Posted by Cindy W on June 13, 2000, at 8:48:38
In reply to Re: Avoidant personality disorder, posted by Theresa Pye on June 13, 2000, at 6:56:20
> I have Avoidant personality disorder too. I don't have any real social anxiety problems, I go in public, go to school, etc. I just tend to to try to avoid certain situations. For example conflict or confrontation with other people. I do tend to be more withdrawn though, and often would prefer no contact with anyone outside of my family.
> Theresa
> > > Hi all: I was just wondering if avoidant personality disorder is just a symptom of anxiety/depression or if it is a disorder in it's own right?
> >
> > It is a disorder in its own right. It is closely associated with social phobia. However it is generally considered more severe, that is, the avoidant pers. has little social functioning, very withdrawn.As another avoidant personality, I just wanted to say that not all are social phobic; I have to work with people all day, and I feel so tired, from worrying about what everybody's thinking and whether I'm doing OK, sometimes, that I think about becoming a computer programmer or something instead. It's not that we don't want or like contact with others, but that it's draining, because of the anxiety about our social functioning, I think (do they like me? do they think I'm strange? etc.). This has decreased for me with (in the past) Serzone and (now) Effexor-XR, although it isn't completely gone.
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