What are the treatments for schizotypal personality disorder?

What are the treatments for schizotypal personality disorder?

Rhoda Hahn (Psychiatrist) gives expert video advice on: What are the signs of schizotypal personality disorder?; What causes schizotypal personality disorder? and more...

Patients with schizotypal personality disorder can become extremely anxious and/or depressed and may actually benefit from trials of antidepressant medication. Whether or not they're going to present for treatment or not is a whole other thing and they're probably reluctant to do so. There aren't any known specific treatments though for the personality disorder itself. They can also become transiently psychotic when they're under great stress, becoming more overtly paranoid. In which case, for that brief period of time for the acute episode, they may benefit from low dose anti-psychotic medication as well.