Avoidant Personality Disorder : Symptoms
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Symptoms could include:
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Absent Or Abnormal Social Play
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Communication Disorders
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Lack Of Close Friend
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Tends To Be Disorganized
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People with avoidant personality disorder are preoccupied with their own shortcomings and form relationships with others only if they believe they will not be rejected. Loss and rejection are so painful that these individuals will choose to be lon...
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DSM-IV-TRspecifies seven diagnostic criteria for avoidant personality disorder: The person avoids occupational activities that require significant interpersonal contact. Job interviews or pro motions may be turned down because the person's own per...
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Shyness is a psychological state that causes a person to feel discomfort in social situations in ways that interfere with enjoyment or that cause avoidance of social contacts altogether. Shyness can vary from mild feelings to moderately uncomfortable in social circumstances to debilitating levels of anxiety that interfere in children with the process of socialization (social withdrawal).
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The tendency to avoid or be timid or subdued with unfamiliar children or adults. Shyness first appears around the first birthday, when the capacity to experience fear to discrepant events matures.
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