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What is the difference between clinical depression and schizoid personality disorder?

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Dr. Alan Ali answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Depression: Both can show avoidance and withdrawal and isolation with blunted affect, but depression also shows vegetative symptoms such as change in sleep/appetite/energy , and thoughts of despair &self-harm.

Answered 6/28/2015

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Mood: Depression is a mood disorder involving sadness, emptiness, withdrawal, and anhedonia, among other symptoms. Schizoid PD is all about indifference to interpersonal relationships.

Answered 2/28/2015

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