What is the difference between Avoidant Personality Disorder and Narcissistic Personality Disorder?

What is the difference between Avoidant Personality Disorder and Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
Avoidant personality disorder is a cluster C personality disorder (anxious fearful cluster). In that same cluster there is dependent personality disorder and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. Avoidant personality disorder, like any personality disorder, is usually thought of as long lasting and pervasive. If we look at the symptom criteria for avoidant personality disorder from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) we see a number of potential symptoms. The first is that an individual avoids an occupation because of a risk of rejection. The second symptom criterion is the individual does not want to get in relationships unless there's a certainty that they'll be liked. The third symptom criterion is individual has difficulty forming intimate relationships. This symptom really refers to the fact that they have difficulty oftentimes with that. It's not about a desire for intimate relationships, but rather the actual ability to form them. The next symptom criterion is a preoccupation with being criticized. Next is difficulty forming new relationships. An individual could have an inhibition when trying to form a new relationship. The next criterion is a feeling of being inept or inferior. The last symptom cried is the individual does not take risks because of fear of embarrassment. If we look at avoidant personality disorder we see that somebody would generally isolates because of a fear of criticism, rejection, and possibly because of embarrassment. When we think of this personality disorder, we think there's excessive monitoring of an individual's internal reactions. An individual with this disorder is often thinking about how other people are viewing them and thinking about how they could be being criticized, embarrassed, or rejected. This excessive monitoring leads to difficulties in forming and maintaining relationships.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder is characterized by a grandiose sense of self-importance, a preoccupation with unlimited success, feeling too special to be understood by regular people, needing excessive admiration, a sense of entitlement, being interpersonally exploitative, having a lack of empathy, being envious and others and believe others are envious of them, and being arrogant. Oftentimes an individual with Narcissistic Personality Disorder wants to be recognized as superior, believes they are so complex and amazing that they can only be understood by special people, has low self-esteem, devalues the contributions of others, and is condescending. Criticism is not well received by most people with Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Comorbid disorders include other personality disorders (e.g. Antisocial Personality Disorder), Anorexia Nervosa, and substance use disorders (especially cocaine use disorder). The prevalence of Narcissistic Personality Disorder is about 1%. Common goals in mental health treatment of Narcissistic Personality Disorder include adjusting behavior to improve relationships, developing skills resolve employment and career issues, and increasing insight. Clinically significant distress is required for a diagnosis of Narcissistic Personality Disorder as stated in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM).

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