How do you usually deal with...?

Question

histrionic people?

Answer 1

People like that are attention seekers. They seem upbeat but they are also self-centered and depend a lot on others for their own happiness.

Just don't give them the attention that they are seeking. Those types of people are looking for exactly that and if you respond, then you are giving them positive reinforcement to want to inforce the same behavior again and again.

Answer 2

I don't deal with them if I don't have to. Unfortunately, I married a man who's mother and sister are histrionic, and it's frustrating dealing with his....expectations of my histrionics even though I'm not being histrionic.

Answer 3

I smile at them, causing them acute discomfort and insecurity to the point of them snapping into a more conforming behavior, because of pure confusion

Answer 4

Phases of Formulation and Treatment
It is important to conceptualize a self-developmental course that can help the patient improve functioning and prevent future symptomatic flare-ups. In the following subsections, four phases of formulation as linked to treatment techniques are considered. The first of these concerns presenting complaints. The second considers the sometimes explosive shifts in state that may occur in persons with these disorders, and how presenting complaints may vary from one state of mind to another. The third considers the defensive avoidances habitually used by such patients to avoid knowing clearly what is happening in thought, feeling, and action. The fourth phase of formulation and treatment aims at identifying and changing the maladaptive meaning system that leads to repetition of maladaptive interpersonal patterns and impairing degradations of self-esteem. These four levels constitute a method of formulation called configurational analysis.

Before treatment in these four phases is described, a brief recapitulation is helpful. Diagnosis according to DSM-IV criteria does not lead to treatment choices insofar as this disorder is concerned; individualized case formulation of causation rather than description is indicated. Such formulation has to occur in the midst of crises, shifts in emotional state, and urgent demands; it cannot be swiftly accomplished. Thus treatment begins with general approaches and gradually deepens and specifies what is a central focus as formulations can be inferred. These formulations indicate less general, more individualized selections of interventions. The formulations and techniques of intervention are checked for validity and utility by careful observation of recurrent patterns and by appraisal of the effects of interventions in fostering useful change.




Phases of Formulation and Treatment

Clarifying Symptomatic Phenomena and Establishing a Therapeutic Alliance

Identifying and Dealing With Shifts in State of Mind

Identifying and Counteracting Defensive Control Processes

Identifying and Helping the Patient to Modify Irrational Beliefs and Contradictions in Schemas of Self

Answer 5

I find them to be either amusing or pathetic... usually the latter.

Answer 6

I pay attention to them. I like to hear what they have to say.

Answer 7

take them to the closest psychiatric doctor

Answer 8

Patiently and with my hand covering my smile...lol.

Answer 9

I Normally don,t.

Answer 10

with as deaf an ear as possible