Avoidant Personality Disorder Resource Center

This information is all very eye opening and sadly fits me very well.
Thanks for the link to that website Skog. This will save me a lot of time searching for stuff in the library.

Dragonfly.

Wow, thanks Skog. I've just started reading but it's fascinating. I see myself in the descriptions so much it sends chills up my spine.

Thanks for that info, TheLonelyStranger! I've been googling social phobia, social ineptitude, etc, and I was so relieved to find this forum! It seems that AvPD is not very well known--in my psychology textbook, there is only one paragraph on the 'avoidant' cluster of personality disorders, and a lot more information on other personality disorders.

Thank you for this. VERY useful information!

waht do I do, I have tried so many things, and many unsuccessful therapies I am so tired of living like this I can't be alone like this anymore

I am part of a spiritual group that is great and was making progress but then felt intense rejection from the guru when I exposed my deep depp pain and couldn't stop crying and have been totally self destructive ever since

How can I handle this, I feel terrible about myself all the time, and in my head, fantasizing and cannot stop, which makes me feel worse and ineffective; the fantasizing seems to make everything worse, makes me feel even more unable to function in the real world and with real people

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Anyway.....

Another comparison of AvPD vs. Social Anxiety (I've probably posted it somewhere else)

http://www.anxietyhelp.org/information/avpd_vs_sad.html

"Avoidants tend to have low self-esteem & believe that they are
unworthy of being ín successful relationships. They are also very
self-conscious, frequently lonely & see their accomplishments as
being of little or no worth (Millon & Everly)."

I think this pretty much sums it up for me personnaly. Wish the was a medication that one could take to fight agaiinst this.