According to our book, Abnormal Psychology Clinical and Scientific Perspectives states, “The main features of histrionic personality disorder concern excessive emotionality and attention seeking.” I believe this case study of Ms. Fuentes provided evidence that one could infer that she desired attention with some type of motif. For instance, Ms. Fuentes expressed shallow emotions, saying she had felt abandon by her neurosurgeon and eventually broke down and cried after telling her story about her fall. In addition, she stated that her suicidal comments were “no big deal” and the comments were only to get revenge on her husband to teach him a lesson. She laughed then said, “Oh wow” and concluded with a nonchalant statement. I believe those behaviors relate to the DSM-5 Histrionic Personality disorder criteria including: rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotions, her behavior mimics a style of speech that is excessively impressionistic and lacking detail. Lastly, she shows self-dramatization.
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Therefore, I identified two more criteria that relates to the diagnosis of Histrionic personality disorder. First states, “Interaction with others is often characterized by inappropriate sexually seductive or provocative behavior.” Secondly, the DSM-5 Histrionic Personality disorder marks that individuals consider relationships to be more intimate than they actually are. For example, the case study mentioned that Ms. Fuentes flirted with male interviewer who told her she was the best-woman dressed in the ER. Behaviors such as this provides evidence that she flirts with the interviewer because she considers the comments to be more intimate than they actually are. Also, her flirty behavior could be perceived as sexually seductive or provocative behavior especially calling the doctors by their first name as mentioned in the case
Therefore, I identified two more criteria that relates to the diagnosis of Histrionic personality disorder. First states, “Interaction with others is often characterized by inappropriate sexually seductive or provocative behavior.” Secondly, the DSM-5 Histrionic Personality disorder marks that individuals consider relationships to be more intimate than they actually are. For example, the case study mentioned that Ms. Fuentes flirted with male interviewer who told her she was the best-woman dressed in the ER. Behaviors such as this provides evidence that she flirts with the interviewer because she considers the comments to be more intimate than they actually are. Also, her flirty behavior could be perceived as sexually seductive or provocative behavior especially calling the doctors by their first name as mentioned in the case