Questioning your Avoidance.

When I'm on one of my highs i can feel almost normal which makes me believe at the time that i might not be avoidant. Then my mood can switch in a instant and I'm back to being afraid. I'll get too afraid to go to a restaurant and get some food so i just sit at home and starve. So yea, i do question it but i always end up going back into my avoidant behavior so i stop questioning it.

Just because you have mental problems doesn't make you a loser. It's not like you can help the person you are. I was officially diagnosed with Social Anxiety Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by my psychiatrist a few weeks ago. I was too embarassed to ask him if there was a chance I might have AvPD. So I'm still unsure about that, but there's a possibility I do have it since I have so many of the co-morbid illnesses.

I was officially diagnosed with Social Anxiety Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by my psychiatrist a few weeks ago. I was too embarassed to ask him if there was a chance I might have AvPD. So I'm still unsure about that, but there's a possibility I do have it since I have so many of the co-morbid illnesses.

I have only been offically diagnosed with Social Anxiety Disorder and then put on meds. This was just by a family doctor. From reading the DSM-IV and forums like this one I know that AvPD is the best description of what I have. I don;t need vaildation from a doctor.

Has anyone seriously questioned whether they are Avoidant or not? I mean most of us are'nt even officially diagnosed. Sometimes I don't think I'm Avoidant at all rather I'm just a inherent loser.

I feel like I am genetically inferior to everyone. Sometimes i feel like i was cursed with this disorder because i am meant to be weeded out of the population.

Jessica's Hope wrote:

I was officially diagnosed with Social Anxiety Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by my psychiatrist a few weeks ago. I was too embarassed to ask him if there was a chance I might have AvPD. So I'm still unsure about that, but there's a possibility I do have it since I have so many of the co-morbid illnesses.

I have only been offically diagnosed with Social Anxiety Disorder and then put on meds. This was just by a family doctor. From reading the DSM-IV and forums like this one I know that AvPD is the best description of what I have. I don;t need vaildation from a doctor.

Has anyone seriously questioned whether they are Avoidant or not? I mean most of us are'nt even officially diagnosed. Sometimes I don't think I'm Avoidant at all rather I'm just a inherent loser.

I feel like I am genetically inferior to everyone. Sometimes i feel like i was cursed with this disorder because i am meant to be weeded out of the population.

Yeah, I didn't think my psychiatrist took me too seriously when I went. He just seemed like a know-it-all and just gave me a diagnosis. From reading the description of AvPD as well, I'm quite sure that there's a possibility I have it. When I first looked at the description, I was in shock at how much it related to me. It was nearly describing my entire self on a single page.

A real life Shinji wrote:I'm pretty sure I don't have social anxiety disorder. I know I have Avoidant Personality Disorder though and I also was shocked when I came across the wiki article last May.

I also think I am, in general, inferior to others and I hate myself because of it. My Mother really messed me up unintentionally and I had alot of peer rejection.

Same with me. My father has yelled at me almost my entire life to the point where I've cried because of it. I really don't think he has any idea what's going on in my life. Little does he know, he's making my disorder worse by yelling at me like that. I was also peer rejected as a kid and got told on by girls for something I never even did. This can relate a lot to my avatar pic, Yukinari.

A real life Shinji wrote:It seems alot of Avoidants enjoy anime but there is only one true fictional Avoidant and thats Shinji Ikari. Its just so transparent.
And yes, I can relate to that character alot.

Yeah, Yukinari's not an avoidant, he just developed a phobia of being touched by girls since he's been bullied by them his whole life for being short. But yeah, he relates to me a lot in some ways. I still can't believe you guys found out about Neon Genesis Evangelion before I did since Shinji can probably relate to all of us pretty well.

A real life Shinji wrote:

Yukinari wrote:

A real life Shinji wrote:It seems alot of Avoidants enjoy anime but there is only one true fictional Avoidant and thats Shinji Ikari. Its just so transparent.
And yes, I can relate to that character alot.

