Pathological Demand Avoidance and the Parts That Learned to Protect It
Psychology Today | 21.05.2026 22:44
Pathological demand avoidance (PDA) is not an official diagnosis, yet it is gaining traction as a way of capturing a phenotype that isn't simply about finding demands difficult. It describes a relationship to the world in which a threat to autonomy is not merely annoying but registers as a primal, embodied threat to existence itself.
