What are the characteristics of a type C personality?

Type C personalities tend to be very accommodating, passive and bookish; they avoid conflict, bottle emotion and act as people-pleasers. Watch psychiatrist Sudeepta Varma, MD, explain the characteristics and health risks of the Type C personality.

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The type Cs, may, as a result of being shy, have certain health risks. For example, they have weakened immune systems.

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So they're more at risk for getting viral infections. [MUSIC PLAYING]

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Type C personalities are very accommodating. They're passive. They avoid conflict. And they're people pleasing.

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So this type might be one to bottle up their emotions. They generally will be shy. They won't tell you how they feel.

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They might be more bookish in the sense that they tend to stay at home and want to curl up with a good book. They also are very analytical and may be good with numbers.

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And type Cs may, as a result of being shy, have certain health risks. For example, they have weakened immune systems.

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So they're more at risk for getting viral infections. And we also see that type Cs bottle things up a lot and, as a result, be more prone to addictive behaviors

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because that's a way for them to sort of escape and decrease some of the anxiety from being all wound up. Type Cs may be more at risk for developing

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certain kind of, like, irritable bowel syndrome because they tend to keep things a lot to themselves. And as a result, it comes out in other ways.

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