histrionic personality disorder

One of the 11 types of personality disorders with all or many of the following characteristics: overly dramatic behavior, overreaction to minor events, craving for attention and excitement, tantrums, appearance to others of shallowness and lack of genuineness, apparent helplessness and dependence, proneness to manipulative gestures, and threats of suicide. A person who has this disorder is commonly referred to as a“hysterical personality”or a “hysteric.”