Joined: Mar 20, 2008 Posts: 79 Location: California
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 9:51 am Post subject: What is the difference?
I'm having a hard time understanding the difference between Social Anxiety and Avoidant Personality Disorder. Whats the difference? I never heard of AvPD till I noticed this forum but it seems to be the same as SA or part of it as I see it. Anyone with SA it seems would have to have AvPD too I would think... I don't see how you can separate the two...
Joined: Apr 04, 2008 Posts: 26 Location: Australia
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 4:39 am Post subject:
AvPD is considered to be a more severe form of social phobia. I studied Abnormal Psychology last year and my lecturer claimed the two illnesses were not independent, as the chance of having AvPD and social phobia together in one person is very high.
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