 My name is Sam Beigny. I am the author of Malignance and Flava, Narcissism Revisited. Patients with Schizoid Personality Disorder, or Schizoids for short, enjoy nothing. They seemingly never experience pleasure. This is known as anhedonia. Even their nearest and dearest describe them as automata, robots, or machines. But the Schizoid is not depressed or dysphoric. It is merely indifferent. Schizoids are uninterested in social relationships, and they are bored and puzzled by interpersonal reactions and interactions. They are incapable of intimacy, and they have a very limited range of emotions and effect. Rarely does the Schizoid express feelings, either negative, such as anger, or positive, such as happiness. Schizoids never pursue an opportunity to develop a close relationship. Schizoids are mostly aid-sexual. They are not interested in sex. Consequently, they appear to be called aloof, bland, stunted, flat, and zombie-like. Sexually, they are neuters. They derive no satisfaction from belonging to a close-need group, a family, church, workplace, neighborhood, or nation. They rarely marry or have children. Schizoids are loners. Given the option, they invariably pursue solitary activities or hobbies. Inevitably, they prefer mechanical or abstract tasks and jobs that require such skills and grumble the loneliness and the isolation that they seek. Many computer hackers, crackers, and programmers are Schizoids, for instance, as are some mathematicians and theoretical physicists. Schizoids are inflexible in their reactions to changing life circumstances and developments, both adverse and opportune. Faced with stress, Schizoids may disintegrate, decompensate, and experience brief psychotic episodes, or even a depressive illness. Schizoids have few friends or confidants. They trust only first-degree relatives. But even so, they maintain no close bonds or associations, not even with their immediate family. Schizoids pretend to be indifferent to praise, criticism, disagreement, and corrective advice. Though deep inside, they are not. Schizoids are creatures of habit, frequently succumbing to rigid, predictable, and narrowly restricted routines and schedules. From the outside, the Schizoids' life looks rudderless and adrift. Like people with Asperger's syndrome, Schizoids fail to respond appropriately to social cues and rarely reciprocate gestures or facial expressions such as smiles. As the diagnostic and statistical manual puts it, Schizoids seem socially inept or superficial and self-absorbed. Be sure to watch the video which compares narcissists to Schizoids. It is available in my channel.