Schizotypal Personality Disorder

My character is named Tyler Cowart. A 25 year old male with Schizotypal Personality Disorder. As a child, Tyler was never good with his family. He always preferred to stay secluded in his room, working on his own projects. Whenever his family would attempt to spend time together, Tyler would wholeheartedly refuse. It eventually got to the point where his family would start forcing Tyler into being a part of the family. They would take away what little hobbies he had, and told him that if he was going to spend time alone, he was going to do it without anything to do. In school, Tyler had an even worse time. He could never do work in groups. Trying to socialize would throw him into fits of anxiety, which would result in him either having extreme fits of rage, or extreme fits of sadness. While Tyler would be in class, he would never be actively engaged in what was going on. He would always be off in his own little world, having very vivid daydreams and talking to himself, almost as if he thought these daydreams were reality. As a result of this, Tyler had to be withdrawn from public school. He was placed in an online homeschooling program, where he could do his work alone and in peace. Life seemed to be looking up for Tyler at this point. He had somewhat restored his social life buy talking to people online, and putting him into online homeschool allowed him to get an education with somewhat decent grades.

Everything changed when Tyler entered adolescence. Since he wasn’t around “normal” social environments, he never had anyone to talk too about things happening to his body. He started to develop weird theories that he had been exposed to toxic radiation sometime as a child, and this is why things like this were happening to his bo...

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...rson’s symptoms are mild to moderate, he or she may be able to adjust with little support. If the symptoms are more severe, a person with this disorder may have more difficulty maintaining a job or even living independently. These feats are usually overcome by having lots of support from family members and doing jobs that require a good deal of structure and requires little to no social interaction..

Unfortunately, few with this disorder rarely seek treatment for it due to their distorted perception of the world around them and the people inside of it. If they do manage to seek treatment, it is usually for a related disorder, such as depression or anxiety.

Schizotypal Personality Disorder is usually a long-term (chronic) illness. Outcome of the treatment varies based on the severity of the disorder. Due to the lack of people seeking treatment for this disorder,