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Categories: Women and psychology, Cluster B personality disorders, Articles with short description, Medical mnemonics

histrionic personality disorder Causes of histrionic personality disorder Epidemiology of histrionic personality disorder Histrionia histrionic personality

Histrionic personality disorder is defined by the American Psychiatric Association as a personality disorder characterized by a pattern of excessive attention-seeking behaviors, usually beginning in early adulthood, including inappropriate seduction and an excessive desire for approval. Wikipedia

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A Cluster B personality disorder Wikipedia Disambiguation

Personality disorder characterized by excessive emotionality and attention-seeking Wikidata

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. Wiktionary

Patients with histrionic personality disorder are sometimes accused of being attention whores. Wiktionary

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borderline personality disorder