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Old Dec 14, 2017, 02:02 AM
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Originally Posted by seesaw View Post
Does anyone else experience this? My biggest complaints are GAD, depression and PTSD. A symptom or coping behavior of all three of those is avoidance. I was trying to figure out why I spent the last 3 months in bed, and I realized that in everything that I did or didn't do, I was being avoidant. I suspect that I may have Avoidant Personality Disorder, but it really doesn't matter. I need to overcome these issues of anxiety and fear and not avoid things. I thought that perhaps the reason I procrastinated some things was because of OCD or perfectionism, but that just didn't sit right with what I was feeling. I wasn't not doing things because they weren't perfect...I am a perfectionist but not in a way that keeps me from doing things. In fact, I'm not even sure if I truly am a perfectionist. I have learned in my life to say "this is going to have to be good enough."

Anyways, I was wondering if anyone else experienced severe avoidance behavior and how you tried to overcome it? Like what strategies you used to counteract it?

Seesaw
Thanks for this thread. I’m going to look into this because it sounds quite a bit like like some of my behaviors.
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