Reading random LiveJournals makes me wonder...

[yesthattom]

Do people that live psychodrama to psychodrama realize that they do?

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[bitty.livejournal.com]

yes we do

[awfief.livejournal.com]

ah, young Jedi, there is much to learn.

Do people actually live psychodrama to psychodrama, or is that just what they write down every day?

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

how do you know you don't?

[clauclauclaudia]

I can't speak for anyone but me, but it is quite possible to not, and to know that one doesn't.

[cappyhead.livejournal.com]

I know him pretty well, and I know he doesn't.

Neither do I.

[awfief.livejournal.com]

uh, yesthattom has PLENTY of psychodrama. He deals with it well, and tries not to gossip too much. But he DEFINITELY has psychodrama.

I'm just amazed that it took reading random people's journals to wonder about people living psychodrama to psychodrama. I mean, I see it in my social circles a lot.

Plenty?

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

I disagree. Outside of the divorce (which is _long_ over) I haven't had any psychodrama in my life for quite some time. I've actively removed psychodrama-attractors from my life. However, there are some new people in my life that have varying amounts of psychodrama in their lives, and I'm trying to decide what limits I'm going to set with these people.

Re: Plenty?

[awfief.livejournal.com]

I was specifically thinking about the divorce, actually. Sometimes it creeps in. And like I said, you have your share of psychodrama, you just deal with it well, so it becomes *internal* psychodrama instead of external psychodrama.

If that makes any sense.

[cappyhead.livejournal.com]

Well, what I meant was that he doesn't -live- from psychodrama to psychodrama. He doesn't live -for- psychodrama. He, like most people, has had psychodrama in his life, as have I. But I think he values and appreciates the times in his life when psychodrama is absent, and I don't think he goes out of his way to -create- psychodrama. Nor do I think he gets bored when psychodrama is absent.

[awfief.livejournal.com]

ah, mea culpa.

Somehow, I thought you were saying yesthattom has NO psychodrama at all. I probably read it too quickly (argh).

I was just clarifying that he, like most people, has psychodrama. He's just good at handling it so he's not a drama queen about it. :)

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Some do, some don't. Knowing that one has been living psychodrama-to-psychodrama is an essential but not sufficient condition for breaking the cycle.

A.
working on it herself.

[mangosteen]

Two words: comfort zone.

[geminigirl]

Are they living their own psychodramas or someone elses? (I'm thinking of myself back in college...and I'm hoping I've gotten past that now.)

[punkbadgrrrl.livejournal.com]

Random journal reading is fun. Thats how i found your journal! And yes, i know my life is a psychodrama. And i love every second of it. oK not really. but anyways. pancakes rock.

Plenty?

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

Hi! Thanks for reading my journal! I hope you enjoy it!

[johnd.livejournal.com]

and after you've lived enough chapters of them, it becomes the most important indicator of when meeting someone, if you're first reaction is 'oh god another drama queen', suddenly their good qualities disappear and all you see is a huge 'audience wanted' sign posted on their face

[kingfox.livejournal.com]

As someone who mrfantasy 'lives vacariously through', no, not always. Sometimes it takes a voice of reason to give us a nice firm slap in the face for us to notice the emotional minefield we tend to plop ourselves in the middle of. Sometimes it takes someone to point our lives out to us from the outside looking in for us to realize how much of a melodramatic mess we wrap ourselves in.

Or maybe I'm just exceptionally naive and foolish in such matters. At least I've been good for a while now.