What is a Drama Queen?
Conflicts and disappointments are natural side effects of the human experience, but for a certain personality type known as a “drama queen,” life’s little setbacks can trigger explosive emotional outbursts and other irrational behaviors. The term “drama queen,” or less frequently, “drama king” is usually applied to someone with a demanding or overbearing personality who tends to overreact to seemingly minor incidents. A drama queen often views the world in absolutes, and only has two settings on her emotional control button; zero and ten. Psychologists might describe a drama queen or king as a neurotic personality with histrionic tendencies, meaning they tend to become needlessly dramatic whenever order is disrupted. In literature, the character Scarlett O’Hara from Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind would be considered a drama queen by today’s standards. A drama queen is notoriously self-centered and self-absorbed, often viewing friends and relatives as lesser beings assigned to t
you have the doyen of drama queens in the fat one in buckingham palace,she obviously stormed out of that television programme but would rather see some innocent person lose their jobs,all she had to do was tell the truth,she is a liar as most royals are,pricess anne is another one,not one of has the guts to tell the truth,why should they,they are encouraged to use their position to get whatever they desire
The expression ‘drama queen’ is applicable to any gay man who makes a drama out of any situation. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/drama_quee… The expression ‘drama queen’ is entirely gay in origin and if it’s being applied to a non-gay situation, then it’s a misuse of the words and has no meaning. Larry Grayson – drama queen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO0E85keq…
Personally, I hate labels and “drama queen” tends to carry a negative connotation that describes someone who is over-emotional, irrational, and over-the-top with his reactions and interpretations of events. I prefer to define a “drama queen” as someone who is very passionate about how he feels and communicates this exuberance in a magnified way that can be out-of-proportion to the situation at-hand. How’s that for a politically correct definition?! Other personality characteristics might include extreme sensitivity, jumping to negative conclusions, thinking the worst about everything, moody, prone to overreacting, taking things out of context, impulsive, flamboyant, and the list goes on and on. These are, of course, stereotypical qualities; however, the defining feature would be the exaggerated sense of being reactive. Drama queen-types share common distorted thinking styles that lend them to react to situations the way they do, namely catastrophizing (blowing things out of proportion,
