Histrionic personality disorder
Histrionic personality disorder is a form of mental enthusiasm and ill behaviour consisting of the need for attention and feelings by becoming more emotional in a dramatic manner. As personalities, we often show exaggerated emotions from time to time but a person suffering from histrionic personality disorder tend to be constantly on that line of excessive emotionality and some other attention seeking personality traits.
Researches have shown that women suffer from histrionic personality disorder 4 times than men. And obviously, it's the attention seeking, dating things, becoming attractive, getting the man you want, getting guy's to follow them causing the inappropriate appearance which is another histrionic personality disorder. Let's look at the generalized but important factor on this case.
Histrionic personality disorder symptoms
• Instant change of mood emotions. Don't confuse this with bipolar personality disorder, which is also a mood swing disorder because a mood can spawn into any direction. The emotional shifts of HPD can happen when a fellow as a form of curiosity to bring people's attention, showing physical care and other similar social things.
• Getting into drama scene with an obvious lack of sincerity by some faking acts.
• Histrionic people are mostly successful socially but the disorder part can be recognized when they can't afford to bear failure or challenges socially. They're a less of perfectionists but like to thrive in anyway possible using various attention seeking techniques.
• People with acute histrionic personality disorder tend to search for social excitements and pleasures. In some acute HPD, the individual may try to change career, switch jobs and even resident for the lustful crave for excitement.
• They have high sensitivity to disapproval and often try to make angry comments in every slightest misunderstanding. Such histrionic personality disorder symptoms may take sometimes to specify whether it's acute or mild.
• Seductive behaviour, impatience, getting overly intimate and exhibitionistic are histrionic personality disorder symptoms common in America. Others include somatic symptoms, crave for approval and gullible traits.
Causes of histrionic personality disorder
• Genetic things. A child can easily inherit such traits from his mom or dad. Professionals on this field gave a clear indication that most people with histrionic personality disorder inherited the trait, even though it can be "improved" based on social background.
• So it shows up mostly on early adulthood, such histrionic personality disorder can pop up as a result of an act to resolve with a conflicted emotion. For example, an attempt to get rid of anxiety due to the lost of loved one in an early age can be a cause.
Although it has to be spawned from narcissistic personality disorder, a behaviour that consist of pleasing people (especially some parents) before they can approve you builds up to HPD.
Histrionic personality disorder treatment
Treatment can be started with a well transparent relationship with the patient, transferring feelings and understanding step by step -- histrionic personality disorder treatment involving counselling.
• Unless a person is suffering from physical symptoms there's no need for medication. Facing fear and trying new things or working with therapy coaches as models is a good histrionic personality disorder treatment approach but only when approved by the individual.
