Catalog

Anxious personality disorder

No MMS code

Link to WHO Definition

Anxious personality disorder – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/691088106

Personality disorder characterised by feelings of tension and apprehension, insecurity and inferiority. There is a continuous yearning to be liked and accepted, a hypersensitivity to rejection and criticism with restricted personal attachments, and a tendency to avoid certain activities by habitual exaggeration of the potential dangers or risks in everyday situations.