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Histrionic Personality Disorder is a chronic psychiatric condition that emerges in early adulthood and is characterized by excessive emotionality and a persistent need to be the center of attention across many areas of life. Individuals display dramatic, extroverted, and seductive behaviors in social professional and personal relationships. The disorder has an ego-syntonic structure meaning the individual does not perceive their own behaviors as problematic. Due to the lack of insight and inabil

Illness Anxiety Disorder is a condition in which an individual experiences uncontrollable beliefs and intense anxiety that they have or will develop a serious illness, resulting from the misinterpretation of physical symptoms. This concept was first defined by Salkovskis and Warwick and consists of two core constructs: illness belief and illness phobia. 【1】Illness belief refers to a strong conviction that one currently has an illness, while illness phobia involves fear of contracting an illness

Capgras syndrome is a rare and striking delusional disorder characterized by the belief that familiar people, objects, or sometimes even one’s own body have been replaced by identical impostors. It was first described in 1923 by Joseph Capgras and Reboul-Lachaux as “l’illusion des sosies” (the illusion of doubles). This condition is part of the family of delusional misidentification syndromes (DMS). The Capgras delusion is associated with a disruption in emotional recognition despite intact faci