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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]
In a 2012 study of a sample of 54 young adults with Asperger syndrome, it was found that 26% of them also met criteria for SPD, the highest comorbidity out of any personality disorder in the sample (the other comorbidities were 19% for obsessive–compulsive personality disorder, 13% for avoidant personality disorder and one female with ...
Pathological demand avoidance (PDA), or extreme demand avoidance (EDA), is a proposed mental disorder characterized by greater-than-typical refusal to comply with requests or expectations—demand avoidance—and extreme efforts to avoid social demands. [1]
People with the disorder have a few things in common. Their feelings of inadequacy and a hypersensitivity to criticism can be isolating. This Is What It Feels Like to Live With Avoidant ...
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Dimensional models are intended to reflect what constitutes personality disorder symptomology according to a spectrum, rather than in a dichotomous way.As a result of this they have been used in three key ways; firstly to try to generate more accurate clinical diagnoses, secondly to develop more effective treatments and thirdly to determine the underlying etiology of disorders.
A spectrum disorder is a disorder that includes a range of linked conditions, sometimes also extending to include singular symptoms and traits.The different elements of a spectrum either have a similar appearance or are thought to be caused by the same underlying mechanism.
The internalizing spectrum includes some signs and symptoms of such disorders as major depressive disorder, dysthymia, generalized anxiety disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, borderline personality disorder, agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, specific phobias, anorexia nervosa, binge eating ...