Paraphilias are rare and often overlooked psychiatric conditions characterized by intense, atypical, and recurrent sexual urges or behaviors. This case report describes a 33-year-old woman with comorbid bipolar I disorder and histrionic personality disorder, presenting with hypersexuality and risky sexual practices, suggestive of quantitative paraphilia. The patient's behavior included group sexual encounters, unprotected intercourse, and impulsive dissemination of explicit images via social...

Pseudologia fantastica (PF), commonly known as pathological lying or mythomania, is a psychiatric phenomenon characterized by persistent, pervasive, and often compulsive lying. PF involves the intricate crafting of highly exaggerated narratives across various domains of life, including personal background, accomplishments, and interpersonal connections. Individuals afflicted with PF earnestly subscribe to these fabricated accounts, often perceiving them as genuine truths. Unlike conventional...

Temperament classification dates back to ancient Greece when Hippocrates proposed his humoral theory regarding the classifications of behavior. The postulated temperaments, consisting of sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic, remained in use as recently as the 20th century. Emil Kraepelin classified manic-depressive patients as depressive, hypomanic, or irritable, which in turn correlated with melancholic, sanguine, or choleric dispositions. Temperament classifications evolved into the...

Dependent personality disorder describes a pervasive and excessive need to be taken care of that leads to submissive and clinging behaviors with fears of separation. The pattern of dependent behavior typically begins in late adolescence and early adulthood. The submissive behaviors stem from the self-perception of being unable to function adequately without the help of others and intentionally trying to evoke a caregiving response from others.