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Is this girl"piling on agony"? ( I mean she is trying to draw attentions, while her situation is not that bad and scary, she is shedding fake tears , and reacting so exaggeratedly )
What is the exact idiom or expression for describing such false (?) exaggerated reactions just for gaining others' attentions or sympathy? "pile on agony " or "to throw pity party" or " to be drama queen" or what?
Some ways to put it:
With (quite a bit of) sarcasm:
Watching her get a flu shot makes me think she's a pitiable embodiment of histrionics.
Watching her get a flu shot makes me think she's a deplorable manifestation of human melodramatics.
Other (nicer) ways to put it:
She's being very melodramatic
Below is my preferred sentence:
She was perpetually overwrought during the course of receiving her flu shot.
