Podcast 479: Are you addicted to drama?
CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf
Dr. Caroline Leaf
4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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SHOW DESCRIPTION: n this podcast I talk to holistic psychologist, educator and best-selling author Scott Lyons about what it means to be addicted to drama, how a drama addiction affects our mental health and relationships, how to manage a drama addiction, and so much more!
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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:
2:00 Scott’s amazing story & work
6:40 Scott’s new book Addicted to Drama
7:20, 11:45 What being addicted to drama looks like
13:32 Drama addiction & trauma
17:42 Isolation & drama addiction
21:55 How to tell if someone is addicted to drama
31:20 How to protect yourself from someone who is addicted to drama
37:00, 44:50 How to identify & manage your addiction to drama
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Dr Caroline Leif and welcome to my podcast Cleaning Up the Mental Messe. |
| 0:10.2 | Whether we're watching it play out on our screens and social media feeds or experiencing |
| 0:14.8 | it in our relationships and workplaces, many of us find ourselves exhausted by the seemingly |
| 0:20.6 | never ending turn to drama in our lives. |
| 0:23.7 | While some of us long to escape the drama, others dive in ahead first and both groups desperately |
| 0:29.6 | need a solution. |
| 0:31.5 | What is addiction to drama? |
| 0:33.4 | What are the common symptoms and impacts of drama addiction? |
| 0:36.8 | How does a drama addiction affect friends, family members, loved ones and colleagues? |
| 0:41.7 | While joining the studio today to answer these questions is Scott Lyon's clinical psychologist. |
| 0:47.1 | We dive into his new book, Addicted to Drama, where Scott reveals how he can break free from |
| 0:52.2 | the isolating and damaging effects of living lives consumed by chaos. |
| 0:56.9 | Whether we are the oft maligned drama queen who thrives on crisis, relishing their own problems |
| 1:01.5 | and problems of others or in a relationship with one. |
| 1:05.0 | So let's dive in. |
| 1:09.6 | Dr Scott Lyons, what a pleasure it is to talk to you and meet you and talk to you about |
| 1:14.3 | your book. |
| 1:15.3 | I just, everyone loves this title. |
| 1:16.3 | I know. |
| 1:17.3 | Addicted to drama and everyone immediately wants to know, okay, tell me more because as you |
| 1:21.3 | say when you ask a lecture and an audience and you say, do you know anyone who's addicted |
| 1:25.5 | to drama, people put up both hands and then you say, you addicted to drama and they don't |
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