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Originally Posted by BreakForTheLight
. . . I want to make sure that the therapist I go to is familiar with AvPD because I've had therapists before who treated it as social phobia and that only made things worse.
When I do a search for therapist specialized in personality disorders, I end up with mostly therapists not covered by insurance, and I can't afford to pay for it myself. . .
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I live in the USA and have had a terrible time trying to find a therapist who could help me even after somebody finally diagnosed Personality Disorder Not Otherwise Specified.
My personal experience, and online research, is that therapists don't know how to help much with personality disorders. Can you point to some specific things in your life that you would like help with? As long as you and the therapist acknowledge the AvPD at the outset, then if you and the therapist aren't too focused on trying to change the AvPd itself, that might work out better? Maybe, too, you could just luck into a "good fit", whatever that may be. I haven't had much of a clue what that is because of my personality disorder. :-( But "they say" that's important, too.
In case you don't know, there is a subforum on the Personality Place forum here on PC for people with AvPD. They might have some ideas there, too.