I have pondered many a time whether one diagnosis I am missing is hysterical personality disorder... for...
My life is extremely boring but there always seems to be some drama going on that even I care not to entertain no more...
Head status...
Body status...
Immigration status...
Financial status...
And, all other unspecified status...
While, there ain't no nothing really in my life...
I go to work. When permitted, do some studying. I do exercise... more importantly, I eat, drink, pee pee, poo poo, sleep... blah blah blah...
It is like there ain't no nothing happening in my life but some hysterical part of my existence can not stop trying to come up with some strange scenarios independent of my contribution... 8-O lol
Then, I thought of this lady I once knew but haven't seen for eons...
Everytime I bumped into her on the street...
There was always traumatic kind of drama.... never-ending drama and it felt as if there was no way to politely end the conversation because of... drama... drama...
It always felt as if her drama was dragging me down along with her...
Finally, one day, your psychotic and neurotic me was in a session with my shrink at the time...
I told him that somehow that woman had some really unwanted impact on me... with her dramas...
My shrink looked at me and spit this sentence out of his mouth.
"Avoid her (for your own sake). She's got hysterical personality disorder."
Of course, at some point, yours hypochondriac asked the doctor...
"I always have something to complain and cope about. Looking at her, do I also have hysterical personality disorder?"
The wonderful doctor must have looked at me with due amusement and perhaps with a smile....
"You are psychotic." (Oops... sorry, symptoms, for a second, I almost forgot where you are... 8-O lol)
So..... in any case, I look up the current DSM criteria for my potential Hysterical Personality Disorder.... and ponder... How many of them fit my profile? 8-O 8-X
God bless me with ignorance....
A pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
- is uncomfortable in situations in which he or she is not the center of attention
- interaction with others is often characterized by inappropriate sexually seductive or provocative behavior
- displays rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotions
- consistently uses physical appearance to draw attention to self
- has a style of speech that is excessively impressionistic and lacking in detail
- shows self-dramatization, theatricality, and exaggerated expression of emotion
- is suggestible, i.e., easily influenced by others or circumstances
- considers relationships to be more intimate than they actually are.
At the same time, what is the purpose of diagnosis? To figure out what you could do about to help yourself and the others, I guess.
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