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Hiya;
I know we have all seen this before, or possibley have done it ourselves at some point....I created fictional characters to try and explain this...
Is the friend in this story histrionic?
Tom: I went to the grocery store and knocked down one of the display shelves, it was so embarressing!
Wife: Wow, how did you manage that?
Tom: well, I went to reach for a-
(friend interupts)
Friend: Man, you have no idea! That's nothing. One time I knocked down all the bookshelves in the library! I even knew it was gonna happen, had a vision about it and everything!
Wife: that seems a little unrealistic?
Friend: Ya, you would have actually had to be there, I had to punch out a hole in the wall so this women could get out in time. I knew she was there because I could smell her panic; did you know that I could smell fear? One time I was at a movie theatre.....
And that's my example lol. What drives a person to make up such so far out there crazy stories? And, the interuption totally was a giant "I don't care about what happened to you, my story was so much better" statement.
This example was a fairly non-harmful one, but this type of behavior can be so harmful when someone else is going through something rough, and someone else says "that aint nothin" and then goes on a tangent, completely leaving the original person feeling fairly abandoned and/or angry. I've heard this phenomenon refered to as "god's beard syndrome" lol, or "one-uping".
How does one handle this type of behavior?
Thanks,
-obj
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