# Cluster C personality disorders

These personality disorders break into the domains of avoidant personality disorder, dependent personality disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

A viewpoint that has problems with [anxiety](mind-feelings-fear.md) and compulsive behaviors.

- Effectively a problem with over-obsessing about the future.

There are three major classifications:

- Avoidant Personality Disorder (AVPD): heavily avoids circumstances.
- Dependent Personality Disorder (DPD): heavily over-relies on others.
- Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD): preoccupied with order, rules, and schedules.

Indicators:

- Constantly obsessed about the future, even when it doesn't make sense or have any present value.
- Obsessive actions taken in preparation for the future that don't materially change the circumstances.

How to behave with them:

- Be patient with their fears, since they believe those fears are legitimate.
- When trying to talk them down from their anxieties, ask questions that undermine (not simply state) the reliability of their concerns.
- However, if they reinforce their fears and anxieties, be careful to not share in that paranoia yourself.

The cure for it:

- Mostly, they need [awareness](mind-awareness.md) of further information that diminishes their paranoia (e.g., [God is in control](god-will.md)).