Loner’s Psychology: Mystery of Schizoid Personality (Intro to 6 Hour SEMINAR, link in description)

Happy New Year! May we all survive!

I was an outgoing child in the sense that I had many friends until I was eleven, and at that point everything changed, and from that point on I've had very few relationships. My husband, a narcissist, was antisocial, so that worked well for me. I've really only had 4 people in my life, a husband, sister, mother and father. 3 of the 4 were narcissists and the other suffered from schizophrenia. It is a relief to live alone although I need the companionship of animals.

Happy New Year to my favorite channel! I’m a therapist that has learned more here than any degree/book/lecture.

A bit out there. I’ve been listening to Sam for two years, and I am in no doubt that not only has this learning helped me to separate from my narcissistic style ex, but also helped me to remain sane and safe. What I have realised is that it’s all me. My ex narcissist never actually existed! This is a moment for me that I realise, yes, physically there was a presence, but who he was, was me. I constructed him, I made him up, he was a figment of my imagination. Everything I thought he was, was my own ideal.

Professor Vaknin I am 72. I just learned the racket of being a victim. I am not a victim I did want love . I now understand that I am a bad object. Thank you so much for giving out this information. You are truly healing alot of people with this information. I can now come from understanding and I bet there alot of people like me that this information you are explaining.

Dear Prof, thank you for this excellent introduction into the schizoid personality; I look forward to your seminar. This subject has interested me for many years, and I believe that I have some traits which are becoming more noticeable with age. I am sending you my warmest wishes for a peaceful and healthy 2024, along with my most sincere thanks for all the wisdom and insights that you so generously share with us.

That's me, you just don't want to be with people and you can happily spend all of Christmas and New Year all by yourself. It sounds strange and I'm pretty sure my neighbours know 'something is up with me'. But in society out and about I can mask it really well. It's not that as a 'zoid' we loathe people, rather, we recognize the stresses and strains and the mental anguish that people can bestow on us in being around them and having to deal with them. Understand that we mean you 'normies' no harm or ill whatsoever and we are not envious of your so called well adjusted 'social lives'. Understand that you must not confuse schizophrenics with schizoids, they are very different things. Also I get a tad offended by people stating that being Schizoid is a 'personality disorder' - I say in these days it is an adventage with the broader vast swathes of loneliness out there - we can cope really well with it given the circumstances. Lockdown didn't affect us much. There are 'some' down sides i.e. you don't tend to have a great friends and family support network and you won't have a family legacy but I can live with that - for the time being at least. I must also state an interesting this in that my biological father who never raised me after the age of 5 but unfortunately I saw roughly 5 days on average peryear 30 years after age of 5 is a fully fledged toxic narcassist. So maybe there is a genetic link between betwen Schzoids and toxic narcassists. Thanks for putting a lense on this topic professor.

My therapist initially thought I had a Schizoid personality. Turns out I am autistic instead, which caused the personality. It all changed after I met my first partner, an amazing person, our separation and my healing from it.

"The partner is perceived as a cost of the intellectual stimulation", that's so true!

Celebrating new year with Proff Sam. It's not a great feeling but I've no option but to stay alone. Not happy not sad but content accepting life as it is. Schizoid wishing everyone a very happy New year.

I have not heard anyone speak so clearly on disorders than i have heard from Prof. Sam Vaknin. thank you for the clarity and in depth knowledge on all ive heard from you the past 3 years of my life. thank you Sam.

WOW this man told me all I ever'v been LOL. Even mouthing common reactions from others🥳SUCH GOOD EXPLAINATIONS, DR

Your definition of schizoid being indecipherable, a person that cannot be decode, really hits me. I feel I'm a mystery to myself and to others. My best friend, the person who I most shared intimate inf about me, once said to me that sometimes he feel like I'm a stranger, like he doesn't know who I am. This is so fuckin' depressive.

I am very grateful my Narc is no longer walking around with the mortal souls

Happy New Year Sam. All the best to you. Learned a lot from you again this year, more to come hopefully:).

Professor, thank you for your work this year! This is my best year so far in terms seeing the truth around me. 🎉

You and your channel helped me save my life. Literally. I am forever grateful.

Happy new year! Thx for sharing the knowledge!

Looking forward to this thank you. A fascinating topic about a condition that is practically a blank slate so far as public awareness goes.

Happy New year, thank you for all the education and making it interesting anc entertaining too ✨✨✨