Avoidant Disorders in Mental Health
Yes, there is a diagnosis titled Avoidant Personality
Disorder. This type of personality will often avoid public, since they fear
that the people will reject them, disappoint them, humiliate them, or view them
as a complete failure. They often are reluctant to ask for help, ask questions,
or speak in public. They also work below their abilities since promotions are
often frightening for them. Most times, they suffer inferiority complexes, and
suffer severe episodes of loneliness, depression, anxiety attacks, and so
forth. Schizoid personality types are similar, in the sense, they will avoid
public, and however avoidant personality types do not have a need to socialize.
We are discussing this disorder simply because I have to question the idea of
this disorder in the first place. After studying an individual with multiple
personality disorder (MPD), and noticing that the individual displayed avoidant
behaviors in certain areas of the persons personality, I noticed that the
person was not frightened of social, rather abused and neglect by the father
and by the system.
The person was raised by a paranoid schizophrenia that
taught her or punished her when she would go in the public, or else visit
another home. When the person was able to befriend others the father, moving to
another area, instantly swept her away. The young woman was different in the
sense she had multiple personalities, so it was easier to fix the problem by integrating
the personality that suffered the symptoms of avoidant. After Integration I
noticed a tremendous change, in that the person enjoyed being around people to
a degree. However, this woman was intelligent and wise to the system that she
set boundaries in social engagements. This is only one individual with over 70
personalities, so it made me wonder if avoidant personality disorder was proper
in some cases. I have to reason that people with avoidant personality types may
have a foundation that is not explored to the degree that it should be
explored.
The system alone and how others treat others sometimes
is enough to make anyone want to avoid public. It is important to examine all
aspects of the symptoms before coming to the conclusion that the person has
avoidant personality disorder. Most all (rather all) individuals with a mental
disorder or illness has an underlying root which in all cases is FEAR. Once an
expert works through those fears dealing with one at a time moving onto the
next fear, then mental illnesses is only a state of mind. It is possible to
treat mentally ill, disorders with therapy alone, and is more effective if the
techniques used are appropriate to the diagnose and worked properly. Not
everyone with a mental illness needs medications. Paranoid Schizophrenics,
Bipolar, and a few other disorders or mental illnesses in my experience needed
medication.
Paranoid Schizophrenias definitely should be
medicated. If you do not medicate a Paranoid Schizophrenic, you are only asking
for trouble. These types will kill out of their own state of mind, simply
because they believe someone is trying to hurt them, when in reality they are
not. Not all schizophrenics kill, but there are known cases, including the
Oklahoma Bomber that has killed. Avoidant personality disorders are easy to
undo without medications, simply because the root of their symptoms is fear. We
can start therapeutic treatment by working with the deepest fear the person
displays. Talk therapy, role-play, and a few other therapeutic strategies could
do wonders for people with avoidant personality disorders. It is important to
listen to these types, since the problem lies beneath the voices that speak.
When a person is telling you that he or she has a problem with socialization,
we know that underneath those words is a fear that was cultivated by an
incident/accident at childhood. We know that this person had endured some
underdevelopment and lacks education and knowledge of the so-called normal
ways. This person if taught or relearned the rules and regulations of society
can in time socialize without problems. If we work through the problems without
burying them with medications, we are most likely going to have fewer problems.