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Default Dec 07, 2017 at 09:02 PM
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I have been suffering from severe depression, PTSD, and GAD with mild agoraphobia for a long time. But things don't add up and no matter how much treatment I go through, or what drugs I take, nothing works. In another support group, I met someone with AVPD, and their description of their disorder sounds SO very familiar to me that I think I may have AVPD; I know at least I have numerous traits.

I have spent the last month in bed or on my sofa...many times for hours in complete silence, avoiding work, avoiding life, just avoiding having to have any contact with anyone or anything. The last two weeks are a blur because I have just spent them zoned out in a sort of dissociative avoidant state.

I see my pdoc in a few weeks and hope to discuss this with her and see what she thinks. In the meantime, I wanted to do some reading and learn more about this disorder and treatment/coping skills.

Thanks for listening.

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Secondary Dx: Generalized Anxiety Disorder with mild Agoraphobia.

Meds I've tried: Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa, Effexor, Remeron, Elavil, Wellbutrin, Risperidone, Abilify, Prazosin, Paxil, Trazadone, Tramadol, Topomax, Xanax, Propranolol, Valium, Visteril, Vraylar, Selinor, Clonopin, Ambien

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Default Dec 07, 2017 at 09:24 PM
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I have been suffering from severe depression, PTSD, and GAD with mild agoraphobia for a long time. But things don't add up and no matter how much treatment I go through, or what drugs I take, nothing works. In another support group, I met someone with AVPD, and their description of their disorder sounds SO very familiar to me that I think I may have AVPD; I know at least I have numerous traits.

I have spent the last month in bed or on my sofa...many times for hours in complete silence, avoiding work, avoiding life, just avoiding having to have any contact with anyone or anything. The last two weeks are a blur because I have just spent them zoned out in a sort of dissociative avoidant state.

I see my pdoc in a few weeks and hope to discuss this with her and see what she thinks. In the meantime, I wanted to do some reading and learn more about this disorder and treatment/coping skills.

Thanks for listening.

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I just was officially diagnosed yesterdy. Treatment with DBT can be very helpful as medication is not really that sucessful,
my therapist and doc use DBt with me. Whether or not u have an official stamp of approval from a doc with a DX to me does not matter at all. I know many will disagree, thats up to them i dont care. What i do and can relate to after being rejected in this group (who are so afraid of rejection themselves)
is that My sypmtoms were and are very real DX or no DX and treating and soothing the symptoms is the main thing... I wish you all the best HUGS

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Default Dec 07, 2017 at 09:29 PM
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I just was officially diagnosed yesterdy. Treatment with DBT can be very helpful as medication is not really that sucessful,
my therapist and doc use DBt with me. Whether or not u have an official stamp of approval from a doc with a DX to me does not matter at all. I know many will disagree, thats up to them i dont care. What i do and can relate to after being rejected in this group (who are so afraid of rejection themselves)
is that My sypmtoms were and are very real DX or no DX and treating and soothing the symptoms is the main thing... I wish you all the best HUGS
Another side thougt, can anyone show me where in the DX it says AVPDs have no empathy??? I THOUGHT NOT (hugs)

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Default Dec 07, 2017 at 09:32 PM
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Another side thougt, can anyone show me where in the DX it says AVPDs have no empathy??? I THOUGHT NOT (hugs)
Thanks. Like I said, I don't know for sure, I just know that I definitely suffer from some of these traits, and dealing with those traits won't necessarily be different with a Dx or not. I've been researching treatment, DBT mostly, for AVPD but also for avoidance coping behavior.

I've dealt with these problems for so long, it's nice to think that it might actually be a real thing that could actually be overcome or at least managed. It's sort of like, the first step to treating the problem is recognizing there is a problem? It's almost like a relief knowing/admitting that there is an issue beyond what I've already been Dx'd with.

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Primary Dx: C-PTSD and Severe Chronic Treatment Resistant Major Depressive Disorder
Secondary Dx: Generalized Anxiety Disorder with mild Agoraphobia.

Meds I've tried: Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa, Effexor, Remeron, Elavil, Wellbutrin, Risperidone, Abilify, Prazosin, Paxil, Trazadone, Tramadol, Topomax, Xanax, Propranolol, Valium, Visteril, Vraylar, Selinor, Clonopin, Ambien

Treatments I've done: CBT, DBT, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Talk therapy, psychotherapy, exercise, diet, sleeping more, sleeping less...
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Default Dec 07, 2017 at 09:44 PM
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Exactly it feels like half the battle is won because u have discovered another trait in yourself that needs to be healed or at leaste you know u can soothe the symptoms with DBT and you know that its a real thing that you now can begin to battle
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Thanks. Like I said, I don't know for sure, I just know that I definitely suffer from some of these traits, and dealing with those traits won't necessarily be different with a Dx or not. I've been researching treatment, DBT mostly, for AVPD but also for avoidance coping behavior.

I've dealt with these problems for so long, it's nice to think that it might actually be a real thing that could actually be overcome or at least managed. It's sort of like, the first step to treating the problem is recognizing there is a problem? It's almost like a relief knowing/admitting that there is an issue beyond what I've already been Dx'd with.

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Default Dec 07, 2017 at 09:49 PM
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Maybe some people see if differently but i want to recover, not stay an AVPD the rest of my life. I cant imagine myself 80 years old stuck at home with no friends and just stuck with my own self destructive thoughts.. because once we avoid for to long, we sit and ruminate to much, think too much, over think too much and having no contact is just so not healthy for anyone as a human being we need and crave some type of human interaction its in our nature, its how we were made. God made Adam and Eve, not just Adam. I dont want to be a member of PC that is an avoidant all my life and sits quietly on the side lines of life reading posts and not replying because i am avoiding.. i CHOOSE from yesterday on forward to do something about my problem and over come this come hell or high water.. one step at a time.. and to LIVE LIFE.. not avoid...

i am so happy for you that you figured out another part of yourself that you can begin to heal... congrats! HUGS

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