an empty bottle

In your opinion where does the empty feeling of the Histrionic come from? Is it from a lack of knowledge of oneself?
And more importantly, how can an HPD dim it down, if they can't get rid of it???

hi, i´m new to the forum.
i think the feelings of emptiness come from the "weak self" all these cluster b disorders have, either due to missing object relations which couldn´t be integrated to the self during childhood (lack of knowledge of oneself and the surrounding world, lack of empathy) or due to the huge amount of energy which is absorbed by defense mechanisms against fear and anxiety.

in my opinion the mechanisms of dimming it down are distraction, excitement seeking, being the center of attention, reassurance, which are actually many symptoms of the hpd.

to get rid of it they have to have therapy.

i myself had a 2 months relationship to a hpd woman last year, this time i didn´t know that such a disorder even exists. then i tried to find answers for her behaviour, read a lot about it and finally found the forum which helped me a lot.

Hi losthpd

Can you answer a couple of questions?
My friend (she actual lives next door to us) her life as degrade over the last year when she was with one person she was happy smiled and was calm since they have split it has been an emotional roll-a-coaster. and now very rarely see a smile on her face we know that she binge eats and puts on the weight and then loose it very fast she now drinks excessively
Even though in that time she has seen someone else but never had a good work to say about this person. To us it looks like depression and the fact that some days she stays in bed all day or stays in her pj all day. After what I have read both her and other sites it looks like she will push everything until it breaks.
1. How long would the depression normally last is this normal for hpd to be this for such a long time
2. Will she push everything to breaking which includes her child and job
We know we cant help her until she gets help her self at the moment things are quiet only because her parents have taken her and child away but that was the other thing she had the choice of going away with the person she was with and ended the relationship so she could go with parents her words were in April I want to go on holiday but not with him.