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Social Implications
The prevalence of Histrionic Personality Disorder in women is apparent and urges a re-evaluation of culturally constructed ideas around what is considered normal emotional behaviour. The diagnostic approach classifies Histrionic Personality Disorder behaviour as “excessive”, considering the behaviour in comparison to a social understanding of normal emotionality.

With reference to former associations between femininity and hysteria, one must question whether this influences the ease in which female “sufferers” are diagnosed more readily than males, and whether a subjective cultural stigma that readily aligns intense emotionality with female behaviour is prevalent. This further enables us to question whether Histrionic Personality Disorder is a psychiatric disorder, or whether it is a “cultural disorder” where HPD sufferers are the victims.