This is a real-world medical entrance exam question, please give the true answer based on the question and selection. Topic name: Personality Disorders, Subject name: Psychiatry
[{'content': 'Characteristics finding of schizoid personality is: \nSelect and explain. \nA. Emotional coldness, B. Conversion disorder, C. Not concerned with disease or anything, D. Check details of all things', 'role': 'user'}, {'content': 'Answer: A \nExplanation: Ans. is \'a\' Emotional coldness Characterstics of Schizoid type of personality disordercan be best understood with help of an example * A 40 yr old scientist lives alone, has no contact with his family, does not have any friends. He has never engaged in any social activities. He prefers to work alone at home and cannot name any hobbies or activities that he finds enjoyable. He has limited capacity to express either warm tender feelings or anger (emotionally cold)Thus its a " Voluntary social withdrawal without psychosis"- Vignettes, behaviour sciences.A closely related type of personality disorder is avoidant personality disorder.Avoidant Personality disorderExample : A 23 yr old male complains of having too few friends and an unreasonable fear of new experiences, he tells that his shyness has frequently participating in social activities.The main difference b/w avoidant personality disorder and schizoid personality disorder is that schizoid individuals are happy being alone, whereas avoidant individuals are distressed by their loneliness.', 'role': 'assistant'}]