>>22079551personality disorders are kind of made to be a meme online, some of them like schizotypal generally include like full blown psychosis in case studies but people generally overlook that to be part of a club.
The nature of "personality disorders" and "mental illnesses" is also lost on people because they are extremely abstract.
What these disorders are essentially
>academic psychology and the pharmaceutical industry need distinct categories of people to do research on>in order to do this research they form vague categories of symptoms (say having 4 out of 7) and treatmentsThe categories are basically the groups that respond to treatments in a similar way for people defined in that groups.
The actual mechanism for doing the research is establishing some kind of metric (there are a ton of scales/indexes/inventories for doing this), giving the treatment, then recording reductions in that metric used.
All "having a disorder" actually means is there is a psychologist who thinks you have symptoms that can be put in that category, such that they think those treatments will help with your symptoms.
it's a very abstract and heuristic thing, nobody has "depression" or "AVPD", a psychiatric professional thinks it's basically a useful heuristic for approaching treatments for your negative symptoms.
I'm diagnosed w/ a generalized social anxiety disorder no PD, but I suspect I could get an AVPD diagnosis, however I don't get along with psychs and end up arguing with them. (I've had one tell me to stop coming before)
Did some digging into the distinction between AVPD and GSAD actually some interesting research. Similar treatments but AVPD benefits more from psychodynamic therapy which is cool.
>Although 36.4% of individuals with GSP were diagnosed with APD, the majority (57.3%) of individuals with GSP who feared all 13 social situations assessed were diagnosed with APD. Nearly 40% of individuals with APD also had GSP. 