Schizotypal personality disorder involves an acute discomfort with, and reduced capacity for, close relationships, as well as eccentric behavior and distorted cognition or perception, indicated by at least five of the following:
Excessive social anxiety does not diminish with familiarity and tends to be associated with paranoid fears rather than negative judgments about self.
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