I tend to be high energy, which can certainly lend itself to high drama, but I’ve found over the years that I really, really prefer my high energy to be spend on fun stuff - babbling over the latest awesome issue of National Geographic, playing with puppies, helping friends get stuff set up. I can get caught up in drama, but I’ve learned to disengage and back off if it doesn’t immediately calm down into something more constructive.
I think it’s something that comes with both disposition and age. My disposition does not lend me to quiet contemplation, but I only have so much energy, and burning out quickly is not fun.
I will say that the people I know who seek out drama and generate their own if they don’t have enough strike me as being like codependent people trapped in that cycle. Drama is their normal. They don’t understand what it’s like to live a non-dramatic life. Anything out of ordinary is stressful because they don’t understand how to live inside of it, so they revert to whatever behavior brings them back to what they know. Some people can break out of it. Others remain miserable. A few revel in it. >shudder<
I hate drama - yeah I’m one of the ones who says she hates it but is stuck in it right now.
It is always swirling around me.
I try to stay out of it but some people thrive on it and aren’t happy until they suck everyone else into it. Lots of times I was the ‘outcast’ at work because I refused to pick a side and join in. Once I got written up at work for not reacting strongly enough to a crisis, while they were all in panic mode I was trying to find and fix the problem.
My sister was always the drama queen and I was always the fixer.
She’s not happy unless she is stirring things up.
I’ve always managed to avoid it outside the family.
I should know better within the family.
I’m really sick with myself for allowing myself to get sucked in.
When I take a giant step backwards I can see all the games and manipulation going on, my sister likes the drama, her husband is an instigator, and my mother likes playing the martyr and she loves having people fight over her.
My SO used to have a lot of drama in his life, I taught him how to get rid of it.
Now I have him lecturing me.
I think people who enjoy drama do it because it’s easier to create and play with false problems instead of dealing with the real issues.
The OP should have been around in the early days. Damn, did the Dope have some Drama Queens. We still get them from time to time, but they tend to slink away after being called out on their shit. The ones in the early days had persistence! They’d hang around posting “Woe is me” posts for years before getting banned.
The one with the crappy job with the Middle Eastern boss and a Disney fetish that went by a couple of different names?