Avoidant Personality Disorder

Today on the podcast, we're going to talk about avoidant personality disorder. It's a pervasive pattern of social inhibition and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation. The individual avoids occupational activities or activities in general that involve significant interpersonal contact because of fear of criticism, disapproval or rejection. And this stems from early childhood messages of dancing,. You're no good, you're never going to mount anything. No one's ever going to want to date you. NoOne's everGoingToMarryYou means pretty strong messages that are impacting the developing personality between five and eight years of age.