{"id":2074,"date":"2016-10-02T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/?p=2074"},"modified":"2018-03-26T00:52:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T07:52:59","slug":"dealing-with-a-drama-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/dealing-with-a-drama-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing With a Drama Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Judith Orloff\u00a0<\/strong>of AwakeningPeople.com writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The rollercoaster antics of a drama queen can put you on overload, and wipe you out.\u00a0They\u2019re the Sarah Bernhardt of energy vampires. They have a breathy flair for exaggerating small incidents and make them off-the-charts dramas. Life is always extreme, either unbearably good or bad. They spend life flitting from crisis to crisis, energized by chaos and histrionices.<\/div>\n
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We dare not ask how they\u2019re feeling–they might tell us. As a psychiatrist I\u2019ve observed that a drama queen\u2019s parents often equated concocted \u201cdisaster\u201d with intimacy.<\/p>\n

Years ago, I was amused to see that a magazine had a \u201cDrama Queen for a Day Contest.\u201d They described their winning contestant as, \u201cShe came. She puked. She conquered.\u201d A stark truism about how this vampire operates on a subtle energetic level. The way they drain is to exhaust our life force with intense emotion; then they go in for the kill.<\/p>\n

My patient Greg felt this after working with Joan, a new employee. The two consulted together on computer projects but because Joan always had a drama brewing in her life, she\u2019d consistently leave Greg hanging. One week, Joan suffered food poisoning, \u201calmost died.\u201d Another week her luggage didn\u2019t arrive on her flight–the World War III she waged with customer service made her late for work. Then her vintage pink Mustang, \u201cher baby,\u201d was towed yet again! By the time Joan left his office, Greg felt tired and used.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If you suspect someone may be a drama queen, take this quiz. Answering \u201cyes\u201d to at least two questions is suggestive. Three or more \u201cyeses\u201d indicate a sure thing.<\/div>\n
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Drama Queen Quiz (from\u00a0Positive Energy<\/a>)
\n<\/strong>Does the person frequently start sentences with, \u201cOh my God, you\u2019ll never guess what happened?\u201d\u00a0When a brown spot appears on this person\u2019s skin, are they sure they are dying of a fatal disease?\u00a0Is this person always making up or breaking up with their boyfriend or girlfriend?\u00a0When her husband forgets to email one night while traveling, does she accuse him of having an affair?\u00a0After a few phone hang-ups, does this person call the police, hysterical that thieves are casing their house?\u00a0If their boss doesn\u2019t instantly compliment their work, do they frantically tell everyone in earshot they\u2019re about to be fired?
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Read more HERE<\/a><\/div>\n
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About the Author<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Judith Orloff, MD\u00a0is author of the New York Times bestseller, Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life, upon which this article is based. In the book she educates readers about empaths, highly sensitive people, and offers strategies for anyone who wants to avoid narcissists and transform difficult emotions to positive ones.\u00a0\u00a0Dr. Orloff is a psychiatrist and an empath who combines the pearls of traditional medicine with cutting edge knowledge of intuition, energy, and spirituality. Dr. Orloff also specializes in treating empaths (highly sensitive people). Connect with Judith on\u00a0Facebook\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0Twitter<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Judith Orloff\u00a0of AwakeningPeople.com writes: The rollercoaster antics of a drama queen can put you on overload, and wipe you out.\u00a0They\u2019re the Sarah Bernhardt of energy vampires. They have a breathy flair for exaggerating small incidents and make them off-the-charts dramas. Life is always extreme, either unbearably good or bad. They spend life flitting from crisis…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[328,127],"class_list":["post-2074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-loveandrelationships","tag-personalities","tag-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5180,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions\/5180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}