Is Drama Queen (or King) a Real Diagnosis?

[Michelle420]

Histrionic personality disorder goes far beyond bids for attention.

People with the disorder always seek to be the center of attention in social situations, and often come across as inappropriately seductive, flirtatious and provocative, according to the DSM-5. They’re also overly influenced and suggestible, and can be prone to anger. Events that would irritate others instead provoke rages and temper tantrums.

In histrionic personality disorder, people tend to be dramatic “quite often,” Fraum says. They “don’t have a strong center to their personality.” Instead, they’re ruled by their emotions, which are subject to extreme changes in short periods of time. And, he says, they’re also extremely vain and narcissistic.

Attachment to other people can become dysfunctional as “you start getting rejected, let down and abandoned,” Fraum says. Substance abuse and other self-destructive behaviors can result, such as multiple affairs, gambling and compulsive shopping.

Is Drama Queen or King a Real Diagnosis - US News

 

[Harry Dresden]

oh sorry.....thought this was about Dotcom.....

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Histrionic personality disorder goes far beyond bids for attention.

People with the disorder always seek to be the center of attention in social situations, and often come across as inappropriately seductive, flirtatious and provocative, according to the DSM-5. They’re also overly influenced and suggestible, and can be prone to anger. Events that would irritate others instead provoke rages and temper tantrums.

In histrionic personality disorder, people tend to be dramatic “quite often,” Fraum says. They “don’t have a strong center to their personality.” Instead, they’re ruled by their emotions, which are subject to extreme changes in short periods of time. And, he says, they’re also extremely vain and narcissistic.

Attachment to other people can become dysfunctional as “you start getting rejected, let down and abandoned,” Fraum says. Substance abuse and other self-destructive behaviors can result, such as multiple affairs, gambling and compulsive shopping.

Is Drama Queen or King a Real Diagnosis - US News

That there's now a DSM 5 shows there's a lot of made-up stuff in psychiatry. Diagnoses come and go, new things get invented out of thin air, old things disappear from the DSM. Think a great many of them exist solely to benefit people who'll then treat it.

"What must they have done in the olden days?"

"Taken a hot bath."

 

[Michelle420]

oh sorry.....thought this was about Dotcom.....

 

[Michelle420]

Histrionic personality disorder goes far beyond bids for attention.

People with the disorder always seek to be the center of attention in social situations, and often come across as inappropriately seductive, flirtatious and provocative, according to the DSM-5. They’re also overly influenced and suggestible, and can be prone to anger. Events that would irritate others instead provoke rages and temper tantrums.

In histrionic personality disorder, people tend to be dramatic “quite often,” Fraum says. They “don’t have a strong center to their personality.” Instead, they’re ruled by their emotions, which are subject to extreme changes in short periods of time. And, he says, they’re also extremely vain and narcissistic.

Attachment to other people can become dysfunctional as “you start getting rejected, let down and abandoned,” Fraum says. Substance abuse and other self-destructive behaviors can result, such as multiple affairs, gambling and compulsive shopping.

Is Drama Queen or King a Real Diagnosis - US News

That there's now a DSM 5 shows there's a lot of made-up stuff in psychiatry. Diagnoses come and go, new things get invented out of thin air, old things disappear from the DSM. Think a great many of them exist solely to benefit people who'll then treat it.

"What must they have done in the olden days?"

"Taken a hot bath."

Posting was intended in more in a facetious purpose

 

[Cecilie1200]

Histrionic personality disorder goes far beyond bids for attention.

People with the disorder always seek to be the center of attention in social situations, and often come across as inappropriately seductive, flirtatious and provocative, according to the DSM-5. They’re also overly influenced and suggestible, and can be prone to anger. Events that would irritate others instead provoke rages and temper tantrums.

In histrionic personality disorder, people tend to be dramatic “quite often,” Fraum says. They “don’t have a strong center to their personality.” Instead, they’re ruled by their emotions, which are subject to extreme changes in short periods of time. And, he says, they’re also extremely vain and narcissistic.

Attachment to other people can become dysfunctional as “you start getting rejected, let down and abandoned,” Fraum says. Substance abuse and other self-destructive behaviors can result, such as multiple affairs, gambling and compulsive shopping.

Is Drama Queen or King a Real Diagnosis - US News

That there's now a DSM 5 shows there's a lot of made-up stuff in psychiatry. Diagnoses come and go, new things get invented out of thin air, old things disappear from the DSM. Think a great many of them exist solely to benefit people who'll then treat it.

"What must they have done in the olden days?"

"Taken a hot bath."

In the old days, they'd have suffered through with substandard personal interactions and life functionality.

"The olden days" isn't necessarily the best guide to go by when it comes to medicine.

 

[Diana1180]

I have a 15 year old daughter... I beleive this is in fact a real diagnosis.

Is there a cure???