CloudShark wrote:I do worry about having a PD though. Not StPD. My main issue is with being a recluse and very socially anxious. That causes real difficulties.
by definition, it doesn't make sense to worry about having a pd (unless you didn't mean it so literally). if you do worry about having a pd, then your actual problem with that is an anxiety disorder (which is clearly the actual problem of a large portion of people who post in these forums trying to figure out what pd they have, or convinced that they do have xyzpd)
because it's simply not something to worry about. if you have a pd, then knowing about it just makes it easier for you to work around your issues related to it. it's not a sentence of anything, because it's not an actual disease. pd's aren't even an explanation. they're only a description, like oneringer said