[lunaticfringe]

In life I seem to constantly be dealing with an array of dramatic, intense, and difficult situations. I believe this is largely my own doing and stemming from symptoms of my bipolar. It has been one thing after another for years now, but it's not something I have control over.

Anyone else struggle with this?

[CopperStar]

I used to. The people around me didn't feel as intensely as I did, to put it lightly, and it made me feel lonely and like an alien. I wanted other people to feel what I felt and to be able to share that with others, to have mutual understanding and be on the same wavelength. So I would subconsciously try to 'rouse' people in a way, try to invoke their passion or some emotional intensity that I could identify. For me it was usually over the topic of politics, government, conspiracy theories, etc, or what I perceived to be really deep, philosophical things. Eventually it just made me even lonelier, though, since it never really panned out the way I hoped. I would still be the awkward, melodramatic one at the end of the day, set apart and "crazy". So eventually I stopped because it made me feel worse.

[cashart10]

Possible trigger:

When I was younger (teenager), I lied, I cried, I created every kind of drama you can imagine. I even once caught my hair on fire. While that was out of desperation from my illness, I can guarantee I would not have allowed myself to die by being burned to death. I had every intention of putting out the fire.

Then I got better around 18. Aside from sleeping with both men and women way too much, I had a stable, normal life and I ran from drama. I wanted nothing to do with drama and I wanted nothing to do with Bipolar Disorder. I believed I never had it and it was all created in my head or the I had been healed by the Lord from it. Now that my Bipolar came back with a vengence, I am dramatic with emotions while in an episode but I loathe it, especially when I am well and level headed.

[Nammu]

Therapy is quite good at teach us how to handle the drama, you just need to find the right T.

I dont have much drama. Ive always been described as fuss free. The biggest drama I have is if I take certain medications or if I go to hospital. In saying that, I have a lot of distress, but that stems from experiences.

I hate constant drama in peoples lives. I've had to block a few of my BPD friends as they just stressed me out with the constant dramatics!

Perhaps its my culture, but constant drama seems only to be in the lives of those who welcome it.

(Episodes of mental illness are a different kettle of fish)

[Cocosurviving]

I use to be a walking drama queen when something didn't "GO MY WAY". I would be hell on wheels and everyone around would hear abt it. Whoever "I FELT" caused me the problem I would do my best to make life miserable for them. This started when I moved to a new state. I also started seeing a new therapist right a few months after being in the state. I would go to sessions and let lose. I would vent through the whole session. I felt like my case manager let me down so I threatened him. I was called into a "special meeting" and asked not to threaten him. I was also asked to keep away from him. Because I was such I drama queen at the end of the meeting I told them I could still dream of him dying...then I walked out. My therapist continued to work with me. I called my home state and got a list of my old meds. I suggested dosage amounts to my pdoc. We talked abt why and she agree with most. Others she gave recommendations on. I do not in anyway give all credit to my therapist. She's a very nice person who tried to give me tools but her tools were not for me. She was just good to have someone around to listen to me vent, say take a deep breathe and she did ask what could i have done differently. All her tools involved getting out the house and doing something. Go give back to your community, go plant flowers, go workout, knit, sew, paint, take up a new hobby. I use to do things like that when I lived in my home state but now I'm mixed. Either I'm depressed and crying or i'm manic and out of control.

[WibblyWobbly]

I feel the same way when my PTSD is bad or I'm in a mixed state. My emotions are so heightened that difficult situations become extremely distressing and I perceive it as a pattern of one bad thing after another after another that is never going to end. My raging makes things a lot worse.

[festidump]

I think sometimes the drama isn't real but in my head. Mountains out of mole hills. I would love to have someone validate my emotions tho, if something makes me angry I should be able to feel that emotion then let it go, I just hate being told that I can't / shouldn't feel a negative emotion when it happens. I then dwell and it gets bigger and worse and I end up crying for hours and thinking dark thoughts.

We all feel positives negative emotions and should be allowed to explore them. Understanding them, for me anyway, can take the drama out of a situation.