schizotypal personality disorder
noun
variants
or schizotypal personality
: a personality disorder characterized by peculiar or eccentric thoughts, behaviors, and patterns of speech, odd beliefs or fantasies, disturbances in the perception of events, difficulty in forming or maintaining close relationships, and a tendency to be suspicious or paranoid
Individuals with a condition called schizotypal personality disorder have mild versions of some schizophrenia symptoms, such as slight paranoia or jumpy speech patterns, but not the hallucinations and delusions that characterize serious forms of the disease.—Anna Gosline
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