How many of you are officially diagnosed?

Yeah most people with AvPD tend to be diagnosed with social phobia if anything at all. I guess not many doctors know about it, so mostly information about it gets spread around the internet and people who've never felt like anyone understood them suddenely see a description of themselves for the first time. It makes me feel like we should somehow band together and actually do something about that, like start an international AvPD foundation or something.

I voted and will freely admit I'm self diagnosed. I remember when I was young (around 15-16) after I was already seeing a therapist for potentially having an eating disorder, I requested transfer because I thought I had depression. I remember after after 2 sessions, the next basically consisted of my therapist telling me he didn't believe me and almost berating me (all things being said though, with my emotional reaction to rejection it probably wasn't nearly as bad as I remember) but after that, I have no faith in bringing my problems forward and likely never will.

I have been diagnosed with AVPD,GAD,and Major Depression. I quit going to therypy because I felt like I wasn't getting anywhere. It's mostly my fault because I just couldn't tell him everything. I have alot of deep dark secrets.

I went to a psychologist when I was in the army and he diagnosed me with bi-polar. Then he sent me to a psychiatrist to get a prescription because psychologists can't write those. Then she (the psychiatrist) said I wasn't bi-polar I was just "eccentric". The moral of the story is that not even the shrinks know what they are doing half the time.