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 DEFINITION
The histrionic disorder of the personality is characterized by a widespread and excessive emotiveness and a behavior of search of attention on the part of those who are around.
HOW IS IT EVIDENT?
- He does not feel comfortable in the situations in which it is not the center of attention (he likes, for example, being "a soul of the holiday")
- The interaction with the others is usually characterized by a behavior sexually seductively or provocative (they tend to seduce his new acquaintances for being seemingly much open seas or very seductive at the beginning of a friendship, although this attitude is diminishing the same way as has more confidence with the person in question)
- It shows a superficial emotional expression and quickly changeable (This happens in all his social, labor and professional relations)
- It uses permanently the physical aspect to attract attention on himself
- mismoTiene a way of speaking excessively subjective and lacking about tones (They express forceful opinions with a natural dramatic talent, but I argue them underlying they are usually vague and diffuse and rest neither on facts nor particulars)
- It shows autodramatization, teatralidad and exaggerated emotional expression (They can go so far as to bother the friends and acquaintances with his public emotive demonstrations, how for example to embrace with too many warmth persons who know little, etc.)
- It is suggestible, for example, easily easily influenced for the others or for the circumstances (your opinions and feelings are easily easily influenced for the others and for the fashions of the moment)
- He considers his relations more intimate than they are in fact (They treat almost any acquaintance as "my dear friend" and tutean to the whole world for the same motive)
HOW ARE THESE SUBJECTS?
The histrionic persons can have difficulties to reach the emotional intimacy in the romantic or sexual relations; also, often they grow sad when there are no center of attention. On the other hand, in all his actions they look for the immediate gratification, and when they begin to devote themselves to an activity, his interest disappears quickly. The histrionic ones usually present disorders of somatización and major depressive disorder.
PREDOMINANCE
As for the predominance, it is believed that approximately 2 - 3 % of the general population endures the histrionic disorder of the personality; and as for the sex, in the clinical ambience a major predominance has been observed in women, although in the general population it is believed that the differences between men and women are not significant.
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