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  2. Avoidant personality disorder - Wikipedia

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    Avoidant personality disorder (AvPD), or anxious personality disorder, 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]

  3. List of phobias - Wikipedia

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    The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...

  4. What Is Stonewalling? Here’s What You Need to Know ... - AOL

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    Stonewalling is an unhealthy communication pattern in which one partner refuses to engage during an argument. Experts weigh in why it happens and how to fix it. What Is Stonewalling?

  5. Counterphobic attitude - Wikipedia

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    Contrary to the avoidant personality disorder, the counterphobic represents the less usual, but not totally uncommon, response of seeking out what is feared. [2] Codependents may fall into a subcategory of this group, hiding their fears of attachment in over-dependency. [3]

  6. Stonewalling - Wikipedia

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    Stonewalling is a refusal to communicate or cooperate. Such behaviour occurs in situations such as marriage counselling , diplomatic negotiations , politics and legal cases. [ 1 ] Body language may indicate and reinforce this by avoiding contact and engagement with the other party. [ 2 ]

  7. List of manias - Wikipedia

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    Hypermania – severe mania—mental state with high intensity disorientation and often violent behavior, symptomatic of bipolar disorder (hyper- (Greek) meaning abnormal excess) Hypomania – mild mania—mental state with persistent and pervasive elevated or irritable mood, symptomatic of bipolar disorder (hypo- (Greek) meaning deficient)

  8. Attachment in adults - Wikipedia

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    Fearful-avoidant attachment patterns of behavior are demonstrated by those possessing an unstable or fluctuating view of self and others. [22] People with losses or other trauma, such as abuse in childhood and adolescence, may develop this type of attachment [28] and tend to agree with the following statements: [23]

  9. Social anxiety disorder - Wikipedia

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    Social anxiety disorder (SAD), also known as social phobia, is an anxiety disorder characterized by sentiments of fear and anxiety in social situations, causing considerable distress and impairing ability to function in at least some aspects of daily life.