Group therapy for AvPD

I saw someone in another thread metion group therapy. Is there group therapy for AvPD? I would think that people with AvPD would not be likely to show up. I don't think I would if the group was bigger than 7 or 8 people.

If I ever went to a psychiatrist and he suggested group therapy, I probably wouldn't go. To me, it's just like exposure therapy. Maybe it would work for some people, but probably not me.

A psychiatrist would just give you drugs. That's all they seem to do. I am not sure what a psychologist would do. Possibly suggest group therapy. It would be like exposure therapy. Gradual exposure to things seems to work for me in most things.

I'm not sure. Since you're meeting with a group of people who have the same trouble as you, there's no way you can fear rejection...


But from what I can see on that forum, even though everyone shares the same fear and/or disability in socializing, there's many different types of personnality here: depressed(even suicidal)- angry - sarcastic - sensitive - obsessive - all of the above - some seems more content and others have more success in some other part of their life. So maybe group therapy wouldn't work with people having too different temperament and/or background.

But we often see group therapy that makes progress when there's some friction between participants so different people might be not all bad also...

Parador,
I actually spent a good 5 years in consistent one on one therapy, and virtually never made any changes. It wasn't until I was in group treatment that I got a chance to practice all the skills they teach in a safe setting. It was pretty much like Gsf said, in that the friction was real, and not role playing between myself and a therapist. I would recommend it to anyone suffering chronically from mental illness.

How big was the group Pink? I would not like a big group.

I think the largest the group ever got was maybe 8 or 9, including myself. But usually it stayed around 5 or 6.