at best, directly harmful at worst. And I do not think any of them understood my problems at all. At least one tried to throw the idea of attachment issues at me briefly and while I have looked into that, well, anything on avoidant attachment you find online is really going to be about people with anxious attachment, and this seems to capture it better than that, as it includes the weird stuff. I don't know. I suppose I'm tired.
I think the thing is as well with this that Greenberg seems to be using the pre-DMS-III concept of schizoid personality disorder, which was split into 3 different parts and kind of turned into a junk category that very few people who could be helped with or classified under and has little research toward it at all. But then this isn't about the DSM, I guess.
I feel like I had more to say a while ago but it kind of dried up. I've had something like 7-8 psychs in my life at this point and they tend to be seriously unhelpful at best, directly harmful at worst. And I do not think any of them understood my problems at all. At least one tried to throw the idea of attachment issues at me briefly and while I have looked into that, well, anything on avoidant attachment you find online is really going to be about people with anxious attachment, and this seems to capture it better than that, as it includes the weird stuff. I don't know. I suppose I'm tired.
