What is the personalty disorder Histrionic?

Question

I know its a personalty disorder but i don't actually know what type of disorder? Please help by telling me what it is, i will answer your questions. Thanks.

Answer 1

In lay mans terms it is an excessive emotional response usually by someone hoping to manipulate others.

For example you might tell an employee they will not be paid for time off work, and they throw themselves to the floor wailing and screaming.

Its an inappropriate emotional response totally out of proportion to what would be acceptable.

Answer 2

Drama Queen-itis; affects both sexes. Not fatal, just tiresome to everyone but the Royal Personage.

Answer 3

Histrionic personality disorder (HPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a pattern of excessive emotionality and attention-seeking, including an excessive need for approval and inappropriate seductiveness, usually beginning in early adulthood.

Answer 4

Histrionic personality disorder is marked by an insatiable attention-seeking, a great emotionality, a provocative and flirtatious behavior and a false sense of intimacy in relationships when in reality there is very little. Most histrionic personality types are women who have not gone beyond the infantile stage and thus enact the role of both child and woman. Often the histrionic personality has great social skills and a hyper alertness to others so that she can decide how to manipulate them in order that she can be the center of attention, outside of which she is very uncomfortable. By being seductive, often exhibiting overt sexual behavior or flirtatious skills, her goal of making the object of her focus dependent on her is secured through histrionic exaggeration.

A goal for treatment is for the therapist to lessen the dramatic affects of the patient so that she may try to uncover true feelings and help improve the patient's self-reliance. Group therapy is often a good way to strengthen the patient's ability to relate to others in a more meaningful way and learn that not being the center of attention is not necessarily a fearful or anxiety-provoking position to find herself in. The use of antidepressant or anti-anxiety medication is not usually indicated and like behavior modification techniques usually proves of limited value. Supportive therapy usually has better results in allowing the patient to explore her inner life and help change old images and erode the obsessive search for approval and stimulation.