“Mr. Beaver, I manage an insurance brokerage in the Pacific Northwest. We have 15 employees, and “Frank” was a recent hire. While excellent at his job, he is creating a never-ending sense of things being wrong and upsetting everyone over minor issues and, in addition, he is a gossip mill!
“The term drama king comes to mind as I do not know any other way to describe his behavior, taking small, non-issues and making them sound like the end of the world.”
“He seems to love chaos. I do not know what to do or how to deal with him. Do you know of any credible resource that might help me understand and address these issues? Thanks. Albert.”
“Your reader is describing the characteristics of a drama addict,” observes clinical psychologist, Dr. Scott Lyons, author of “Addicted to Drama – Healing Dependency on Crisis & Chaos in Yourself and Others.”
I had the most interesting chat with Dr. Lyons, and he provided useful insight into this real psychological problem that impacts the drama addict and all those affected by the chaos they manufacture.
“When we say, ‘Wait, what just happened?’ with someone who makes mountains out of molehills and reacts in ways that instantly escalate — becoming big all of a sudden — leaving us wondering, ‘Whoa! What? Where did that come from?’ or ‘What just happened?’ this is usually a good indication there is some inclination toward an addiction to drama,” he points out.
He described the common traits drama...
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