People with hysteroid type of personality hard not to noticeAfter all, they are doing everything possible to be the center of attention: they meticulously follow fashion, display mannerism, artistry, love to communicate with the public.
For them, life is a theatrical scene where you need to look your best.
What is isteroid?
The topic of hysteria in psychology, psychotherapy and psychiatry has a lot of offshoots, and the hysteroid type of personality is just one of them.
In the works Hippocrates a disease called “hysteria” was mentioned, which, in his opinion, was found exclusively in women, since “hysteria” is translated as “uterine rabies”.
From point of view Platoin hysteria, the uterus of a woman who cannot conceive becomes mad.
Of course, hysteroidity is not connected with uterine rabies, and the term “hysteria” has long been outdated. However this absurd diagnosis actively put women a hundred and one hundred and fifty years ago, and he was deleted from medical reference books only in the twentieth century.
Isteroid - this is demonstrativeness, coupled with emotional lability, mannerism, excessive sensitivity. People having this feature are called hysteroid.
Moreover, this name can be used to refer to individuals with a hysteroid type of personality, and those who suffer from hysterical psychopathy or, in other words, hysteroid personality disorder.
Despite the fact that people with the hysterical type of personality have a number of specific negative character traits and are capable of causing discomfort to others because of this, they are not mentally ill.
This is due to the fact that the hysterical personality type and hysterical accentuation - essentially the same thing.
And accentuation is not a category of mental illness.
Accentuation - personal feature in which the individual character traits are significantly expressed. This is a kind of boundary between the norm and pathology (personality disorder).
It can be called border norm. Unlike personality disorders, the features inherent in one or another accentuation are not expressed excessively and not too strongly affect a person’s life.
People with hysteroid accentuation (personality type) has a very strong desire to be the best, the one everyone looks at.
They easily manage to find a common language with others, they show perseverance in achieving goals. They are characterized by artistry, mannerism.
A characteristic sign of isteroid is hysteroid reactionwhich in colloquial speech is usually referred to as hysterics: a person sobs, wills, screams, can show aggression and behave frankly inadequate.
It always happens. publicly. If there are no people around the hysteroid, his reactions will be less pronounced.
Hysteroid psychopathy
Hysteroid personality disorder refers to mental disorders and requires correction.
The features inherent in the corresponding accentuation are expressed inadequately, which prevents both the hysteroid itself and the people around him.
This kind of personality disorder occurs 2 - 6.5% of people.
Despite the widespread belief that hysteria is peculiar to women, the disorder is observed with the same frequency in both sexes.
The following are observed in the behavior of the isteroid features:
- unstable self-esteem;
- a strong desire to be in the center of attention, even to the point that the patient is ready to do anything to attract the attention of others, even frankly inadequate things, or even staged attempts to commit suicide;
- unusual, extravagant tastes in clothes, the desire to attract attention with the help of external paraphernalia - cosmetics, jewelry;
- hysteroid reactions expressed in the form of public hysterics with tears and sometimes aggressiveness;
- the desire to lie about themselves, their merits (and patients come up with not only small facts, but also full, well-thought-out stories);
- superficiality, lightheadedness;
- the instability of social relations (the hysteroid is able to get carried away by someone, if he gives him enough attention - admires, admires - but if this attention decreases, he becomes frustrated and breaks contacts);
- excessive emotionality (if they are upset, then they fight hysterically, if they are angry, then violently, and so on), strongly pronounced mood swings;
- suggestibility, gullibility.
Experts believe that one of the main reasons for the development of hysterical personality disorder, - features of educationin which the parents put a rigid attitude in the child’s head that people belonging to different sexes are not equal and that the sex to which the baby belongs is less significant than the opposite one.
Accordingly, the boy receives a statement that men are worse than women, and a girl - that women are worse than men.
Also key reasons for the formation hysteroid psychopathy are:
- genetic features;
- various brain damage in the first years of life (traumatic brain injury, meningitis, encephalitis).
Usually, the disorder develops when there are several predisposing factors.
Treatment of hysterical psychopathy includes application:
- Psychotherapeutic methods: hypnotherapy, family psychotherapy. Also, the hysteroid is taught tricks that will help him control himself.
- Medication: antidepressants, antipsychotics. Drugs are selected depending on the symptoms of the patient.
Cure completely hysteroid personality disorder is impossible, but it is really controlled, so hysteroids can live a full life.
In the second half of life, the severity of the disorder may be reduced.
