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What is the difference between borderline and histrionic?
Borderline personality disorder Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Borderline personality disorder is characterized by a pervasive pattern of instability and hypersensitivity in interpersonal relationships, instability in self-image, extreme mood fluctuations… read more : Patients with borderline personality …
What are Cluster B personalities?
Cluster B personality disorders are characterized by dramatic, overly emotional or unpredictable thinking or behavior. They include antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder.
They imagine embarrassing themselves. Whether they’re about to meet a new person, or they’re walking into a social gathering, people with social anxiety disorder envision horribly embarrassing scenarios. They worry that they’ll say or do the wrong thing, and they picture that behavior horrifying other people.
What is social awkwardness in psychology?
Social awkwardness, researcher Joshua Clegg explains, is the feeling we experience when we believe that our desire for being accepted by others is threatened in a given situation. This feeling incites us to turn inward, increase our self-monitoring, and attempt to behave in ways that will better our chances for acceptance.
How do people with social anxiety react to other people?
Most people with social anxiety feel comfortable with a few specific individuals—such as a best friend, a parent, or a sibling. Interacting with other individuals can lead to a serious spike in anxiety. Often, taking a “safe” person to the grocery store or a social gathering makes interactions a lot less scary.
The negative thoughts associated with social anxiety often turn into self-fulfilling prophecies. Someone who thinks “People always think I’m weird” may stick to himself during social engagements. His aloofness may discourage others from talking to him, reinforcing his belief that he’s socially awkward. Social anxiety is a very treatable condition.