Avoidant
Personality Disorder – The Fear Of Reaching Out For Help
A mother wanted me to go see her daughter,
Angela because she refuses to work, talk to anyone and becoming increasingly withdrawn
from even the family members. Instead of bringing her to me, her mother wants
me to pay her daughter a visit due to her refusal to venture out.
This situation started when Mark, who
recently graduated and wanting to start work. Instead, Angela being a good
childhood friend of Mark decided to help start him into a business venture by
opening a tuition centre. Angela decided to invest a substantial amount of her
personal savings into the setting up of the centre and Mark comes in to work as
an active partner without laying out any capital.
Known to both Angela and Mark, was Mark’s godmother.
Seeing that such a centre would make a lot of money, the greed and jealousy the
godmother led her to manipulate naïve Mark into withdrawing from the
partnership by teaching him how to play out Angela. So, after the renovation
was completed and the centre was about to start, Mark suddenly broke the news of
withdrawing from the partnership to her and it took place in front of the
godmother. So that Mark can start it by himself with the support from the godmother
instead.
In fact, in front of her, both knowingly
lied to her. Even though the situation left the centre without any students or
business, it is the betrayal that caused Angela to break down in tears, with
anger and developed a deep mistrust with everyone around her. The saddest of
this betrayal is that Angela has lost a good friend Mark. She became paranoid,
totally losing interest and passion for business – eventually losing a lot of
money and was forced to close down the tuition centre. As the emotions
deteriorated, she became increasingly depressed, withdrawing herself from
everyone and fermenting a lot of anger towards the godmother and Mark. That is
due to the fact that Angela had treated Mark’s godmother very well in the
beginning, so it becomes very hard to accept that she play the betrayal game.
Angela has lost her sense of direction and confidence for some time now and
does not know what to do. She had put in all her saving, passion and effort and
tried to make her dream come true but unfortunately she was played out by both
of whom she trusted so much. From her mother’s story, I assess that she could be
suffering from avoidant personality disorder.
Treatment
Plan
Treatment of avoidant personality disorder
typically involves long-term psychotherapy with a therapist that has experience
in treating this kind of personality disorder. Medications may also be
prescribed to help with specific troubling and debilitating symptoms.
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