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Histrionic Personality Disorder Learning Center
Symptoms could include:
- Mood Swings
- Obsessions
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Impatient
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Sensitive to Criticism
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Disregard For Others
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Easily Frustrated
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Difficulty Paying Attention
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Fear of Disapproval
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Exaggerates Emotions
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Volatile Mood
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Tends to be Intolerant of Frustration
- Acting Out
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Attention Seeking Behavior
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Inappropriate Sexual Behavior
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Dependent Attachment
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Dominated By Others
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Dresses Seductively
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People with this disorder are usually able to function at a high level and can be successful socially and at work.
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DSM-IV-TR lists eight symptoms that form the diagnostic criteria for HPD: Center of attention: Patients with HPD experience discomfort when they are not the center of attention. Sexually seductive: Patients with HPD displays inappropriate sexually...
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Mood disorders are mental disorders characterized by periods of depression, sometimes alternating with periods of elevated mood.
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Research on the connection between a person's mood and the food he or she eats has reveled what many people have long believed, that eating a certain food can influence a person's mood—at least temporarily. Research by Judith Wurtman, a professor ...
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An obsession is an unwelcome, uncontrollable, and persistent idea, thought, image, or emotion that a person cannot help thinking even though it creates significant distress or anxiety.
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Acting out is defined as the release of out-of-control aggressive or sexual impulses in order to gain relief from tension or anxiety . Such impulses often result in antisocial or delinquent behaviors. The term is also sometimes used in regard to a...
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A defense mechanism whereby an individual expresses feelings through behavior rather than word. The term "acting out" was first coined to describe the behavior exhibited by a patient in expressing inner feelings about his or her psychoanalyst in a...
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