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 DEFINITION
The disorder of the personality for avoidance is characterized by a general boss of social inhibition (lacking in social contacts), a few feelings of inadequacy (or maladjustment) and a hypersensitivity to the negative evaluation that they begin at the beginning of the adult age and that give him in diverse contexts.
HOW IS IT EVIDENT?
- He avoids works or activities that imply an important interpersonal contact due to the fear or to the criticism, the disapproval or the rejection
- It is unwilling to be implied by the people if he is not sure that it is going to please (He avoids to do new friends unless they are sure that they are going to be accepted and appreciated without criticism)
- It demonstrates repression in the intimate relations due to the fear of being shamed or ridiculed (It shows difficulties to speak about himself, intimate feelings of fear to be ridiculed, etc.)
- It worries about the possibility of being criticized or pushed back in the social situations (It has an extremely low threshold to detect possible criticism of the others)
- It is inhibited in the new interpersonal situations because of feelings of inferiority (Although it has avidity of participation in the social life, it shows a big fear at the time of putting his well-being in hands of the others)
- There is seen himself himself socially inept himself himself himself himself to the others
- It is extremely unwilling to run personal risks or to be involved in new activities because they can be compromising
HOW ARE THESE SUBJECTS?
The individuals who endure it usually evaluate attentively the movements and expressions of those with which they have contact. This tense behavior that they show usually provokes the mockery of these subjects, which also is frequent that have doubts about himself and low self-esteem, so that those persons who notice the oddness that they show describe them like "shameful", "shy", "solitary" and "isolated". All these symptoms happen often both in the labor ambience and in the idle one of these subjects. In contrast to the subjects with disorder schizoid of the personality, these subjects they suffer very much if social isolation.
PREDOMINANCE
It has been observed that the disorder evitativo of the personality happens both in men and in women, and it affects to between 0,5 % and 1 % of the general population and to 10 % of the clinical population. It has been observed that this disorder, in many of the cases, stretches to eliminate with the age of similar gradual form the subjects they are becoming major, so that the symptoms would appear in the childhood, they would increase in the adolescence and beginning of the adult age, and from here on they would diminish.
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