AVPD

Ukazuto · Newbie User Joined: Apr 06, 2008 Posts: 23

So I found out about avpd and social phobia and about the same time.

I read through it and have to say I fit both pretty well, unfortunatly... I just want to know what's the main difference because they seem basically the same, and is it common to have both?

Psychedelicious · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 7:52 pm Post subject:

if you have AVPD, you also have social phobia, but you don't always have AVPD if youy have social phobia. I think Avoidant personality is just a more severe case of social phobia, and has much more to do with avoidance. I don't think that answer helps at all haha.

recluse · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 10:09 pm Post subject:

Social phobia is the anxious feeling a person gets before and during social situations, and avpd is when the person avoids getting into the situation in the first place. But they usually tie together.

scorpion · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:55 am Post subject:

There is a very easy way to tell them apart

Sa gives fisical symptoms like panic atacks, APD doesnt

chris420 · Newbie User Joined: Apr 06, 2008 Posts: 33