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Symptoms List

Symptoms could include:
  • Attention Seeking Behavior
  • Dependent Attachment
  • Disregard For Others
  • Disturbance Of Attention
  • Dominated By Others
  • Dresses Seductively
  • Easily Frustrated
  • Exaggerates Emotions
  • Fear Of Disapproval
  • Impatient
  • Inappropriate Sexual Behavior
  • Sensitive To Criticism
  • Tends to be Intolerant of Frustration
  • Volatile Mood

Symptoms Overview Articles

Histrionic personality disorder
People with this disorder are usually able to function at a high level and can be successful socially and at work. Symptoms include: Act or look overly seductive; Believe that relationships are more intimate than they actually are; Blame failure o...
Source:ADAM
Date:February 6, 2008
Histrionic personality disorder
DSM-IV-TRlists 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 ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders

Specific Symptom Articles

Acting Out
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.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Acting Out
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 psychotherapy session.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Mood Disorders
Mood disorders are mental disorders characterized by periods of depression, sometimes alternating with periods of elevated mood. While many people go through sad or elated moods from time to time, people with mood disorders suffer from severe or prolonged mood states that disrupt their daily functioning.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Overview of Mood Disorders
Detailed information on the most common types of mood disorders, including major depression, manic depression (bipolar disorder), dysthymia, seasonal affective disorder, and suicide
Source:StayWell
Mood-Food Relationships
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 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has focused on how certain foods alter one ' s mood by influencing the level of certain brain chemicals called neurotransmitters .
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Well Being
Understanding Affective (Mood) Disorders
Understanding Affective (Mood) DisordersMost people have mood changes now and then. One day they may feel cranky and the next day, they feel great.
Source:StayWell
Treating Affective (Mood) Disorders
Treating Affective (Mood) DisordersAffective disorders are disorders of your mood. They includedepressionandbipolar disorder(also calledmanic-depression).
Source:StayWell
How to 'Catch' a Good Mood
Colds and the flu can be passed from one person to another, but did you realize that emotions can be passed just as easily?
Source:StayWell
Don't Catch a Bad Mood
Don't Catch a Bad MoodLike the common cold, human emotions are highly contagious."It's easy to get swept up in somebody else's emotions," says James Page, M.D., a psychiatrist in Greenville, SC.
Source:StayWell
Baby Blues: Mood Swings or More Serious?
For many women, the "baby blues" pass quickly. For others, the feelings of sadness don't ease and may become worse.
Source:StayWell
Obsession
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. Obsessive ideas seem unnatural or alien to those who have them, but are nevertheless recognized as originating from the person ' s own thoughts- they are not seen as delusions sent or controlled by an outside party.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
When thoughts become obsessions
What separates obsessive-compulsive disorder from more common behaviors? A description of OCD and common treatment methods.
Source:StayWell
Positive Ways to Accept Criticism
Do you hate being criticized even when you know you've made a mistake? If so, it's no wonder -- criticism can make people feel incompetent, angry and just plain awful.
Source:StayWell
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