Avoidant Personality Disorder

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This paper explains that being embarrassed in front of others horrifies individuals suffering from "Avoidant Personality Disorders". As a result, they usually withdraw from social gatherings to avoid any sort of discomfort. The author reports that the research showed around 75 percent of the patients who acquire social phobia claim they were vulnerable to shyness during childhood. The paper pointed out that children who came from broken homes, foster homes, and experienced frequent moves, were greatly susceptible to "Avoidant Personality Disorder".

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"Hardly any thing is known about the etiology of Avoidant Personality Disorder. One cannot easily determine whether a child is suffering from this disorder or not. From this article, one can analyze that personality disorders are developed through temperamental characteristics present during childhood. "There is evidence that anxious traits are familial with inheritabilities of approximately 50%. Thus, one might expect that some of the core features of AVPD would be present in childhood, although not necessarily at severe enough levels to cause impairment and to constitute a disorder." "

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