Self Sabotage: How - Drama Addicts

Creating a lot of drama in our lives allows us to be distracted from working toward concrete goals. It has the additional benefit of distracting us from the very fact that we aren’t meeting our goals or getting where we want to be. How do we create drama? We become overly impatient with people or take out frustrations on innocent bystanders. We cause unnecessary conflicts. We catastrophize minor annoyances or problems until we believe they are life altering experiences. We collect other drama addictsas friends so if we are running short of our own dramas we can always become involved in one of theirs. There are as many ways of creating drama as there are people sabotaging themselves with it. Dealing with all of these “crises” uses all our time and energy and prevents us from pursuing the really important things. It also provides a nice excuse. We simply couldn’t get to that job interview because we had a “crisis” to deal with.