Do you have any really weird avoidance behaviors?

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11 Jul 2012, 3:51 pm

LeeTimmer wrote:

I’m starting to suspect that I might have Avoidant Personality Disorder, which I’ll be bringing up to my psychologist next week.

I have been thinking the same thing, so I research the differences between AvPD and other similar conditions.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt201975.html

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AvPD vs SAD
Internet also tells me that unlike SADs, who are aware of the irrationality of their anxiety yet are unable to control it, people with AvPD are unaware of or reject the idea that their fears are excessive and believe with full conviction that they are inadequate, unlovable, broken, etc. AvPDs are reluctant to initiate new activities in fear of being criticized. SADs are not as sensitive to perceived criticism as people with AvPD. Some theorize these are the same conditions only with a severity difference.

AvPD vs AS
AvPDs are often resistant to therapy, and if they do agree to group therapy, they will be reluctant to self disclose (however, I'm unsure if the opposite is true for those with AS). People with AS lack the ability to interpret non-verbal social ques. AvPDs are beyond just aware of others social ques when they are interacting with others, they are actually hypervigillant.

It seems the fact that we reply to this thread(weird behaviours), aka are aware that our fears are excessive, rules out an AvPD diagnosis.

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11 Jul 2012, 3:53 pm

Filipendula wrote:

Fluke83 wrote:

The two different parts of the building I work in is connected by a looooong, mostly straight corridor.
If two people enter the corridor at opposite ends at the same time they will be walking straight at each other for a long time before actually meeting up.
I've been working here for 3+ years, but I still haven't figured out when to look up and greet someone in that f***ing corridor...

That sounds horrendous. I have similar, but more minor issues with what sounds like a much shorter corridor where I work. It doesn't bother me too much usually, but occasionally if I need to go down it I'll come round the corner, see someone I find awkward approaching, and dart off in the opposite direction. Then I have to find somewhere to hide until I know they've left the corridor, at which point I can u-turn and go down it. There's a dark little vestibule nearby in which I've spent many a minute watching shadows and listening to doors clang to try and figure out if the coast is clear.

*lol* Sounds just like me, If I hear someone in the corridor I'll turn around and hide somewhere, there's just enough of a bend in the beginning to be able to hear but not yet see people.
Just last week I hid under a staircase in an empty part of the building :lol:

The reason this corridor is so long is that part of the complex I work at is inside a mountain and the corridor/tunnel connects the outside part to the inside part.
I've timed my rounds (I'm a security guard) so I'll be nowhere near that corridor when there's a shift change, heheh.

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11 Jul 2012, 4:02 pm

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I used to hide in wardrobes and cupboard a lot. I also spent a lot of time under my bed, as an adult I still hide by lying on the other side of the bed from the door. I've also mastered lying flat on my bed, face down with my head between the pillows (on a double bed). If you crumple up the duvet in a certain way, the bed can appear unmade, but empty.

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Yeah, hiding under the sheets like that was useful on school mornings when I didn't want to get up. Mom would look and think I'd already gotten out of bed. I did that a few times too when I was dating my partner because back then he still lived with family and he usually didn't want his nutty step-brother to know I was there.

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11 Jul 2012, 4:13 pm

Another thing I used to do to avoid my Dad after my Mom left him because he would interrogate me about her is I would stay out of the house as much as possible, working and taking martial arts classes 7 days a week, my Dad worked the night shift so after a night class I would just ride my bike around town in the middle of the night until I knew he'd gone off to work.

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11 Jul 2012, 4:39 pm

I used to work as a sales clerk in a bit upscale department store (in the towels/sheets/housewares dept.) Sometime it got so overwhelming to stand there and try to greet and snag customers (and painful to stand for hours on end) I just went into the quiet, low-lit storage room and hid as long as I could. But then---other sales clerks would walk in and wonder why I was just sitting in there alone.

At a big family gathering of my husband's ralatives---I got so overwhelmed by all these strangers (his kinfolk) I just went and hid in the bedroom.
Hiding alone can be good therapy, somtimes. When in doubt, hide.

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11 Jul 2012, 5:54 pm

I will go to the bathroom and sit on the toilet, even if i don't have to go >.< that is the most frequent one.

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11 Jul 2012, 11:15 pm

When younger, up until high school, I hid in my room or in another room during family social events. I also avoided any kind of social event like the plague. I've also pretended to be sleeping or hid out in my room if someone comes over to see my parents, and I'll still do this the odd time when I'll need some quiet.

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12 Jul 2012, 11:39 am

Yes.

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