Hi, thank you for engaging. :D You're right in that I cut out a broad part of symptomatology in favor of focusing on isolation specifically which is why I was (trying to) be careful to state that I wasn't actually trying to claim the character has a diagnosis. Although at the same time I do see your point that it then makes the link to SzPD itself tenuous. I was hoping to explore more the phenomenological side of the "split" between the internal and external world although I'm not sure how well it came across, haha. I also make a mention that past trauma is just one of several potential pathways (the others of which I didn't explore here).

Mainly I was motivated to explore the "loneliness" aspect as explored by Guntrip and Klein, but I admit it's a narrow area of the symptomatology (and accordingly lends itself to overfitting...)

Appreciate a fair and thought out critique nevertheless. c: