It sounds to me like you are not working on your issues to resolve them but just skating across the surface, looking for someone else to attend to you when things are tough/you're lonely, etc. What do you want? There's nothing wrong with who we are, how we behave but being dependent on others to move forward in our own lives. . . there's a flaw in that plan? I know I did not have "words" to ask for help so use to call suicide/help lines because that got across my "need" for help to another who might/might not help. The comment your "professional friend" made about you accidentally attempting suicide reminded me of that. Attention seeking is not "bad" but if we do not take responsibility for it and do something with the attention we receive, other than to bask in it and move on to the next "fix", it can get harder to find people willing to do that our way, especially people already in our lives.

I would explore what "attention seeking" means to you and what purpose it has in your life and what you would like to do with/about it, with a therapist/T/PDoc.