strooooble
New member
Hello from another Newbie.
I'm twentyseven years old and I think I've been suffering from AvPD for quite some time now without knowing it. I haven't been diagnosed and until recently not been treated for any of my issues. I've been seeing a counsellor for a few months now.
I stumbled onto the AvPD section on Wikipedia almost by pure accident, and when I started reading a hundred mental boxes where ticked. All that was going through my head was "This is so me!"..
Anyway. I am debating whether or not to tell my boss. I would like him to know about it so he understands why I sometimes don't measure up to his expectations, why I shy away from certain things. Why I ended up having a panic attack and spent six weeks at home last year.
However, I can't just go and tell him if I have no 'evidence' to back this up with, I need someone to certify that I am really suffering from this disorder and it's not just something I'm making up because I don't want to call meetings and so on.
Someone asked me the other day if I was really sure that this is what I had? And I said yeah. Looking back now I have been showing the same behavior patterns for years. I just bought a book off amazon and will read up on it some more. But I really need to talk to someone qualified to assess me. How did you guys get diagnosed? Where can I go?
Any help or advice is much appreciated.
I'm twentyseven years old and I think I've been suffering from AvPD for quite some time now without knowing it. I haven't been diagnosed and until recently not been treated for any of my issues. I've been seeing a counsellor for a few months now.
I stumbled onto the AvPD section on Wikipedia almost by pure accident, and when I started reading a hundred mental boxes where ticked. All that was going through my head was "This is so me!"..
Anyway. I am debating whether or not to tell my boss. I would like him to know about it so he understands why I sometimes don't measure up to his expectations, why I shy away from certain things. Why I ended up having a panic attack and spent six weeks at home last year.
However, I can't just go and tell him if I have no 'evidence' to back this up with, I need someone to certify that I am really suffering from this disorder and it's not just something I'm making up because I don't want to call meetings and so on.
Someone asked me the other day if I was really sure that this is what I had? And I said yeah. Looking back now I have been showing the same behavior patterns for years. I just bought a book off amazon and will read up on it some more. But I really need to talk to someone qualified to assess me. How did you guys get diagnosed? Where can I go?
Any help or advice is much appreciated.