Histrionic personality disorder
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Histrionic personality disorder is characterized by a pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking.
People with histrionic personality disorder continually demand to be the center of attention and often try to do so by dressing and acting in inappropriately seductive and provocative ways and by expressing themselves very dramatically.
Doctors diagnose histrionic personality disorder based on specific symptoms, including discomfort due to not being the center of attention, inappropriately seductive or provocative interaction with others, and dramatic behavior and expression of emotion.
Psychotherapy that focuses on underlying conflicts may help.Personality disorders are long-lasting, pervasive patterns of thinking, perceiving, reacting, and relating that cause the person significant distress and/or impair the person
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