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Episode: 114

6 Signs You’re Addicted to Stress: Psychologist Teaches You How to Remove Drama From Your Life

with Dr. Scott Lyons, PhD

Are you addicted to stress?

Dr. Scott Lyons, a medical doctor, holistic psychologist, and renowned body-based trauma expert says there are 6 telltale signs that you’re addicted to stress.

Dr. Lyons explains why we keep ourselves on edge, why we find ourselves picking fights, gossiping, zombie scrolling, and staying in relationships where drama is present.

This is a cycle you need to break.

Understand the science, research, and psychology of stress and get the tools you need to remove stress from your life.

 

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When you recognize you have choice, an agency, when you have power again to say no or walk away, then you can actually be in relationship with someone who's addicted to drama.

Dr. Scott Lyons, PhD

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Dr. Scott Lyons, PhD

Dr. Scott Lyons is a psychologist, author, and educator specializing in the mind-body connection and the treatment of stress and trauma.

  • Book: Addicted to Drama

    In this groundbreaking book, clinical psychologist and mind-body expert Dr. Scott Lyons turns the notion of the “drama queen” on its head, showing that drama is actually an addiction and those who are suffering with it are experiencing a much deeper psychological, biological, and social pain. For a person addicted to drama, the intensity becomes their way of coping.  Their life is a constant cycle of crisis, chaos, and chronically high levels of stress. They may never be able to relax without an internal alarm going off, sending them spiraling back toward chaos. Drama is the stirring, the excitement, the exaggeration, the eruption, the unrest, and the medicine to feel alive in relation to the numbing of the internal and external world around them. For a person addicted to drama, the drama is often how they survive—or think they do.

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