Skip to main content

I've noticed that we have all kinds of posters on these forums. And we think we know each other. Sometimes we're guilty of saying someone is "crazy" or mentally ill. Or at least, of thinking that. And there are different kinds of mental illness. But, apparently, we're right some of the time. This is one type of mental illness that I think we have all seen (or are seeing).

Neurotic Solution: Histrionic Type


The strategy of the Histrionic solution can be interpreted from the discussion by John M.Oldham and Lois B. Morris of the Dramatic personality style.


Histrionic Personality Disorder
Dramatic Personality Type
Self-Effacing Solution




Neurotic Needs

Compulsive Attachments

Compulsive Aversions

* attention
* expressiveness
* emotionalism
* romanticism
* impressing others
* captivating others
* glamor
* amusement
* affection
* alliances
* an audience
* appreciation
* being entertaining
* admiration
* feelings
* dramatics
* demonstrativeness



* being ignored
* being unattractive
* being unlovable
* being uninteresting
* being abandoned
* being helpless
* frustration
* not getting their own way
* not getting compliance from others
* being treated unfairly

Neurotic Solution

American Psychiatric Association (1994, pp. 657-58)





Excessive emotionality and attention seeking.


* is uncomfortable in situations in which he or she is not the center of attention;


* interaction with others is often characterized by inappropriate sexually seductive or provocative behavior;


* displays rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotions;


* consistently uses physical appearance to draw attention to self;


* has a style of speech that is excessively impressionistic and lacking in detail;


* shows self-dramatization, theatricality, and exaggerated expression of emotion;


* is suggestible, i.e., easily influenced by others or circumstances;


* considers relationships to be more intimate than they actually are.

Neurotic Beliefs and Attitudes

Rationalizations and reinforcements of the compulsive attachments and aversions and the neurotic solution that they engender.

Aaron T. Beck, Arthur M. Freeman and associates (pg. 362)

* I am an interesting, exciting person.
* In order to be happy I need other people to pay attention to me.
* Unless I entertain or impress people, I am nothing.
* If I don't keep others engaged with me, they won't like me.
* The way to get what I want is to dazzle or amuse people.
* If people don't respond very positively to me, they are rotten.
* It is awful for people to ignore me.
* I should be the center of attention.
* I don't have to bother to think things through�I can go by my "gut" feeling.
* If I entertain people, they will not notice my weaknesses.
* I cannot tolerate boredom.
* If I feel like doing something, I should go ahead and do it.
* People will pay attention only if I act in extreme ways.
* Feelings and intuition are much more important that rational thinking and planning (362).



Sound familiar to anyone?
Original Post

Replies sorted oldest to newest

Most personality disordered people are prone to be angry. Their anger is always sudden, raging, frightening and without an apparent provocation by an outside agent. It would seem that people suffering from personality disorders are in a CONSTANT state of anger, which is effectively suppressed most of the time. It manifests itself only when the person's defenses are down, incapacitated, or adversely affected by circumstances, inner or external
Remember demonic possession?

Most educated people today do not try to explain epilepsy, brain damage, genetic disorders, neurochemical imbalances, feverish hallucinations, or troublesome behavior by appealing to the idea of demonic possession. Yet, at one time, all of Europe and America would have accepted such an explanation. Furthermore, we had our experts--the priests and theologians--to tell us how to identify the possessed and how to exorcise the demons. An elaborate theological framework bolstered this worldview, and an elaborate set of social rituals and behaviors validated it on a continuous basis. In fact, every culture, no matter how primitive and pre-scientific, had a belief in some form of demonic possession. It had its shamans and witch doctors who performed rituals to rid the possessed of their demons. In their own sociocognitive contexts, such beliefs and behaviors were seen as obviously correct, and were constantly reinforced by traditional and customary social behaviors and expectations.

Most educated people today believe that the behaviors of witches and other possessed persons--as well as the behaviors of their tormentors, exorcists, and executioners--were enactments of social roles. With the exception of religious fundamentalists (who still live in the world of demons, witches, and supernatural magic), educated people do not believe that in those days there really were witches, or that demons really did invade bodies, or that priests really did exorcise those demons by their ritualistic magic. Yet, for those who lived in the time of witches and demons, these beings were as real as anything else they experienced. In Spanos' view, what is true of the world of demons and exorcists is true of the psychological world filled with phenomena such as repression of childhood sexual trauma and its manifestation in such disorders as MPD.
Ontological Proof That Elvis Is Alive And Well And Working At 7-Eleven

I'm sitting in my living room half-watching Elvis: King of Entertainment, a Christmas/birthday present from Whitley, my sister-in-law—who knows my soft spot for the King of Crooners. It's a sort of Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Elvis Aaron Presley And Other Things You Didn't Think To Ask.

But then I realized that I may have never told you my theory—or rather, my proof—so here it is: my Ontological Proof That Elvis Is Alive And Well And Working At 7-Eleven.

It's simple, really. Take the letters of his name: ELVIS PRESLEY...

Now rearrange them. (You may find the Internet Anagram Server useful. Or not.)

