What is avoidant personality disorder

Avoidant personality disorder is actually a kind of mental illness, which usually manifests itself as behavioral withdrawal, psychological inferiority, or always taking an avoidant attitude and being unable to cope with any challenges. The cause of this avoidant personality disorder may have a lot to do with family education and growth environment.

1. Biological factors : Individuals with avoidant personality disorder display an inconsolable temperament or personality traits from birth; children who are highly sensitive to negative emotional stimulation in society are prone to this disorder.

2. Family upbringing environment factors : Individuals with avoidant personality disorder believe that their parents are more disgusted with them, which makes them feel more guilty and lack appropriate emotions towards themselves.

3. The main reason for the formation of avoidant personality is inferiority complex. Psychologists believe that inferiority complex originates in a person's childhood, and is a feeling of incompetence and pain caused by incompetence. It also includes the mentality of despising oneself and thinking that one is inferior to others in some aspects due to physical defects or certain psychological defects (such as intelligence, memory, personality, etc.).

4. Everyone always uses others as a mirror to understand themselves . If others give a low evaluation of themselves, especially the evaluation of more authoritative people, it will affect their understanding of themselves and thus underestimate themselves. Some people have found that people with more introverted personalities are more willing to accept low evaluations from others rather than high evaluations from others; in the process of comparing with others, they also like to compare their own shortcomings with the strengths of others. The more they compare, the more discouraged they become, and the more inferior they feel.

5. When everyone faces a new situation, they will first assess whether they are capable of coping with it. Some people often feel "I can't do it" due to lack of self-awareness. Because of such negative self-suggestion in advance, it will suppress self-confidence, increase tension, and create a psychological burden, and the work results will inevitably be poor. This result will form a negative feedback effect, affecting future behavior, and thus a vicious cycle, further aggravating the inferiority complex.