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
FROM PUBMED
The world-wide medical research
reports chosen for each diagnosis
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PubMed article’s summary-abstract.
- Feeling close to others? Social cognitive mechanisms of intimacy in personality disordersby Chiara De Panfilis on November 1, 2024
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- Associations between neurolinguistic deficits and personality traits in people with epilepsyby Nikitas Floros on October 31, 2024
INTRODUCTION: People with epilepsy (PWE) have been hypothesized to have higher prevalence of personality disorders and cognitive disorders. The objective of this study was to investigate the controversial notion of "epileptic personality," a series of supposedly specific personality traits of people with epilepsy (PWE).
- Sustained Symptomatic Remission and Recovery and Their Loss Among Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder and Patients With Other Types of Personality Disorders: A 24-Year Prospective Follow-Up Studyby Mary C Zanarini on October 31, 2024
Objectives: The first purpose of this study was to determine time to attainment of symptomatic remissions and recoveries of 2-12 years duration for those with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and patients with other personality disorders (OPDs); the second was to determine the stability of these outcomes.
- Leveraging normative personality data and machine learning to examine the brain structure correlates of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder traitsby Allison L Moreau on October 31, 2024
Brain structure correlates of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) remain poorly understood as limited OCPD assessment has precluded well-powered studies. Here, we tested whether machine learning (ML; elastic net regression, gradient boosting machines, support vector regression with linear and radial kernels) could estimate OCPD scores from personality data and whether ML-predicted scores are associated with indices of brain structure (cortical thickness and surface area and...