The letters in the name ELVIS can be rearranged to spell LIVES. Who could die with a name like that?

And the PRESLEY part, well, that's a little more challenging—after a few false starts, you should come up with the word SLERPEY which is, more-or-less, the trademark product of 7-Eleven convenience stores. You thought those stories of gas station sightings were a myth, but my hypothesis suggests he actually works for them now.

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
DID was previously called multiple personal disorder but in 1994 the name was changed to reflect the changes in understanding of the disorder. It involves a disturbance in identity whereby two or more separate personalities or identities, known as alters, control an individual's behavior. “Personality” here is defined as “enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself” (American Psychiatric Association, 1994, p. 270). When under the control of one alter, they may exhibit different behaviors, mannerisms, personalities, gender orientation, and physical properties (such as handedness, allergies and eyesight) and might not remember what transpired when another personality was in control. They may have as many as 100 alters or as few as two, though the average is 10 distinct ones, and they are stable over time. It is sometimes known as “disaggregate self state” because it is dissociated parts of the mind influencing behavior in DID patients.

Personalities may be aware of each other to some degree though only one will be in control at a given time; transitions are typically sudden and precipitated by stress (Morrison, 1995). Usually personalities are aware of loss of time when another personality is interacting with the environment. (Morrison, 1995).
Symptoms

* Multiple personalities, on average 10 though there can be as few as two and as many as 100
* Exhibits different personalities, behavior and even physical characteristics
* Episodes of amnesia or time loss (i.e.: don't remember people, places, etc.)
* Often they are depressed or suicidal
* Self-mutilation is common
* 1/3 of patients experience visual or auditory hallucinations
* The average age for the development of alters is 5.9 years
* Depressive symptoms
* An inability to focus in school (in childhood)
* Conduct problems (in childhood)

To be clinically diagnosed with DID, the following symptoms must be identified:

* The presence of at least two distinct personalities with their own relatively enduring pattern of sensing, thinking about, and relating to self and environment
* At least two of these personalities assume control of behavior repeatedly
* Extensive inability to recall major personal information cannot be attributed to common forgetfulness
* This behavior is not caused directly by substance abuse or a general medical conditio
quote:
Originally posted by vick13:
I've noticed that we have all kinds of posters on these forums. And we think we know each other. Sometimes we're guilty of saying someone is "crazy" or mentally ill. Or at least, of thinking that. And there are different kinds of mental illness. But, apparently, we're right some of the time. This is one type of mental illness that I think we have all seen (or are seeing).

Neurotic Solution: Histrionic Type


The strategy of the Histrionic solution can be interpreted from the discussion by John M.Oldham and Lois B. Morris of the Dramatic personality style.


Histrionic Personality Disorder
Dramatic Personality Type
Self-Effacing Solution




Neurotic Needs

Compulsive Attachments

Compulsive Aversions

* attention
* expressiveness
* emotionalism
* romanticism
* impressing others
* captivating others
* glamor
* amusement
* affection
* alliances
* an audience
* appreciation
* being entertaining
* admiration
* feelings
* dramatics
* demonstrativeness



* being ignored
* being unattractive
* being unlovable
* being uninteresting
* being abandoned
* being helpless
* frustration
* not getting their own way
* not getting compliance from others
* being treated unfairly

Neurotic Solution

American Psychiatric Association (1994, pp. 657-58)





Excessive emotionality and attention seeking.


* is uncomfortable in situations in which he or she is not the center of attention;


* interaction with others is often characterized by inappropriate sexually seductive or provocative behavior;


* displays rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotions;


* consistently uses physical appearance to draw attention to self;


* has a style of speech that is excessively impressionistic and lacking in detail;


* shows self-dramatization, theatricality, and exaggerated expression of emotion;


* is suggestible, i.e., easily influenced by others or circumstances;


* considers relationships to be more intimate than they actually are.

Neurotic Beliefs and Attitudes

Rationalizations and reinforcements of the compulsive attachments and aversions and the neurotic solution that they engender.

Aaron T. Beck, Arthur M. Freeman and associates (pg. 362)

* I am an interesting, exciting person.
* In order to be happy I need other people to pay attention to me.
* Unless I entertain or impress people, I am nothing.
* If I don't keep others engaged with me, they won't like me.
* The way to get what I want is to dazzle or amuse people.
* If people don't respond very positively to me, they are rotten.
* It is awful for people to ignore me.
* I should be the center of attention.
* I don't have to bother to think things through�I can go by my "gut" feeling.
* If I entertain people, they will not notice my weaknesses.
* I cannot tolerate boredom.
* If I feel like doing something, I should go ahead and do it.
* People will pay attention only if I act in extreme ways.
* Feelings and intuition are much more important that rational thinking and planning (362).



Sound familiar to anyone?


OMG you could be talking about my ex! LOL
Vick, on the DID thing, did you know one personality can take a sleeping pill and go sleep, while another one can be wide awake?
That is so amazing and really does show 'mind over matter'. Science needs to study how the brain can do that. Think of the things that could be 'cured' by an alternate personality.

Add Reply

Post

Untitled Document
×
×
×
×
Link copied to your clipboard.
×