Avoidant personality disorder is described as an active-detached personality pattern in which the individual avoids people due to their fear of being humiliated or rejected. Characteristics associated with Avoidant Personality Disorder are the following: (1) The individual exaggerates the potentiality of difficulties, risks or other activities outside the scope of their usual routines; (2) These individuals have no close friends or only one-other except for first-degree relatives; (3) These individuals avoid activities that might involve interpersonal contact of a significant nature; (4) These individuals are in great fear that they might exhibit anxiety fears in front of others such as crying or blushing; (5) These individuals tend to be underachievers and have a difficult time to focus on tasks in jobs or even in their hobbies.

             MANIFESTATIONS OF APD DISORDER.

             Avoidance Personality Disorder generally has an onset in early adulthood and is a condition experienced equally by men and women. The manifestations of this disorder are seen in affectations of shyness, timidity and other withdrawing behaviors that might appear as aloofness. These individuals do not trust others and often demonstrate hostility which is in actuality a rejection of themselves and not of others. The appearance of an individual with Avoidant Personality Disorder will be expressed through variation is noted in the themes of spending great amounts of time on their appearance. The individual might dress in a manner that ensures that they are rejected.

             Many times the individual who has Avoidance Personality Disorder tends to test others and in the process end of feeling rejected or humiliated because the person who was being tested was tested unawares. In forming new relationships the individual with Avoidance Personality Disorder keeps these people at a 'safe' distance. The individual with this disorder avoids any type of intimacy.