Unlike Schizophrenia, Schizoid Personality Disorder doesn't involve hallucinations or psychosis.
From the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual: "Schizoid individuals easily feel in danger of being engulfed, enmeshed, controlled, intruded upon, overstimulated, and traumatized - dangers that they associate with becoming involved with other people... Some schizoid people feel pain of an intensity so excruciating as to require their defensive detachment in order to avoid it."
I have Schizoid Personality Disorder.
I think what happened was that being chronically rejected in childhood made me suppress all desire for relationships (romantic or otherwise). Communicating with people is physically exhausting.
I feel bad for all the people I've hurt by ignoring them. Should I start admitting to people that I'm Schizoid (and explaining what it is) so they can understand that it's not them, it's me?
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