What a personality disorder actually means, and what it does not
The label frightens people more than almost any other in mental health, usually because of what they have read rather than what it describes.
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Personality disorders explained without the stigma
Few diagnoses are as misused in everyday conversation as this one. A personality disorder is not a label for a difficult person. It describes long standing patterns of relating, feeling and self protection that once made sense and now cost a great deal. These articles cover the major presentations separately, because they are genuinely different experiences.
Living at full volume: emotional intensity, abandonment fear and what actually helps
When feelings arrive at ten out of ten in under a second and take hours to come down, the problem is not that you care too much.
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Avoidant personality or social anxiety: a difference that changes the whole treatment
Both avoid. One fears a bad moment, the other has concluded something permanent about who they are.
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