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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]
Gynophobia should not generally be confused with misogyny, the hatred, contempt for and prejudice against women, [2] [3] although some may use the terms interchangeably, in reference to the social, rather than pathological aspect of negative attitudes towards women. [4] The antonym of misogyny is philogyny, the love, respect for and admiration ...
Jiang slowly desensitized himself from the shame and fear he felt around rejection. It inspired Panning to try it herself, and she documented a 30-day rejection-therapy challenge on her TikTok ...
The term femmephobia is a combination of the word femme, a French term meaning woman, and the suffix "-phobia," which signifies fear or aversion. In modern usage, "femme" refers to individuals who express or identify with femininity, regardless of their gender identity.
Fear, believe it or not, has gotten a bad rap. So says Farnoosh Torabi, author of the new book “A Healthy State of Panic." Q&A: Why a 'healthy state of panic' is nothing to fear [Video]
Getting over the fear of these supposed failures is at the core of rejection therapy, a self-help game that encourages you to put yourself in the position to be rejected as a means of ...
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 ...
However, some research has suggested that the symptoms of hysteroid dysphoria manifest differently across men and women. [18] The degree of rejection sensitivity in participants was measured using a ‘rejection sensitive questionnaire’ and attitudes towards intimacy were identified using a ‘fear of intimacy scale’.