What is Avoidant Personality Disorder?

Contents

Avoidant Personality Disorder: Introduction
Types of Avoidant Personality Disorder
Other names for Avoidant Personality Disorder
What causes Avoidant Personality Disorder?
What are the symptoms of Avoidant Personality Disorder?
Organs Affected by Avoidant Personality Disorder
Can anyone else get Avoidant Personality Disorder?
How is it treated?
Society issues for Avoidant Personality Disorder
Avoidant Personality Disorder: Introduction

What is Avoidant Personality Disorder?

A personality disorder where the suffers feel they are inadequate in some way and tend to avoid social interaction ...more »

Avoidant Personality Disorder: Personality type that avoids other people.

Avoidant Personality Disorder: Introduction

Types of Avoidant Personality Disorder:

Broader types of Avoidant Personality Disorder:

What causes Avoidant Personality Disorder?

Causes of Avoidant Personality Disorder: see causes of Avoidant Personality Disorder

What are the symptoms of Avoidant Personality Disorder?

Symptoms of Avoidant Personality Disorder: see symptoms of Avoidant Personality Disorder

Can anyone else get Avoidant Personality Disorder?

More information: see contagiousness of Avoidant Personality Disorder
Inheritance: see inheritance of Avoidant Personality Disorder

Avoidant Personality Disorder: Testing

Diagnostic testing: see tests for Avoidant Personality Disorder.

Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Avoidant Personality Disorder.

How is it treated?

Treatments for Avoidant Personality Disorder: see treatments for Avoidant Personality Disorder
Research for Avoidant Personality Disorder: see research for Avoidant Personality Disorder

Society issues for Avoidant Personality Disorder

Hospitalization statistics for Avoidant Personality Disorder: The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Avoidant Personality Disorder:

0.001% (75) of hospital consultant episodes were for anxious or avoidant personality disorder in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
92% of hospital consultant episodes for anxious or avoidant personality disorder required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
35% of hospital consultant episodes for anxious or avoidant personality disorder were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
65% of hospital consultant episodes for anxious or avoidant personality disorder were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
72% of hospital consultant episodes for anxious or avoidant personality disorder required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
51.2 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for anxious or avoidant personality disorder in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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