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Mar 13, 2013 at 03:19 PM
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So I went to see my psychiatrist today and she told me that I have Avoidant Personality Disorder. She said now I need to make the most out of my therapy now and to see myself as 50% of the person that I want to be an push to achieve the rest. Great advice until I self destruct again and blame anything but me.
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Mar 13, 2013 at 04:50 PM
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How the heck do you be half the person you want to be? That sounds... difficult.
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Mar 13, 2013 at 04:54 PM
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Basically because I'm so self critical and I expect myself to be flawless and without error all the time and if I don't do everything 100% to my internal standard I get depressed and blame myself
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Mar 13, 2013 at 05:05 PM
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Ah. I get that way sometimes. When that happens, I usually have to step away for a minute. Then I can go back to it and things look better.
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Mar 13, 2013 at 05:21 PM
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It's frustrating. I find I have to give something an hour sometimes before I come back to something and see it logically.
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Mar 13, 2013 at 08:19 PM
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Im on the exact pase as you. Perfectionism etc.. I was just told to do 100% last week and ended up self defeating even worse..
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Mar 14, 2013 at 01:44 PM
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I've always been something of a perfectionist. While putting labels on boxes recently, I was told to just "slap them on". I swear I was horrified by the idea!
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Mar 14, 2013 at 02:52 PM
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See now I would of heard "Just slap them on perfect and if they aren't perfect you a failure."
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Mar 14, 2013 at 04:38 PM
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Erm... Sorry? I'm not sure what to say...
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Mar 14, 2013 at 04:57 PM
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I was just kidding when I said makes me wonder what I did. Stuff like that jumps to mind for a second
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Mar 14, 2013 at 05:15 PM
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Oh, okay. Anyway, this isn't an often-frequented forum, so I usually head back to the bpd forum or something when I finish here.
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Mar 14, 2013 at 05:30 PM
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Yeah, the BPD forum is very busy compared to here. You should jump on the chat too!
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Mar 15, 2013 at 04:47 AM
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Thanks Maranara,
Funny you should say that because I have told a lot of people a while ago that I see myself as comorbid Avoidant and Histrionic. I think I've shown traits of this in Therapy, my Pdoc said she thinks the histrionic stuff is me overcompensating for my true feelings. To be honest, I don't know. I agree though I do think who an Avoidant would think. Anyway whatever it is I have, these are just medical terms for behaviours. I have Therapy next week and I'm going to throw myself in head first and get as much out of it as I can. I want to do something constructive with my life, I've wasted so much of it and I don't intend on wasting anymore. |
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Mar 15, 2013 at 02:17 PM
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Mar 15, 2013 at 06:56 PM
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That's a shame. would have been good to see you there.
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