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With empathy humor and unique insight a psychologist examines drama addiction and charts a path for healing in this groundbreaking book

Do you know someone who seems to thrive on chaos a person who manufactures crisis where there is none makes mountains out of molehills and whose very presence feels like an inescapable whirlwind
You may even label them a drama queen
This person might be someone close to you
This person might even be you

In this groundbreaking book clinical psychologist and mindbody expert Dr Scott Lyons turns the notion of the drama queen on its head showing that drama is actually an addiction and those who are suffering with it are experiencing a much deeper psychological biological and social pain For a person addicted to drama the intensity becomes their way of coping Their life is a constant cycle of crisis chaos and chronically high levels of stress They may never be able to relax without an internal alarm going off sending them spiraling back toward chaos Drama is the stirring the excitement the exaggeration the eruption the unrest and the medicine to feel alive in relation to the numbing of the internal and external world around them For a person addicted to drama the drama is often how they surviveor think they do

With studies primary research and patient stories Dr Lyons deconstructs this littleunderstood addiction sharing