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Me two wrote:^what they said.
here you're lucky to get past doctor level. and general practitioners... meh the clue is in the title. I saw a therapist for a year and for me it was the biggest waste of time. I wasn't actually addressing anything to do with avpd and was hiding that whole aspect of myself away from him. also caused a lot of anxiety to have to go talk to someone for an hour. he did lots of tests can't remember which, not dsm, I had extreme results and was really looking for a badge diagnosis, like oh this is what you have but it was inconclusive. no mention of pds. plus I refused to talk about my childhood or parents as that's a total cliche, however that would have been the most beneficial. stumbled upon avpd and was absolutely stoked. so I am self-labelled, and correctly so, as I don't need someone who is really bad at their job to tell me what is wrong with me when I don't even express the full picture and they have limited knowledge based on which books they got their degree with. mostly. in my opinion.
lilyfairy wrote:I was clinically diagnosed a few years ago. Initially they thought BPD, and social phobia. The social phobia, yes, and I have BPD traits, (and some very strong Dependent PD traits) but the AvPD has become clearer and clearer as time's gone on.
The reason is that I hid a lot of stuff from her initially and explained it by saying that I didn't want to appear crazy. She took it to heart. But she was mistaken, for me it was a relief to be diagnosed, at least now I can put all blame on the disorder and not on me just being a naturally deficient human being.
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