Definitions for histrionic personality disorder

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  1. histrionic personality disorder(Noun)

    A personality disorder characterized largely by exaggerated emotions, and inappropriate attention seeking and seductive behavior typically caused by undue amounts of trauma and related stress during childhood.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Histrionic Personality Disorder

    A personality disorder characterized by overly reactive and intensely expressed or overly dramatic behavior, proneness to exaggeration, emotional excitability, and disturbances in interpersonal relationships.


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