Yeah, Yukinari's not an avoidant, he just developed a phobia of being touched by girls since he's been bullied by them his whole life for being short. But yeah, he relates to me a lot in some ways. I still can't believe you guys found out about Neon Genesis Evangelion before I did since Shinji can probably relate to all of us pretty well.

What Anime is Yukinari from? Yeah. I wonder though does everyone else on here relate to him to the same degree as I do.
Even his "Non Avoidant issues" seem to resonate with me. I found out that he has AvPD in his wiki article shortly after I found out I was Avoidant. It was quite amusing as five years previously I saw the end of eva and it was as if the director must have known about me as Shinji is a very atypical fictional character.

Yukinari's from the anime Girls Bravo. It's a harem type anime with both dubs and subtitles whichever you prefer if you want to see it. I'm not convinced that I completely relate to Shinji yet since I've only seen the first 6 episodes, but he does have some common characteristics like me from what I've seen so far. In fact, I never knew about AvPD until about a month ago when I was looking up anime on wikipedia and came across the term "Hikikomori". At the bottom of the article it had links to some of the medical diagnoses for hikikomori behaviors, and Avoidant Personality Disorder happened to be one of them.

A real life Shinji wrote:

Yukinari wrote:

A real life Shinji wrote:

Yukinari wrote:

A real life Shinji wrote:It seems alot of Avoidants enjoy anime but there is only one true fictional Avoidant and thats Shinji Ikari. Its just so transparent.
And yes, I can relate to that character alot.

Yeah, Yukinari's not an avoidant, he just developed a phobia of being touched by girls since he's been bullied by them his whole life for being short. But yeah, he relates to me a lot in some ways. I still can't believe you guys found out about Neon Genesis Evangelion before I did since Shinji can probably relate to all of us pretty well.

What Anime is Yukinari from? Yeah. I wonder though does everyone else on here relate to him to the same degree as I do.
Even his "Non Avoidant issues" seem to resonate with me. I found out that he has AvPD in his wiki article shortly after I found out I was Avoidant. It was quite amusing as five years previously I saw the end of eva and it was as if the director must have known about me as Shinji is a very atypical fictional character.

Yukinari's from the anime Girls Bravo. It's a harem type anime with both dubs and subtitles whichever you prefer if you want to see it. I'm not convinced that I completely relate to Shinji yet since I've only seen the first 6 episodes, but he does have some common characteristics like me from what I've seen so far. In fact, I never knew about AvPD until about a month ago when I was looking up anime on wikipedia and came across the term "Hikikomori". At the bottom of the article it had links to some of the medical diagnoses for hikikomori behaviors, and Avoidant Personality Disorder happened to be one of them.

Yeah thats how most people come across it I would bet. I think that most Hikikomori are severe social phobes rather than Avoidants. Thats why I always related to Shinji more than the guy from welcome to the NHK. Shinji's social phobia is not that made, he can function and interact. But he just hates himself so much and is so insecure.

I don't really hate myself, I just wish that people wouldn't seem like they hate me so much. It's true that I can't talk to people without becoming extremely anxious, but I don't hate myself because of it.

I was diagnosed with schizophrenia, GAD, SAD, delusional disorder, AVPD years ago. There's no point in diagnoses. The shrinks who use them and have developed them are idiots. Look at the stuff they said about me. They had two years with me and didn't care whet I had. They just KNEW they had to pump me full of drugs though.

Parador wrote:I was diagnosed with schizophrenia, GAD, SAD, delusional disorder, AVPD years ago. There's no point in diagnoses. The shrinks who use them and have developed them are idiots. Look at the stuff they said about me. They had two years with me and didn't care whet I had. They just KNEW they had to pump me full of drugs though.

They put me on drugs too, and they've taken 5 hours out of my weekend from making me sleep. I don't like meds. -.-