A nurse is caring for two clients: one with schizoid personality disorder and another with avoidant personality disorder. What is the essential difference between schizoid and avoidant personality disorders?
A) Both find their interpersonal relationships lacking. Individuals with avoidant personality disorder desire intimacy but fear it, while persons with schizoid personality disorder prefer to be alone.
B) Individuals with schizoid personality disorder exhibit odd, bizarre, and eccentric behavior, while persons with avoidant personality disorder are generally normal in appearance.
C) Persons with avoidant personality disorder are more eccentric, while those with schizoid personality disorder are dull and vacant.
D) Individuals with schizoid personality disorder have a history of psychotic thought processes, while persons with avoidant personality disorder remain based in reality.
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