I'm Schizotypal

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After I thought for several months that I'm somewhere on the schizo-spectrum, now I was officially dx with schizotypal PD.

My ADHD dx got removed.

So right now I'm diagnosed with:
Depression, Tourette's and schizotypal
also autistic tendencies and I'm also Transgender.

The schizotypal dx actually explains a lot. For a while I thought for a while that it could be schizoaffective, but my schizophrenic symptoms aren't severe enough and I'm also not Bipolar. My mood fluctuations was because of stress and hormonal changes.

That is an interesting disorder, I suspect my brother has that, and it would apply to the character Daniel Juster from Skippy Dies.

I guess it's totally underdiagnosed. About 3% of the population are supposed to have it and supposed to be one of the more common PDs. But it's not even that common diagnosed and there is not that much literature about it.

They needed in my case years to detect it and actually it shouldn't have been that difficult since they even knew that my half-brother had schizophrenia and schizotypal PD is one of the most common disorders from relatives of schizophrenics.

The thing is that schizotypal PD overlaps quite a bit with several other disorders and also schizotapals are able to hide their strange believes and ideas of references and know to some degree that they just exist in their head, unlike schizophrenics. Also I believe it hugely depends witch disorders are "modern" at the moment. I'm convinced that some disorders like Borderline PD or ADHD in children(!) are over-diagnosed.

Congrats.

I was diagnosed that at age 14, but currently I am not diagnosed with it, though schizotypal traits have been observed.

Thank you




Do you think the diagnosis was correct back then?
Even though I'm aware of many symptoms of the schizophrenic spectrum, I'm still not a 100% convinced and ask myself if they couldn't be explained otherwise!?
... but I don't have a better explanation myself. But I think I also have certain obsessve symptoms, bit I see them more in connection with Tourette's and paranoid thought patterns.