Hysterical people are typically imaginative, often with well-developed emotional intuition. They tend to look at the world in over impressionistic terms rather than focusing on details, so they tend to be headline readers. They gravitate toward activities that don t necessarily involve concentration for long hours on facts and details, but they are often very creative and colorful. Histrionic personality disorder is really hysteria run amok. It s hysterical personality traits carried to an extreme that is maladaptive.
Histrionic individuals can be quite colorful and outgoing.
They are In terms of treatment, insight-oriented psychotherapy seems to be the treatment of choice for histrionic individuals. Both individual and group therapy have been found to be useful. Essentially the therapist works on helping histrionic individuals clarify what they genuinely feel, clarify ways in which they lose functioning, in Narcissistic personality disorder. Narcissus was by legend a beautiful Grecian youth who fell madly in love with his own reflection when he happened to see it reflected in a pool one day. Narcissism refers to self-love, and loving self regard is something that is both desirable and necessary in ones inner world.