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Arrow Mar 06, 2009 at 02:46 PM
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Welcome to a safe place to talk about avoidant personality disorder issues:

Avoidant Personality Disorder

This forum is for people (or friends, or family members) with Avoidant Personality Disorder. It is not a place to discuss "avoidance" in interpersonal relationships, or other relationship or communication issues that are not directly associated with this disorder. Please use the Relationships and Communications forum instead.

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Default Mar 07, 2009 at 10:31 AM
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thanks doc jhon for creating this forum...iam so glad iam thinking about this forum since along time ago coz most people talk about in personality place only about borderline disorder....
thank you iam so glad ...yay

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Yes, thank you DocJohn, good to have our own place now!!!

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Default Mar 12, 2009 at 03:54 PM
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Just saying "hi." My name is Sunnye and I'm new here. I have an avoidant personality and I have had it for most of my life. It hasn't been fun. No conflict, please...hee, hee(for real, though).
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Default Apr 30, 2009 at 10:22 AM
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hello DocJohn...i'm new here...i hope i could learn a lot about avpd through this forum...thanks a lot and God bless
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Default Jul 17, 2009 at 06:53 AM
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Thank you, I just discovered this forum, we AvPD folks get ignored alot, its nice that the condition is acknowledged and discussed in the open
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i just found this forum after finishing a post on this same subject. i just wanted to say how glad this place is here.
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Just adding to the chorus - thanks for creating this thread.
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Holy cow!!! I never heard of this disorder in all of my years of therapy! The article link describes me to a tee. Thank you sooo much for bringing it to our and others attention. Bless you!
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Default Nov 18, 2010 at 09:30 AM
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Hello everyone. Just found this site and low and behold...they finally give me an answer for "what's your damage?"....that annoying question. AVPD...I'd never heard of it before but the write up sounds just like me.
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Default Aug 24, 2011 at 06:49 AM
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It's been a long while since I've been around. I've thought most of my problems have been related to depression, but the depression is most likely stemming from avoidance - therapist isn't saying I have a disorder (yet), but it is something valid & something I probably need to deal with.

Thank you for providing another resource for healing

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Well, it feels fine to discover this forum, thank you for it...

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Hello, I'm from indonesia.sorry my english is not good.in my town I can't find therapist or psiciatry for AvPD.do anyone know how to self-help for this condition?is there any CBT book usefull for this PD?I'm so confuse how to live with this condition?please help.thanks for kindly attention
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Hi,how are you? I'm from indonesia.I'm male 37 yo.what about you?do you have yahoo mesenger?
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Where can I go to talk to someone about this disorder?? I have never heard of it before and I'm not diognosed with it but I don't share my feeling with many people so it would be unlikely that anyone really knows what my problem is. I was reading up on personality disorders and Apd sounds like me...
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Default Nov 21, 2012 at 09:57 PM
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I hope, and expect this forum will be of benefit to all of us who share this APD burden...or challenge, and to start things off, coz I'm new here, I just made up a joke: "How do you clear the room of APDs?... Don't say anything, just glance at them."
Sorry, but I find that humor helps to lighten a serious malaise. And if you take offense to this, I'll leave, and you will never hear from me again.
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I haven't been technically diagnosed with that, but my counselor thinks its a strong possibility. Looking at the criteria, it would make perfect sense to me! I have caused myself a lot of problems because of this.

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This is all new to me but explains why I have been like I am all these years. Wow.....why do I feel so strange about this? It's how I've been....hope to find some support here....not a fun life I reality...in my head I'm out there having a great time. This is a sad life to live....
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Default Feb 19, 2014 at 02:24 PM
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Gonna have to check out that article. Sounds like part of my problem is this one here. I do this with certain things in my life and I attribute it to fear of rejection and loss. Sometimes I do it when I know I'm right but I also know facing the person is only going to cause me more loss until I have all my ducks in a row and can show them the documentation. It is based on real experience with them not caring at all about me, but wanting something from me nonetheless. Yes, I'm being vague on purpose so as to avoid giving too much away. At least I can laugh about it sometimes.
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