According to statistical data, personality disorders in one or other manifestations are present in 6-10% of the world population.
Along with other types of psychopathy, hysterical personality disorder is a fairly common mental disorder that is present in 2-3% of the world's population.
Most often, hysterical psychopathy occurs in women( in ancient times this disorder was called "rabies of the uterus").
Hysterical personality type - assessments and accents
Hysterical psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by a pronounced need for attention and recognition by others, a tendency to dramatize any, even the most insignificant situations, the desire is constantly in the center of attention.
Despite the fact that hysterical features of behavior are also characteristic of other types of psychopathic personalities, hysterical personality disorder is characterized by individual traits and forms that distinguish it from all other mental disorders.
It can be said that hysteroid disorders form a certain personality store and character traits. The hysterical personality is characterized by an elevated emotional background, impressionability, frivolity, external strangeness and superficiality, with inner emptiness and wretchedness.
For people with a hysterical type of psychopathy, the main role in any life situations is played by impressions and emotions. Such people, often show increased social activity, selflessly performing public rituals, participating in all possible events and celebrations, try to follow fashionable trends, to be popular. Their idea of life is often very 
superficially, and judgments and views lack adequacy, maturity, depth.
People suffering from hysterical psychopathy are extremely trustful and quickly get attached to people and also quickly lose interest in them.
They also tend to romanticize and eroticize interpersonal relationships even when it is inappropriate. Therefore, in most cases, people with this disorder lead a rather chaotic personal life with a lot of rough but short-term novels and episodes.
Another distinctive feature of hysterical psychopathy is the blurred boundaries between reality and one's own fantasy. In view of this feature, reality, for a hysterical psychopath, often takes on bizarre forms and is constantly overgrown with imaginary details and details, and the ability to objectively think is reduced to a minimum.
Predisposing factors
In most cases, the basics of a hysterical personality are formed during puberty, when the emerging ego and sexuality come to the fore, and parents and their parenting frame move to the second. It was during this period that the person is most disposed to frivolous actions and various adventures and idle pastime.
The main factor contributing to the formation of a hysterical personality is considered to be a family capable of laying destructive evaluation and thought vectors. One of such destructive vectors is the idea imposed on the child on the low value of his sex in comparison with the opposite sex.
Subsequently, such a judgment, vaccinated since childhood, leads to the fact that a person's personal life will be directed to destructive struggle and the desire to seize total power over a representative of the opposite sex.
Another reason that can cause this disorder is the desire of some parents to suppress the revealing sexuality of the child. Some parents subconsciously want their child to remain a child and behave with him, respectively.
This kind of behavior can cause regress at a certain stage of a child's mental development, which can subsequently lead to a hysterical personality disorder.
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Symptoms of hysterical psychopathy are rather ambiguous and not always evident. This mental abnormality can manifest itself in different ways, depending on the circumstances.
There are several main symptoms that indicate a hysterical personality disorder:
- A person feels moral discomfort, if not attracts the attention of others.
- Communication with others is characterized by deceitful seduction, flirting, provocation, the desire to impress.
- A person regularly experiences a wide range of fast-changing emotions that are not deep in their experience.
- Actively uses its appearance to attract the attention of others.
- The speech of a person suffering from a hysterical disorder is characterized by an increased emotional color, confusion, confusion, lack of attention to detail.
- Characterized by the increased theatricality and dramatization of any situations and developments.
- Trust, suggestibility, list. A person is extremely trusting in relation to unfamiliar people. It is inclined to exaggerate and embellish and attach special importance to any relationship with unfamiliar people.
- Strongly expressed desire to manipulate other people in order to meet their own needs and desires.
Diagnostics and evaluation
For the diagnosis of this disease according to the international classification of ICD-10 diseases, it is necessary to have three signs characterizing general psychopathy in combination with three characteristics characteristic of a hysterical state.
Characteristics of general psychopathy include personality disorders and behavioral abnormalities. Hysterical symptoms include a tendency to dramatize, demonstrate emotions, instability and superficiality of the emotions displayed.
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What can I do?
In the period of compensation, treatment is reduced to preventive measures aimed at adjusting upbringing and assisting in social adaptation of the individual.
During the decompensation period, outpatient medication is administered with antidepressants, antipsychotics and stimulants. Different autogenic practices and trainings aimed at teaching the patient self-regulation mechanisms of their own behavior are important. In some cases, hypnosis is used.
In the treatment of this disorder, group therapy is widely used.
As a rule, the treatment of patients with hysterical personality disorder is rather complicated, due to the fact that people with this type of mental disorder tend to bring whims and emotional imbalance due to the disease directly into the treatment process.
Consequences and prevention of
Despite the absence of the possibility of complete recovery in this diagnosis, with timely detection, therapy and prevention of this disorder, the prognosis is generally favorable. People with this mental aberration adapt well enough in society.
In most cases, this disease does not lead to the development of additional complications.
Hysterical personality disorder in most cases does not prevent the patient from performing basic social functions and does not pose a danger to others.
As the prevention of a hysteroid personality disorder, it is recommended to create favorable conditions for the comprehensive development of the personality. 
It is recommended to lead a healthy personal and social life, communicate as much as possible with close people, discuss important situations and problems. Individual work with a psychologist is welcomed.
An important role in the prevention of hysterical psychopathy is played by social institutions, such as schools and pre-school institutions, institutions, work and others. Social institutions embody the basic principles on which society is built, learn to reckon with them and work productively.
Parents should pay special attention to the emotions and feelings of children, be interested in their inner world, help them to find his place in society.
