Is there a word for someone who loves tragedy?

[Anonymous]

Drama queen.

[Anonymous]

My best friend is like this. She can be a lot of fun but she will talk about the negative far more than the positive things that are happening. It seems like she thrives on tragedy, if that makes sense.

Then again, in times where I or others have been going through some rough times, she is the first one to throw a fundraiser, contribute to a GoFundMe, send a card, take me to lunch and just listen.

[Anonymous]

My mother?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schadenfreude

This is it, scrolled through to make she someone posted it.

No. This means taking delight in other people's tragedies. The OP seems to be talking about people who just obsess over and even grieve others' tragedies. Not the same.

[Anonymous]

My pet peeve people who try to make themselves the center of tragedy when they were at best adjacent to it. Just leaning in.

I remember what it was like to be on the upper east side on 9-11 and they have to lay in bed for 2 days every year on the anniversary.

My cousin Bob lives 40 miles outside the LA fires and I'm so worried about him I need to go home for the day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My best friend is like this. She can be a lot of fun but she will talk about the negative far more than the positive things that are happening. It seems like she thrives on tragedy, if that makes sense.

Then again, in times where I or others have been going through some rough times, she is the first one to throw a fundraiser, contribute to a GoFundMe, send a card, take me to lunch and just listen.

In this case, she sounds like an extra sensitive person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A tool to work through an unresolved trauma, experience grief and sadness at a remove.

Interesting. This person seem to get very depressed over things that have little to nothing to do with them

Depression has become a comfortable state for them so they unconsciously look for things to reinforce and justify that state. It's also an anxiety thing, I believe.

Agree with this, high correlation to depression and anxiety.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Debbie Downer

Hysterical!

[Anonymous]

A happy person.

[Anonymous]

I was thinking macabre, but that is more specific to death/injury, not just general negativity.

[Anonymous]

Shakespeare's plays are categorized as tragedies, comedies, and histories.

Tragedies are a form of entertainment in some ways. The tragedy is meant to teach us something.

For example, sometimes I will binge watch tragedies about women as victims of violent gruesome crimes to stay out of my comfort zone and remind myself to be more aware of my surroundings.

Some people walk around with their heads in the clouds, not paying one but of attention to the tragedy of life.

In Shakespearean tragedies characters who commit murder face a brutal end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schadenfreude

No. This is when you're secretly happy that something bad has happened to someone else

[Anonymous]

Ambulance chasers.

[Anonymous]

Attention seeker.

[Anonymous]

Addiction to suffering.