Avoidant Personality Disorder

[Ahriman]

Is anyone familiar with APD? I have it, although I'm managing it rather well nowadays. But it really sucks, it makes you super paranoid and dis-trusting of people. 0/10 would not recommend.

[Anomalocaris]

Is anyone familiar with APD? I have it, although I'm managing it rather well nowadays. But it really sucks, it makes you super paranoid and dis-trusting of people. 0/10 would not recommend.

Why don’t you put your god given condition to good use and avoid this forum?

[Ahriman]

Is anyone familiar with APD? I have it, although I'm managing it rather well nowadays. But it really sucks, it makes you super paranoid and dis-trusting of people. 0/10 would not recommend.

Why don’t you put your god given condition to good use and avoid this forum?

What a useless response. Stay salty.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Is anyone familiar with APD? I have it, although I'm managing it rather well nowadays. But it really sucks, it makes you super paranoid and dis-trusting of people. 0/10 would not recommend.

Have you been to a doctor, or did you self-diagnose via something like WebMD?

Boru

[Belacqua]

Is anyone familiar with APD? I have it, although I'm managing it rather well nowadays. But it really sucks, it makes you super paranoid and dis-trusting of people. 0/10 would not recommend.

I'd never heard of this before. I'm sorry to hear you have to deal with this.

Here's the top of the Wikipedia page:

Avoidant personality disorder (AvPD) is a Cluster C personality disorder characterized by excessive social anxiety and inhibition, fear of intimacy(despite an intense desire for it), severe feelings of inadequacy and inferiority, and an overreliance on avoidance of feared stimuli (e.g. self-imposed social isolation) as a maladaptive coping method.[1] Those affected typically display a pattern of extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation and rejection, a belief that one is socially inept or personally unappealing to others, and avoidance of social interaction despite a strong desire for it.[2] It affects an approximately equal number of men and women.[3]

People with AvPD often avoid social interaction for fear of being ridiculed, humiliated, rejected, or disliked. They typically avoid becoming involved with others unless they are certain they will not be rejected, and may also pre-emptively abandon relationships due to a real or imagined fear that they are at risk of being rejected by the other party.[4]

Do you find that your anxiety is different in person than on the Internet? Because on this forum you don't seem to be overly anxious about being disliked. You come across as sort of inviting it, in fact. (Top level trolling.) But this could be another coping mechanism, I don't know.

[Ahriman]

Is anyone familiar with APD? I have it, although I'm managing it rather well nowadays. But it really sucks, it makes you super paranoid and dis-trusting of people. 0/10 would not recommend.

Have you been to a doctor, or did you self-diagnose via something like WebMD?

Boru

I have not been diagnosed by a doctor. But I don't need to be. I know I have it. The paranoia I feel speaks for itself.

[Ahriman]

Is anyone familiar with APD? I have it, although I'm managing it rather well nowadays. But it really sucks, it makes you super paranoid and dis-trusting of people. 0/10 would not recommend.

I'd never heard of this before. I'm sorry to hear you have to deal with this.

Here's the top of the Wikipedia page:

Avoidant personality disorder (AvPD) is a Cluster C personality disorder characterized by excessive social anxiety and inhibition, fear of intimacy(despite an intense desire for it), severe feelings of inadequacy and inferiority, and an overreliance on avoidance of feared stimuli (e.g. self-imposed social isolation) as a maladaptive coping method.[1] Those affected typically display a pattern of extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation and rejection, a belief that one is socially inept or personally unappealing to others, and avoidance of social interaction despite a strong desire for it.[2] It affects an approximately equal number of men and women.[3]

People with AvPD often avoid social interaction for fear of being ridiculed, humiliated, rejected, or disliked. They typically avoid becoming involved with others unless they are certain they will not be rejected, and may also pre-emptively abandon relationships due to a real or imagined fear that they are at risk of being rejected by the other party.[4]

Do you find that your anxiety is different in person than on the Internet? Because on this forum you don't seem to be overly anxious about being disliked. You come across as sort of inviting it, in fact. (Top level trolling.) But this could be another coping mechanism, I don't know.

Thank you for the narcissistic supply.

[Jehanne]

Have you been to a doctor, or did you self-diagnose via something like WebMD?

Boru

I have not been diagnosed by a doctor. But I don't need to be. I know I have it. The paranoia I feel speaks for itself.

Don't shop for a diagnosis. If you need help, see a licensed PhD psychologist and let him/her evaluate you. Be truthful in your session.

[arewethereyet]

If it's the truth, his mother is pretty high level in the medical field. He's never waivered on that detail.

Throwing out different diagnoses is a thing with Ahriman.

Did get a laugh out of Bel accusing someone else of 'top level trolling'.

[Ahriman]

If it's the truth, his mother is pretty high level in the medical field.  He's never waivered on that detail.  

Throwing out different diagnoses is a thing with Ahriman.

Did get a laugh out of Bel accusing someone else of 'top level trolling'.

My mom is (was) a nurse practitioner, and is now a dermatologist, with her own skin care clinic. Very type A sort of woman.