News of Avoidant Personality Disorder Forum

I was at another forum and they had one of those online personality quizzes. Now, I usually take those with a grain of salt, but I scored a high level of Avoident Personality Disorder. After doing some research, I find that I "fit in" with that. I'm no doctor and I'm not trying to Diagnose myself, but I followed a link here. I've read a few of the posts and quite a few people have ...

Here's the situation:

My good friend A has moved on from me, widening her circle of friends and I was pleased for her. When I told my mum that (she wanted to know what I had been chatting about on the phone), my mum said, don't be so naive and think that your friend would only have time for you, people are growing up and are having more friends (since we're at uni now). The ...

A forum for . . . AVOIDANT people? It took me a week to get around to posting a hello message. Because, of course, I expect I can't write something clever enough, no one will care, you are all a bunch of tricky people, yada-avoidant-yada-yada.

Okay, it's not that bleak. I really am having a chuckle here. So I decided to just share my precious little avoidant feelings of the moment instead of subjecting you ...

clonazepam? therapy? anything? I just feel doomed...

Hi--I'm new here and trying to understand an APD friend. I hope you can give me some insight.

This guy gave me heavy attraction "signals" in class. The few times he sat next to me he was up and down multiple times which appeared to be from nervousness. Very nervous hellos initiated by him at every break eventually turned into nervous then not-so nervous talks. I initiated and drove him home a couple times. We ...

I don't know if this has been asked before, but I was wondering if people were left or right handed, and what they feel the diagnosis they struggle the most with.

I'm a lefty. I have major depression with psychosis, ptsd with panic, trich, mild ocd, and avoidant pd, but i think the hardest one to deal with is the AvPD right now.

What exactly is the difference between these two? I'm confused because it doesn't seem like my doctor asked all that many questions he just said to take clonazepam for the anxiety. Anybody know?

Ps- thanks to everyone who supported me while I was trying to reveal my problems to my doctor!

There is this other internet forum I'm active on, about a subject not directly related to AvPD. I've been participating there for a few months now and during that time I've developed a strong interest in one of the posters. He's not a very active poster (though compared to me, he is), but whatever he writes, I read. And I like what I read: often he's joking around, but occasionally he lets through some of ...

I'm being treated right now for bipolar disorder... how do I bring up my avoidant symptoms? I'm so afraid he's going to think I'm lying or make fun of me or just tell me I'm wrong or something! I don't know if I can bring it up but I just feel so so lonely and afraid and I'm supposed to go back to a new college in a few weeks and I don't know if ...

Do any of you feel that? It's more than being down, more than being depressed, it's more than anything and yet...it's absolute nothing. I'm talking about that internal emptiness. It starts simply enough. Seeing nice girls or guys, wanting to meet them, know them, fall in love with them but knowing you're way off their radar screens. You crave intimacy but back down because you can't handle it. It shakes your bones and rips through ...