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celtic1985
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16 Feb 2007, 8:34 pm

First appointment with Psychologist and I've been diagnosed as having Avoidant Personality Disorder.

Ok, so I'm not an Aspie then, but I think he's only just scratched the surface, I'm far more f***ed up than he seems to realise, he happened to see me in a 'good spell'.


Oh well, 3 weeks time I'm going back and I'm quite sure I'll have another label after that.



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16 Feb 2007, 8:39 pm

When I was first seeing my doctor, he DXed me with Social Phobia, then once he got to know me he realized I was more 'serious' than he thought.



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16 Feb 2007, 9:30 pm

Starbuline wrote:
When I was first seeing my doctor, he DXed me with Social Phobia, then once he got to know me he realized I was more 'serious' than he thought.


I think Social-phobia is merely a co-morbidity not an actual disorder.


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18 Feb 2007, 4:11 am

What exactly IS Avoidant Personality Disorder?

Seems to me that some of these quacks have a name for so many things that soon enough every person with an actual personality will be described as having some sort of "personality disorder" :roll:

I think most phobias can exist as disorders on their own, though. (Although social phobia is one of the less well-defined, as opposed to arachnophobia, acrophobia, or claustrophobia)


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