If you're overdramatic are you aware you are?

[MrsKingfisher]

It can't just be me that's fed up of overly dramatic people?

Every little thing that happens has to be overdramatised, it's so boring to listen to. They can't just tell a story it has to be in great detail, embellished and picked over for a very long time.

Do drama queens know they're like this? Perhaps they do and it feeds them in some way.

'Oh I saw Malcom the other day, I literally died when he saw me in my slippers outside my front door, he gave me a look as if to say 'why are you wearing slippers outside' I was like Jesus Malcom has just caught me in my slippers' 🥱

Yes I do know, but I have very severe ADHD and it’s just part of who I am. Thankfully my friends and family love me regardless of how dramatic I am, and it’s fine! And I can laugh about it.

DH is very dramatic and has no idea which drives me mad. He also doesn't think of the consequences. Toddler DD coughed once yesterday having tried to choke on sharp crisp and he declared "oh she's had a hacking cough all afternoon". Errr no she hasn't and if you honestly thought that surely you would be booking and trying to do a covid test on a 2 year old whilst cancelling work for the week to self isolate OR she just choked a bit on a crisp and I hadn't heard her cough before or after. MIL is the same though. Every car journey she 'nearly died' due to 'some idiot on the road'. I told her that if it was that bad then a)FIL shouldn't be driving because it can't be everyone else's fault every time b) she would surely have stopped getting in cars if she felt her life was in danger every time? Nope, just wanting attention then! I find they are very passive people in general who will point out something wrong but make no effort to change it. I guess you would have to be to think like that

NO!!!!!!! How DARE you??!!!!

@TeddyIsaHe snap me too - I have adhd and am very dramatic! Make a mountain out of a molehill but thank god my lovely friends find me funny

Is it even possible to answer that one is overdramatic but is not aware they are? :D

@Searchesforhipbones

NO!!!!!!! How DARE you??!!!!

Hmmm your over dramatic might be just enough detail to make the story interesting for me.....

Just leaving this here

Me, sorry.

Not

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

Just leaving this here

That's brilliant! I think also it's not just the being overdramatic it's the waffling on about it, repeating the same story in various ways.

It's hard to answer this because IN THE MOMENT if I'm reacting to something, I feel like my behaviour is appropriate to what's happening but then later, when I've calmed down, I often find myself thinking, "Oh goodness, you went a bit OTT there..." and that I didn't need to do so.

I have huge anxiety issues but I'm not sure if they manifest in the initial over reaction to events or whether I wasnt actually that bad but feel like I was!!

If that makes any sense...

I'm very dramatic! Don't know why, it's just who I am 🤷🏽‍♀️

I travel on London transport all day every day, I find anyone under the age of 20 like this, the girls being the worst!! And it is a non story but they manage to spin it out with a lot of the word “ basically “ thrown in

Oh I love it when people tell a story and give quirky details. Brightens my day.

I don’t like drama lamas who are negative and on the rampage constantly. However I’m very compassionate when good friends have a bad day or week or few months

My exH is never having a bad day, he’s always “completely miserable”, nothing ever costs £200, it’s always “hundreds and hundreds of pounds”, everything is a massive struggle, things always go completely and utterly wrong and it’s never his fault but people being “totally incompetent” - it’s very very tiring. And means you never know when to take things seriously because he reacts the same way to everything.

@Isesgirl that’s really interesting- I’m also highly anxious so maybe that’s also part of why I am overdramatise!

@Isesgirl that’s really interesting- I’m also highly anxious so maybe that’s also part of why I am overdramatise!

Love that clip of Pam!