Avoidant Personality Disorder
Avoidant personality disorder (AVPD) is an enduring pattern of behavior related to social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and sensitivity to rejection that causes problems in work situations and relationships.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: W019
Diagnosis: Avoidant Personality Disorder
US Patients: US-2.4%
World Patients:
Sex Ratio: M; F Equal
Age Onset:
Brain Area:
Symptoms: terrible fear of rejections, avoid social interaction
Progression: Unable to experience or express positive emotion to others or resist coercion from others.
Causes: Genetic shyness, inhibitions, childhood emotional neglect; fears intimacy and rejection
Medications:
Therapies: social skills training; cognitive, exposure and group therapies
Youtube Video: I Have Avoidant Personality Disorder
Amazon or Library Book: Overcoming Avoidance Workbook
Click the book to link or order from Amazon.
Support Group: avoidantpersonality.com (This website sells books but also coordinates a Facebook support group.)
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Section 12.08.
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
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The world-wide medical research
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- Stress, Anxiety, and Depression in the First-year Students of Medical Education: A Prospective Cohort Study from a Women's Medical College in South Indiaby Ganesh Kumar Mallaram on November 21, 2024
CONCLUSION: Students showed a striking rise in psychological distress six months after joining medical school. This suggests that the medical school environment could play a role. To meet students' needs, a change in medical school culture and the provision of accessible and flexible mental health services are required.
- A computational signature of self-other mergence in Borderline Personality Disorderby Giles W Story on November 20, 2024
A tendency to merge mental representations of self and other is thought to underpin the intense and unstable relationships that feature in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). However, clinical theories of BPD do not specify, in computational terms, how the perspectives of self and other might become confused. To address this question, we used a probabilistic false belief task (p-FBT) to examine how individuals with BPD (N = 38) and matched controls from the general population (N = 74)...
- Associations Between Both Adaptive and Maladaptive Personality Constructs and Emotional Load and Content of Adult Dreamsby Saeid Komasi on November 20, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: The emotional load and content of dreams are significantly related to both specific constructs and spectrum factors of adaptive and maladaptive personalities. Psychologists can refer to personality profiles when analysing the emotional load and content of dreams of adults.
- Personality Dimension, Suicidal Intent, and Lethality: A Cross-sectional Study of Suicide Attempters with or Without Personality Disordersby Amruti Sahoo on November 20, 2024
CONCLUSION: It is important to explore the personality dimension of the suicide attempters, along with PD, that may highlight additional risks and suggest the need for specific support.