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****ing sick of people calling me an attention seeker people who are meant to be helping me my husband i feel like they dont give a **** about me makes me want to die. i have had enough i should just piss off **** them all

[AzulOscuro]

Who are they?
Consider that people who don’t know anything about mental disorders barely are gonna understand a person like you or me. They will see seeking attention when there’s indeed a need to be understand or be heard.

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this from people who are meant to be friends some of them professionals

[AzulOscuro]

Professional or expertise on what? Some people are experts on their field but they don’t know what a depression means or what it implies.
Take this into account. Be better than them and show that your mind is more open than theirs.

[MDDBPDPTSD]

I agree that being labeled attention seeking is frustrating. That used to happen to me too. I kept trying to make things better by reaching out and sharing my experiences and pain. And many didn’t understand. They assumed that because they had never experienced pain to that degree, that it wasn’t possible that I really was. So I must just be attention seeking. What they didn’t understand was that I actually cringe when I am the center of attention and I am very uncomfortable. I don’t want to be the center of attention and I am in fact a huge introvert but my intense unrelenting pain pushed me to get help somehow.
But most, even medical professionals and certainly family, don’t understand. They just don’t get it. And it took me a very long time to come to this insight but, I prefer that my loved ones don’t ever understand IF that means they have to feel this level of pain to understand. Medical folks, I have higher standards for them and I continue to be disappointed when I encounter ones who don’t understand.
I am so sorry that you were mislabeled and misjudged. That is really adding salt to the wound. It tends to compound our suffering. What’s worse is when those who think we are attention seeking see that the accusation has caused us more pain, they incorrectly assume that means they were correct in their assessment of us and that we are acting more hurt because we have been “found out “ and are embarrassed by our behavior. 😩🙄
They have no clue really. In short, people suck.

Hugs. 🤗

I was called an "attention [profane]" because I joined a medium gaming forum, by its members. All I did was not tell my actual identity (telling your identity can be dangerous) and they bullied a 13 year old who wanted to socialize over the internet because he couldn't offline. It gave me PTSD and now I never mention my location. I was mad then and am now. But I would have been to a lesser degree if it weren't for the psychological trauma.

They called me names, sent me GIFs, mocked me, created threads over me, banned me after hacking me. Why? Because I was a mentally ill child.


But you or I don't have to hang on that. Simply ignore them and move on. There are more important tasks at your hand.

[Fuzzybear]

I’ve never been called attention seeking by the medical community (as their appalling treatment of me has led me to avoid them, amongst other things) but yes, some people are far too quick to slap derogatory labels on someone, these people have an inability to understand the level of pain... as another poster said. Avoid them if you can, they aren’t worth your time.. as for the medical community, it saddens me if they label someone as anything (its often wrong anyway, in my experience) and use it as an excuse to “justify” their lack of care

[Unrigged64072835]

A lot of people consider BPD people "attention-seeking". They're told a lot of things that put a simple answer on a complex problem.

Possible trigger:

I was told by a crisis worker in the ER that because of my numerous suicide attempts that I wasn't doing it right and I should try another method. She then sent me out with a discharge paper stating "BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER" in large bold letters.

A psychiatrist that I met at two mental hospitals would shut me down before I said anything and told me I was having a "temper tantrum." He would then give me Zoloft which made me sweat all the time and gave me migraines. I refuse to see him now.

I'm fortunate that most of the mental health professionals I meet are helpful, but I'm still wary of everyone else.