Anxious personality disorder is a disorder in which a person strives to be shielded from the society, becomes withdrawn, feels inadequate, avoids any interaction with other people. Depressive anxiety disorder makes a person feel that he does not know how to communicate, because of which he is always afraid to be humiliated and ridiculed.
Signs of anxiety disorder
Before determining what treatment is needed for an anxious personality disorder, the doctor will certainly pay attention to the symptoms. These include:
- the fear of being rejected, mocked;
- sharp self-criticism for any reason;
- increased sensitivity to criticism;
- voluntary isolation of oneself from society;
- problems in the professional sphere due to isolation;
- feeling "second-rate", worse than others;
- increased shyness and shyness;
- emotional distance with an intimate partner;
- the desire to avoid communication with people;
- feeling of own inadequacy;
- low self-esteem;
- constant anxiety and awkwardness in people;
- feeling of loneliness;
- dependence on any substances.
Such people are ready to communicate only with those who are guaranteed not to be rejected and ridiculed. For them, the very opportunity to be rejected is so terrible that they agree more readily on voluntary loneliness.
Treatment of anxiety disorder
Experts use different therapeutic methods, because how to cure an anxiety disorder depends largely on the specific case, stage and features of the course of the disease.
During the treatment the doctor will offer training of social skills, group therapy, cognitive psychotherapy, and only sometimes - medical treatment.
The main task of the doctor is to get the patient's confidence, otherwise the client will simply stop attending counseling. After this is achieved, the doctor helps to destroy the patient's negative beliefs about himself, helps in acquiring an adequate self-esteem and helps to advance on the path of establishing contacts with other people in a new, fearless way.
Anxious personality disorder is a complex disease and is not treated in a day, but the sooner the therapy begins, the faster the effect will be. The main thing is that the patient himself aspires to changes in his condition, this is the basis for an easy and quick treatment.