SUBTYPES OF AVODIANT PERSONALITY DISORDER
Phobic (Theodore Millon) General apprehensiveness displaced with avoidable tangible precipitant; qualms and disquietude symbolized by a repugnant and specific dreadful object or circumstances.
Conflicted (Theodore Millon) Internal discord and dissension; fears dependence; unsettled; unreconciled within self; hesitating, confused, tormented, paroxysmic, embittered; unresolvable angst.
Hypersensitive (Theodore Millon) Intensely wary and suspicious; alternately panicky, terrified, edgy, and timorous, then thin-skinned, high-strung, petulant, and prickly.
Self-Deserting (Theodore Millon) Blocks or fragments self-awareness; discards painful images and memories; casts away untenable thoughts and impulses; possibly suicidal.
Cold (Lynn E. Alden & Martha J. Capreol) Inability to experience and express positive emotion towards others.
Exploitable (Lynn E. Alden & Martha J. Capreol) Inability to express anger towards others or to resist coercion from others. May be at risk for abuse by others.