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disorder are given to public displays of emotion-like becoming visibly angry and even shaking when only a minor disagreement unfolds, or saying they feel like they've lost a best friend, and life will never be the same, when an acquaintance moves out of town.

They can be very manipulative, in order to forge artificially close bonds with people and feel warmth or protection or a sense of family from those bonds.

They can also be extremely seductive and quickly want to become sexually active with people, in order to "act out"-and artificially feel-the experience of being in a tortuous, whirlwind, tragically flawed romance.  It's an add-water-and-stir kind of hyperbolic existence-a Lifetime movie, on steroids.

Prosecutors are making a big deal of the fact that the American Psychiatric Association (APA) is removing histrionic personality disorder from the next edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)-the official list of recognized psychiatric disorders.

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