schizoid personality disorder vs avoidance personality disorder

Schizoid and Avoidant Personality Disorders: Annotated Bibliography

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ENGL 102: English Composition II

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Oct. 2, 2020

Abstract

Schizoid personality disorder and avoidance personality disorder have numerous different symptoms. Persons with schizoid personality disorder are characterized by their habit of tending to be distant, detached, and indifferent to social relationships, while avoidance personality disorder is characterized by feelings of intense social inhibition, inadequacy, and sensitivity to negative criticism and rejection. The symptoms of avoidance personality disorder consist of more than being shy and socially awkward. Persons with schizoid personality disorder usually are referred to be loners who prefer solitary activities, and they do not express their emotions easily, although many of them are able to function relatively well despite them tending to choose duties that let them work alone.

Literature Review

Persons with a schizoid personality disorder may depict symptoms such as not desiring and enjoying relationships that are very close even with their family members, choosing solitary activities and jobs, taking pleasure in fewer activities, having no close friends except for their first degree relatives only. These people also experience challenges in relating to others, being indifferent to praise and criticism, showing fewer emotions, and they can form explicit fantasies of complicated inner lives (Dammann, 2017). Individuals often show reclusiveness as they organize their lives in order to avoid any relationship with other people. Most of these persons may never marry and prefer continuing to live with their parents, even in their adulthood. People with avoidance personality disorders have symptoms of various behaviors, among them avoiding work, social, and activities in school with fear that they will be rejected or criticized. It makes them feel like they are usually unwelcome in social events even when being unwelcome does not occur since they have a low threshold for criticism and always imagine themselves being inferior to others (Joseph, 2019). Additionally, low self-esteem and self-isolation are experienced among them. An individual with avoidance disorder may fear speaking with fear of an assumption that he may say the incorrect thing leading to embarrassment.

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