Avoidant Personality Disorder

The storyline of Charlie Brown is focused on a very small social circle of young children. One of the main animated character is Charlie Brown who has various insecurities. The author made a common connection between himself and the character. He was a child who others preyed on and made a mockery out of. The comical was used as an example of a great American un-success story, where the character failed at everything he attempted to do. Charlie Brown was always prone to bad luck.

The DSM-5 defines avoidant personality disorder as “A pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to criticism… starting in early adulthood in many contexts” (Hyde 2017a). This is most evident in the passage where Zailckas explains her reasoning for avoiding her hall mates and roommate Wendi. She declares, “I don’t avoid you because I think I’m superior, I do it because I think I’m inferior. I do it because I think you don’t want me, and that lowliness is the reason that I drink, too” (p.

Avoidant personality disorder is defined as experiencing an extreme pattern of feelings of inadequacy accompanied by fear of social contact (Funder, 2013). It is difficult to imagine going through life without ever feeling inadequate, or failing at something (Funder, 2013). Avoidant personality disorder is high in the trait of neuroticism, and low in extraversion (Funder, 2013). An adaptive trait associated with avoidant personality disorder is a person who is sensitive, quiet and essentially a homebody (Funder, 2013).

It known as the anxious and fearful Cluster. It includes avoidant, obsessive-compulsive and dependent personality disorder. They all have a genetic association to anxiety. Individuals who are shy, timid, and socially inhibited characterize the avoidant personality disorder. They have extremely low self-esteem, and see themselves as incapable, inadequate and undesirable. This people want close relationships, but rarely take social risks. As a result, they avoid social situations, which makes it harder for them to meet people. They are also hypersensitive to rejection and negative feedback, becoming even more withdrawn when that happens.

Do you ever wonder what happened to people who were anti-social or how they were treated back in the old ages? People who are ant-social in today’s time have better care than back then, which is not surprising. No one really knew how all anti-social people were treated back then, but the essay you are about to read will tell you a little bit of how they were treated.

Starting with former president Obama one of the disorders that I have associated him with is avoidant personality disorder. This disorder is characterized by individuals who are unwilling to get involved with people unless

Sometimes, people can suffer from disorders that makes being in social situations a challenge. These are not by choice, but by a reaction to society around them. One such reason is Avoidant Personality Disorder (AvPD)(2). This is a rare personality disorder that is thought to only occur in approximately 0.1% to 0.5% of the population. It is distinguished by behavioural reserve, including features of being nervous, frightened, and withdrawn in new situations. These are attributes that commonly would be teased out of a person at a young age as they are taught to socialise. So why do they reappear with age? As personality disorders cannot be diagnosed before the age of eighteen, one like AvPD can simply be overlooked as anxiety or shyness. However, after the age of eighteen and towards adulthood, this is when personality disorders can be diagnosed properly. These can be debilitating, causing people to be unable to function in society. An example with AvPD is being hypersensitive to criticism and reactions to criticism ranging from simply blushing or being nervous but can culminate in crying or even cause panic attacks. Due to this, it is known that people with AvPD will not take personal risks in fear of embarrassing themselves. Nonetheless, that is a diagnosis by a doctor and rarely is it ever actually the official diagnosis. Anxiety is more often

Individuals diagnosed with Avoidant Personality Disorder go through a lot of dysfunction dysfunction in the lives of individuals diagnosed with Avoidant Personality Disorder is severe. It causes distress to the individuals because they are not able to positively advance in their personal and professional relationships. They spend a copious amount of time and effort in treatments. The distress is extended to their family since they perceive these individuals as a burden (Baljé et al., 2016).

The DSM 1V criteria for Histrionic Personality Disorder is: uncomfortable if they are not the center of attention. Interactions with others are often inappropriate sexual seduction, shallow expression of emotions, and uses physical appearance to draw attention. They often consider relationships to be more intimate than they are (Butcher, Hooley, & Mineka, 2014, p. 339). Those with histrionic often have a difficult time with friendships as well because they are constantly in a flirtatious mode with other people’s partner, which in turn causes problems with their relationship.

The four personality disorders I chose are paranoid, antisocial, borderline, and dependent. Paranoid personality disorder is someone that doesn’t trust anyone and is always observant of what is going on. They are really sensitive, they feel shame and have problems building close relationships. Antisocial personality disorder is someone that doesn’t care about others feelings. This disorder is most common in men and the people who have it are likely to have a criminal record. Borderline personality disorder is someone that has changing moods, behaviors and unstable relationships because they fear of being alone. They also have thoughts about self-harm and should always seek medical attention. The last one is dependent personality disorder. People

One of the most common mental disorders in the United States that goes unseen is social anxiety disorder, also known as social phobia. Many times parents tend to mistake it for pure shyness. If gone uncured it may cause children, young adults, and adults to not be able to participate in social activities. Even though there is a great diversity in all people when it comes to their personalities the quitter people tend to develop social anxiety due to how society tends to favor bolder personalities. That may cause neglect and that is the main cause of social anxiety disorder.

Eikenaes, I., Egeland, J., Hummelen, B., & Wilberg, T. (2015). Avoidant Personality Disorder versus Social Phobia: The Significance of Childhood Neglect. Plos ONE, 10(3), 1-14. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0122846

People with social phobia are often aware of their unreasonable fear, but they can’t seem to overcome their fear (NIMH, 2013). To cope with their anxiety, they often avoid social situation (people, place, event)

What is the biggest fear of the people with avoidant personality disorder? Avoidant personality disorder the person is persistently tense because he or she is socially inept, unappealing, or inferior, and as a result fears being embarrassed, criticsed or rejected. There are many chacteristic of people with avoidant personality disorder. Because it is wrong how the people live with this disorder basically there going crazy and driving everybody away.

Everyone has noticed that there is at least that one person who seems like they just don’t fit in. They seem like they are not enjoying their selves and they look like they would rather be somewhere else. They are the ones who sit in the background and idly watch everything that goes on around them. Their hardly ever seen verbally or physically communicating to other human beings. These are the some of the characteristics of someone who has a social disorder such as anti-social personality disorder.