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Hello, everyone!. I had read books about perfectionism, Social Phobia, or Advoidant personality disorder, non-verbal comunication and Emotional Education and Depressions. But I´d like to read more books about these topics, including one more topic (assertion). Can you recommend me some books...

Pinker, you are doing well ignoring these negative thought, but don´´t you think you should analize them, when they appear. I mean, think about what real clues have you got for negative thoughts and feelings and what clues can you find against them. Perhaps, this is could be a strategy to learn...

These days I ´ve been reading in the forum some comments which argued that we are more comfortable, without responsabilities with deseases such as: SP, AvPD,OCD and so on....or that SA is not a desease. I can´t deny that I have sometimes felt guilty for not being able to accomplish my...

Hello, I´m new in this forum and I´d like to find someone from Europe (my time area) to chat or interchange messages. Women and Men but with have the same problems as I; that is, Avoidant Personality disorder. Only to help each other. Ah, the age is important, too. I´m 36 years old. A life...

I have just talked about my obsession for a person in this forum. I can´´t stop sending him messages. I don´´t know what´´s happening to me. I´´ve got a partner, a real partner. My phychiatrist and my phychologist have asked me to stop this situation but I can´´t. I´´m really desperated. My...

Greetings, everyone in this forum. I could have read that perfectionism is sometimes the cause of Social Phobia. I´m suffering this. I feel comfortable only when I can control anything in this life. F.e: my job. But I can forgive me any errors, so when I make an error I run away and I choose...

Today, the cold running throught my bones made me woke up. This reminds me my bad memories about winter and Christmas. This `beautiful time' full of meeting with friends, relatives and co-workers. I remember I was 17 years old when I was allowed by my father to go to a New Year´s Eve celebration...

Since I´m following progressive exposure therapy, I feel people, even unknown, more opened to me. My explanation is that there is a change in me. I feel more confident and this is projected on other people. That´s the reason why when I avoided to interact because of my fears people usually...

I don´t know is this is an appropiate question for this forum. Please don´t laught at me. Imagime a person A who is perfectinist (I think this is important) and obssessive (with eight years of marrige) meets another person B only on- line, no photos. Only conversation. This person B has...

from the south of Spain, Córdoba in Andalusia No many spanish people here. :D

I´m really desperate. From my adolescense I have been feelling the same. I´m a woman and I always found very difficult, when not impossible to go closed guys or men. :oops: I´m been wondering so much about it. The only possible explanations I´ve found are that I never felt my father´s love...

Would you mind telling me if gradually exposure theraphy have worked or is working for you? I begun this theraphy two weeks ago and I was very motivated, but, I´ve just read in a book ´bout perfectionist that it doesn´t work for people who also are perfectionist. 8O What´s your opinion...

I´m Spanish and I think I have just found the forum I´m looking for, ´cos I recetly was dianosed with Avoidant Personality Disorder, also perffectionic (I never know how to write this word in English). :oops: I´ve been suffering this disorder a long time ago. Since I was 18-year-old. I´ve...

Hello, everyone. Recently I´m been diagnosed Avoidant personality disorder, appart from perfectionic. I was following a progressive exposure therapy. I´m still on the first step. Would you mind explaining what are (if there are) any differences between Social Anxiety and Avoidant personaliy...

Sorry for my delay. According to Dr Rojas Marcos in repeating depressions is necesary to test is this desease apperans in some specific moments. Scientist have guessed more likely to appear in autunm and spring. And the phychiatrists usually prescribe moob stabilizers to avoid relapses. I don´t...

This morning I wrote a message to this forum, called Christmas Sweet Christmas. It takes me a long time to write down because I´m not an English native speaker a not very experted in this forum. The case is that they erase my message ´cos 1:- It was a message with more than 225...

I was wondering if you feel the same. The fact is I´m a very weak person and when something, even small details or comentaries make me fell the worst person in the world. For example: If someone look at me very serious for a moment, I think ´this person doesn´t like me. When I see a tired face...

Greeting everyone! Today I went out of home with the porpose of looking at people´s eyes. I´ve noticed how diffucult this had been for me. I couldn´t avoid looking at another place when they looked at me. Suddenly, an idea wet to my head, Do they think I´m flirtying with them. For goodness...

Hi! every one. I very much like coffee but I just discover is specially harmful for people with anxiety. It´s thought the caffeine effects in body to last for 13 or 16 days. This is a thing you already problably know but I wanted to share it. Bye, friends!

My stomach! A friend of my husband wants to come next weend to my city. He wants to meet my city before coming back to his country. I don´t know what can we do. This suppose he´s going to stay at home for two days. I´m an horrible hostess. This is a nightmare. I´ve just said to my husband that...