Saturday, March 31, 2012

Two other kinds of personalities

Coming from the previous post on borderline and paranoid personality, maybe today we could talk about two other personality disorders - these two are very common in daily parlance, though those speaking of it quite often have little idea what's under the words...


Histrionic personality disorder

People with histrionic personality tend to be self-centered and attention-seeking. They have a shallow, labile affect which they display in a dramatic manner. They are often flirtatious and inappropriately seductive – however, their sexual feelings, like their emotions, are often shallow and they often fail to achieve orgasm despite elaborate displays of passion.

They are overconcerned with physical attractiveness. They often repeat themselves, often to achieve self-deception (as in believing in one's own lies)

Narcissistic personality disorder

People with this disorder have a grandiose sense of self-importance and are boastful and pretentious. They are preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, beauty and intellectual brilliance. They think that they are special and entitled to special services and favors.

The phenotypic feature is thus the tendency to exploit others, as well as being envious of other's success.

Placebo: Ahh it is really difficult to write an article a day.

1 comment:

  1. Indeed it is difficult to write an article a day.

    It is even harded to write a good article a day...

    Maybe it is not so bad an idea to split a long article into a few small chunks? I find that easier to read (but then it might be because my language ability is poor and also I am impatient! Is that a personality disordered?)

    Anyway, one thing you can do if you want to put up an article everyday is to write about news...

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