I never had to get blood work done for my evaluation of AvPD. All I had to do was a questionnaire/test. The test, along with the discussion with a psychologist verified my AvPD. Generally, my AvPD developed from years of bullying in Junior High level of school. This resulted in avoiding social settings, fear of rejection causing anxiety during tests, interviews, assessments at the workplace...any situation that elads to another's judgment of me.

When I get a bad report from a boss or if I am told of a mistake I made at work, I become very stressed about it and have to learn to relax, breathe, and control distorted thinking patterns. http://sourcesofinsight.com/10-disto...king-patterns/

Meanwhile, I found that simply acknowledging when my thought patterns are taking over, and being able to counter the thought patterns, has helped a lot. Nor do I tell myself anymore that I should be better than I am. The most important person to help me recover or manage this is myself. I will occasionally reach out to an external source to help control the anxiety when it happens, like calling tele-nurse, but the thought patterns are the biggest challenge and the knowledge of the distorted thought patterns have helped me most.