Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD)

Lively, spunky, dramatic, flirtatiou, function at a high level, success socially and professionally.
Alternate between extremes of idealization and devaluation.
Easily bored with low tolerance for frustration or delayed gratification
Histrionic Mnemonic
P - Provocative, seductive, exhibitionist behavior (kissing strangers, dancing wildly, dating 5 or more)
R - Relationships believed to be more intimate than they are ("Intimacy is through the roof")
A - Attention, constant seekign, must be the center ("You're not paying attentoin to me.")
I - Influenced easily, suggestibility by others or circumstances ("Competitive with others in a room")
S - Speech (style), lacks genuine empathy or details, shallow ("those people are scum, I was top 5%")
E - Emotional lability, sensitive to criticism or disapproval (angry, laughs or lashes out at the source)
M - Make Up, Excessive concern ("Don't touch my face"), physical appearance used to draw attention
E - Exagerated emotions, self-dramatization, theatrical ("He/she intellectually abuses me")
Somatic, excessive worry about health, manufacture "pain" symptoms (garners attenion, manipulates)
Rapidly shifting emotional states that appear superficial or exagerated to others
Making rash decisions
Childhood events which caused anxiety, deaths in immediate family, divorce of parents and genetics.
More often diagnosed in women than in men.