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Aug 24, 2011, 09:35 PM
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Member Since: May 2005
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Posts: 350
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Originally Posted by Rose76
If you did have APD (or trait), that wouldn't rule out having some other major issue
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There is always other crap, yanno? I've got a history of abuse & neglect, a dysfunctional family, and depression.
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To me, there is something so different between avoiding people and avoiding emotional states, that I think it would be unlikely that both of these are being generated by the same factor.
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Most of what makes me avoid other people is because of the emotional connections. I do have a ton of self-analytical, self-monitoring discomfort - I never say anything off the cuff or spontaneously - I always plan everything out a few sentences ahead of time. There's always an underlying feeling that anyone who wants to get to know me has ulterior motives - as though they are setting me up for a huge, humiliating practical joke at my expense.
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This may not be where you'll find exactly the answers you are looking for (I think the kind of resources you would like to find have yet to be produced)
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That's one of the first things I've found out about avoidance personality typing & APD - it is under-resourced & under-researched compared to the other personality types & disorders. It shares so many traits with other problems, like social anxiety, general anxiety, various phobias, the Autism spectrum, & has even been added onto schizophrenia & schizoidal disorders.
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