Avoidant personality disorder
SEVERE FORM OF SOCIAL ANXIETY
Avoidant personality; AvPD; Anxious personality disorder; Avoidant; Avoidance behaviour; Avoidance behavior; Avoidant Personality Disorder; Anxious Personality Disorder; Avpd; Cold-avoidant; Exploitable-avoidant; Phobic avoidant; Conflicted avoidant; Hypersensitive avoidant; Self-deserting avoidant; Causes of avoidant personality disorder
Avoidant personality disorder (AvPD) is a Cluster C personality disorder characterized by excessive social anxiety and inhibition, fear of intimacy (despite an intense desire for it), severe feelings of inadequacy and inferiority, and an overreliance on avoidance of feared stimuli (e.g.