what i love about Dungeon Meshi is how Ryoko Kui slowly eases you into how fucked up its world and story are, she doesn’t throw all the drama and darkness in your face right away, sure it starts with tragedy but she then walks you through, to, and beyond it in a safer and less overwhelming way by focusing on its comedic and lighthearted parts with sprinles of more serious and darker ones thrown in, slowly making the latter parts be of bigger importance the deeper into the dungeon the characters go, which, in my opinion, makes its dramatic and heartwrenching moments much more impactful because you feel a lot more connected to its world and characters once you get to where everything is going, you start to care about them because of their positivity and beauty so you want to stay through their negativity and ugliness.
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Clinical Formulations of Histrionic PD
Clinical formulations and case conceptualisations are introduced in this post.
These are all generalisations and theories of how HPD develops, not something that is supposed to be true for everyone with HPD.
Psychodynamic model
Histrionics lack relationships with maternal caregivers so turn to paternal caregivers for love and attention
Learn that they can get attention through sexualised behaviours
Men with HPD may be hypomasculine (effeminate) or hypermasculine if their paternal caregiver is emotionally unavailable
Biosocial model
Mood swings, very emotional
Biggest influences are environmental: caregivers’ reinforcement of attention-seeking & manipulative behaviours and histrionic role models
Children learn they can use cuteness, charm, attractiveness & seductive behaviours to get what they want/need (attention from caregivers)
Histrionics are externally focused and largely ignore their internal worlds
Histrionic behaviours are self-perpetuating
Cognitive-Behavioural model
Two main underlying assumptions: “I am inadequate and unable to handle life by myself” and “I must be loved by everyone to be worthwhile.”
Need attention and approval from others, and in a similar way to DPD feel they are inadequate to look after themselves and need others
Hypersensitive to rejection & criticism (similar to DPD, NPD and AvPD)
Feel they must perform for others to gain approval and self-esteem
Thinking is “impressionistic, global, and unfocused” and leads to over-generalisation, emotional dysregulation, and splitting
Two subtypes:
The controlling type, who tries to gain control through dramatics and manipulation; they struggle with reading others’ emotions and are shallow, self-centred, and uncomfortable without immediate assurance; lack empathy.
The reactive type tries to gain approval and reassurance.
Interpersonal model
People with HPD learnt that their entertainment value and appearance was more important to others than their worth as a person
Learnt that physical appearance and charm can be used to manipulate others
Their childhood homes were unpredictable and probably involved substance abuse
The unpredictability was dramatic and interesting (unlike the “primitive” and life-threatening chaos associated with BPD)
Histrionics were likely rewarded (i.e. had their physical and emotional needs met) for their disabilities, illnesses and complaints
Histrionics “exhibit a strange fear of being ignored, together with a wish to be loved and taken care of by important others, who can be controlled through charm or guile.”
Integrative model
Histrionics experience reactive mood swings and have high levels of energy
They are hyper-responsive and externally oriented
“The self-view of the histrionic will be some variant of the theme “I am sensitive and everyone should admire and approve of me.” The world-view will be some variant of “Life makes me nervous so I am entitled to special care and consideration.” Life goal is some variant of the theme “Therefore, play to the audience, and live in the moment.””
Cargivers’ style based in reciprocity, i.e. “I’ll give you attention if you do what I want”, with minimal or inconsistent discipline and probable neglect
Internal experiences of HPD are “denial of one’s real or inner self; a preoccupation with externals; the need for excitement and attention-seeking, which leads to a superficial charm and interpersonal presence; and the need for external approval. This, in turn, further reinforces the dissociation and denial of the real or inner self from the public self, and the cycle continues.”
- From Sperry, Handbook of Diagnosis and Treatment of DSM-5 Personality Disorders (2016)
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Reading ur tags about aizawa being kind of a jerk makes me think like, I hope it's some kinda twist that he's just repressing his feelings and lashing out with anger/resentment/being a jerk because he didn't use any outlets for dealing with his friends deaths
Cuz it's true his vibe changed, I just hope it's for a reason
And doing something like that^^ wouldn't justify it, but it would make it feel realistic imo
Mans is emotionally constipated and has gone through a lot of trauma, so though it doesn't surprise me exactly that he's being a jerk, I hope there's a breaking point or something
Yeah, I mean, that maybe is it, since it happened around the shirakurogiri arc, but I honestly don't know if Horikoshi thinks that deeply about his characters.
I will be happy if it's eventually addressed and he can be a good character again, but I kinda doubt it will? It's not him as a character I have a problem with it's the writing it just feels . bad.
I also don't know if Midnight's death will actually ever be addressed in any meaningful capacity. There was no reason for her to die except for a moment of shock value.
My solution for all of this is make the Loudspeaker AU canon.
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