avoidant-personality-disorder

Therefore, while social phobics and patients with AvPD both avoid out of fear, the social phobic__ fears mainly arise in the clinical context of feeling, or actually being called upon to perform in ways ranging from giving a speech to urinating in a public washroom. In contrast the avoidant__ fears generally arise in the context of interpersonal relationships, the main marker I look for in making the diagnosis of AvPD.