Personality type
Women
For women of hysteroid type, the following features are characteristic:
- Communication skills Hysteroid women easily manage to find a common language with others, communication for them is a means of receiving the attention they need like air, therefore introversion is not peculiar to them. They easily win the general interest when they get into a new team. However, their features do not always allow them to hold it.
- Love for fashion, some eccentricity in the selection of clothing, makeup, jewelry. Non-standard forms, bright, flashy colors - this is about the appearance of female hysteroid. In this case, most often their solutions are more likely successful than unsuccessful. They are interested in the world of fashion, often get ideas from there, and sometimes overly carefully follow the news.
- The desire to obtain unconditional approval from others, the desire to be in the spotlight. For this, the hysterical woman does everything that depends on her: she dresses brightly, plays to the public, showing all her artistry, gets a lot of acquaintances, adapts herself to those around her. But, despite all her attempts, she rarely gets it to the extent she wants.
- The desire to be as feminine as possible. Isteroids tend to overreact to their own sex and follow the stereotypes that are associated with it.
In the case of women, this is too strong a desire to be feminine, attractive in appearance.
Hysteroid girls rarely allow themselves to look simple; they don’t wear plain clothes that are good only for being comfortable.
- Frequent lack of stable close ties. Although there is no problem with a hysterical woman with communication, she almost never maintains close social ties. Communication for her - only a means of receiving attention, and nothing more than. If she stumbles upon a person who constantly gives her attention, praises, and exalts her, then she will admire him and draw closer. But quickly stop communicating, if the fountain of admiration runs out, and even starts to hate. If the hysterical woman is married, it is likely that in time she will file for divorce. The sense of responsibility of isteroid is usually rather poorly developed.
- Purposefulness. Isteroids show perseverance in the process of achieving their own goals, especially if they realize that this will allow them to receive recognition and attention from others. It is as if they do not know the fear of failure, they are so stubborn. They are also often involved in adventures.
- The dependence of self-esteem on the opinions of others. The self-esteem of a hysterical woman may rise sharply upward if she receives a large amount of attention, but after a time she falls, if there is no attention or any negative events occur.
Hysteroid women overly emotional. They are enthusiastic, laughing loudly, crying sobbing, their emotional range is unusually wide and varied. There are many creative people among them.
Hysteroid reactions are often observed. Hysteroid women love to interfere in public and easily find reasons for quarrels, scandals.
Men
Much of what refers to hysterical women, also applies to menincluding:
- communication skills;
- purposefulness;
- problems with maintaining strong social connections;
- artistry, love of the game to the public;
- the desire to get the attention of others at all costs;
- excessive emotionality, atypical for men, with which the hysteroid may be ashamed;
- the relationship of self-esteem with the attitude of others;
- interest in fashion, desire to dress with dignity, eccentricity in tastes;
- insufficient development of a sense of responsibility.
Like women, male hysteria often strive to realize themselves through creativity and can achieve significant success in this.
Many famous creative people - singers, musicians, artists, poets, writers, dancers - have a hysterical personality type.
Also for men with hysteroid type of personality is characteristic the pursuit of "maximum" masculinity, especially that which is expressed through appearance. They are doing everything possible to make their body look perfect: muscular, athletic, attractive.
Child
Isteroid behavior of the child begins to occur even in preschool age. Such children have little interest in games, like to perform at children's matinees, read poems, sing.
In this way, they receive admiration from both children and adults. In this case, they are angry when in their presence praise someone else.
Isteroid children are peculiar:
- artistry;
- increased emotionality;
- hysteroid reactions;
- the desire to get what you want at all costs;
- the need for the attention of others (and no matter which one, just not its absence);
- communication activity;
- indifference to the needs and desires of others, except in cases where the satisfaction of these needs and the fulfillment of desires leads to obtaining benefits;
- naivety, impressionability;
- craving for creativity;
- sufficiently high intelligence;
- perseverance.
The greatest peak of manifestation of hysteroid type traits is observed. in puberty.
A teenager, if he doesn't like something, can behave inadequate; conspicuous attempts at suicide (which usually do not lead to anything bad) and runaways from home are common.
How to communicate with isteroid?
Key recommendations:
- do not try to persuade the hysteroid;
- Do not show reciprocal aggression, especially during a tantrum: it will only inflame him;
- if you are not interested in close communication with him, do not get close and try to reduce communication to a dry exchange of information;
- if you want to make friends with the hysteroid, give him what he needs: praise him, admire him;
- be patient.
To find an approach to the isteroids in most cases is real, especially since there are few people with a purely hysterical type. Usually each person is a mixture of several psycho-types.
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