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Histrionic Personality

It is essential to highlight that entity with histrionic personality disorders take treatment immediately and misrepresent the symptoms of their disorder. Hence they reluctantly end their treatment, due to their extreme sensitiveness and emotions.

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Histrionic Personality

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  1. Histrionic Personality

  2.  American Psychiatric Association has defined Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD) as a personality disorder which is reflected by excessive patterns of attention-seeking emotions. Such disorder is typically evident from early adulthood and includes improper seductive conduct and an intemperate demand for approval.

  3.  I cannot stop contemplating about one of my patients Janet (name has been changed to protect privacy) who met the entire diagnostic criterion for the HPD disorder. When I initially mether, she was by all accounts obsessed regarding what others were thinking about her.

  4.  She continuously wanted to be the attention point and wore loads of makeup,her eyes flashing everywhere, etc. She was loud, exceptionally sensational to rejection and was highly opinionated. Janet made promises to others which were difficult to keep, yet tried hard to win their appreciation.

  5.  Her boyfriends changed every month; however her optimism and enthusiasm regarding the future stayed high for each of her relationships. Marriage plans had been discussed with almost all her boyfriends, in spite of their short acquaintances.

  6.  It is essential to highlight that entity with histrionic personality disorders take treatment immediately and misrepresent the symptoms of their disorder. Hence they reluctantly end their treatment, due to their extreme sensitiveness and emotions.

  7.  Like other personality disorders, these individuals introduce themselves for treatment only when there are physical issues or when stress or other situational elements appear in their lives which have made their capacity to efficiently work and adapt difficult.

  8.  Individuals experiencing HPD display self-destructive tendencies, which have to be analysed all the time, and ought not to be disregarded or rejected. I had to be more receptive to the sentiments of Janet within the treatment setting and make sure that I was approaching Janet’s treatment reasonably and with boundaries.

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