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Sometimes I feel like I want to break a leg, or lose an eye, or get a boo boo, so my friends and family give me extra attention. And before you ask, no I never have any intentions of doing so, just me thinking about hot nice it would be to get a lot of extra attention.
It's kind of pathetic really-you should try to figure out why you want this attention and find a better way to get it.
I once had so severe a nosebleed that I had blood all over my face and I lay on my bed waiting for my mother to get home and I told her I'd fallen down the stairs. She appeared to believe me and made a fuss! Years later she told me how obvious it was that I was making it up and that she'd done the same thing when she was young (and had also been spotted for lying).
You've got the chance to be a better person than me and my mum, and also to get more respect for being a better person who doesn't do stuff like this. Take your chance! Don't do something that makes you look like an attention-seeker.
It's perfectly normal. Maybe, though, to receive that longed-for attention, discover a talent and show your friends/family (Without showing off).
usually, as in my case, when someone is desperate for attention, it is a result from a neglectful mother when you were a child. you may have not gotten enough love & attention then, so it does damage later on, and you will do unhealthy things for attention.
Definitely doesn't make you a psychopath, or a retard. It's actually a fairly common psychological disorder. There are plenty of people that 'attempt suicide', cut themselves, and other methods of self harm for attention.
As long as you don't act on it, I don't think you have any kind of problem you need to worry about.
I heard about this in my psychology calss year ago! This is actually a common psychological thing. Thought you might be interedted toknow that.. Glad your not going to indulge in it. These things never end well
no. a girl in my high school "tried to commit suicide" just to get attention, by jumping off of her roof, in which she landed on her feet and broke her leg. she was then the laughing stock of the school, and couldn't even tell people anymore how she broke her leg.
No it means you are a psychopath. Only a psychopath would willingly get injured for attention. I am not sure what the exact diagnoses would be though.