News of Avoidant Personality Disorder Forum

This is either an obvious yes or no, I'm not quite sure what. 4 years ago I stopped hanging out with my tight knit group of friends to play World of Warcraft. I played for a year, then stopped and tried to get back into the group. I had become quite the proud "non-conformist" punk guy, which was kind of just trying to be unlike idiots. They became the idiots out of a need to ...

I have never gotten close to people, and I never understood why. I've always just had this instinct to not open up to anyone, and to remain guarded. Even as a KID when I had friends, I remember never getting close or emotional with them. I even remember once in 5th grade where all the other girls were crying because it was the last day of school, and we'd all be going to new classes.... ...

Hi, 20 year old male here, who has been struggling the last few years of his life. I was trying to self diagnose what was wrong with me by surfing through wikipedia pages on different disorders, i thought the page on social anxiety disorder fit me fairly well, when i clicked the link to avoidance personality disorder and it hit me like a bullet. I felt like the page was describing me, every symptom and ...

Should I be diagnosed with AvPD? I'm a seventeen year old male currently undergoing an early college program at the community college nearby. Even now, I hate myself for writing this because I think that I am just trying to find an excuse for my own lack of doing well in school. My last face to face conversation with any of my "friends" was 6 months ago at a store where we happened to bump ...

Hi,

I'm new on here and joined this site because I am depserately trying to figure out what is wrong with me! I have clinical depression and anxiety issues, I know that, but there seems to be more.

I read the write-up on APD as I have always been suspicious that I had it. Everything I read rang true for me. I do not like social interaction - period. Up to now, my life has ...

Ok, so I was Mirtazapine 45mg (Remeron) and I stupidly came off it thinking I was feeling better, that lasted a month or so. Now I'm feeling a definite relapse coming on.

I'm going to speak to the phsycatrist next week and finding out what options I have in regards to medication (the Mirtazapine was fairly good, but was causing weight gain) But I was just interested to hear from others what medication has helped ...

I'd like to just vent for a moment or two, as my world was turned upside down today.. It turns out on top of my original diagnosis of AVPD its also likely that I have a mood disorder- bipolar type2/ rapid cycling.
This was only discovered after my psychiatrist prescribed me paroxetine for depression and anxiety. I had suffered a complete meltdown and mixed episode. I was extremely high and yet had reached my lowest ...

Hi all,

There is something I have been using that helped me alot . Been using it for just over two months with really nice and rapid results. And Im positive that it can help you as well .

What am I talking about? Its called eft wicth stands for emotional freedom techinque

In essence, EFT is an emotional version of acupuncture wherein we stimulate certain meridian points by tapping on them with our fingertips. ...

This is copied from "Ever feel". It starts off depressing, but keep reading:

Sometimes I feel the same way too. Just last week I was pretty much resigned to my fate of eventually dying miserable and alone. That week I had a phone call with my mom and she could tell I was feeling really really down (I didn't mention I was feeling suicidal)) and she tried to encourage me.

The whole time I was ...

I am a seventeen-year-old girl about to graduate. I believe I have Avoidant Personality Disorder. By the way, this is going to be like, a novel. So please bear with me; I've got some venting to do.

I've always felt out of place around my family, including the immediate members. As a baby, I was born with a handful of health issues. For one, I was extremely tiny and had to stay in the hospital ...