F60.1: Schizoid personality disorder

You are withdrawing from the world around you. You are also only able to express feelings with difficulty.

Everyone has personal characteristics that are deeply rooted. The personality involves certain patterns: how one things, feels and behaves. Personal characteristic patterns can exist that can cause problems in one’s work and social environment. This usually happens when behavioral patterns and thought patterns differ greatly from those of the majority of the population.

Your personality has changed. With this disorder the person withdraws from their surrounds. The person is unable to express feelings very well. The person may be labeled a loner and prefer to do things alone. The person is unable to feel emotions such as joy and anger as strongly as other people. The person has few close, trusting relationships. The person likes to be in a fantasy world.

Additional indicator

On medical documents, the ICD code is often appended by letters that indicate the diagnostic certainty or the affected side of the body.

  • G: Confirmed diagnosis
  • V: Tentative diagnosis
  • Z: Condition after
  • A: Excluded diagnosis
  • L: Left
  • R: Right
  • B: Both sides

Further information

Note

This information is not intended for self-diagnosis and does not replace professional medical advice from a doctor. If you find an ICD code on a personal medical document, please also note the additional indicator used for diagnostic confidence.
Your doctor will assist you with any health-related questions and explain the ICD diagnosis code to you in a direct consultation if necessary.

Source

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