What comes through the mind when a sense of something other than normalcy passes? What is bound to happen when the mind suffers from insanity? What crosses over a thought when one seeks happiness over grief? What gloom keeps a human normal? Perhaps, the response to all of these lies in a thousand shades of secrecy we hide and protect from unleashing.
The human mind, as complicated as it is, pushes people to the edge of doing things, things like being an attention seeker. The sole word that holds countless meanings and traits that dwell within the victim.
However, being an attention seeker is a psychological disorder where the person constantly derives to the core of wanting the finest attention from the person/people he/she wants it from. The art of an attention seeker is boundless to time, distance and place. It is demanded as a reward after the desired consequences of wanting to achieve it.
Based on several personal experiences, I have encountered people victim to this deadly mindset that on a progressive basis keeps pushing them towards an inferiority complex which awakens their need for attention.
This may seem like a sane way to desire for company, but the history of every attention seeking individual; be it a parent, spouse or child tells the opposite. This trait is more than just hereditary, it comes easily from grudges, hatred, jealousy, an insanity of wanting to be prioritised, and in continuous hope for care, as it comes extra love, enough attention and highly praises from day to day life.
The past of the victim might as well include unwanted circumstances, abusive families, failed relations, a longing for perfection or might not include these at all. But when this shadow lurks in a nerve, it spreads it phantom-like wings and rejects to listen logics.
Thus, the result to the consequences of which develops an abnormality within a body. Under the falsity of attention seeking, an individual begins to want attention no matter what it takes.
As dangerous as it seems, the attention seeker exceeds the worsen attempts to gain what he/she needs which may include even hurting one’s own self or the other person from whom the attention is desired to be needed. Though, the victim may cross limits in some cases and in the other may as well do nothing, but worsen his/her sane senses. The senses loosen their grip for as long as the owner keeps thinking harder and pressurises the brain to imagine uncertain situations if not the considered case be attained.
This calamity of attention seeking barely has a cure unless one strives himself to completely banish having such thoughts. For every effect it has on an individual oftentimes carry on to generations, and such traits are harsh over youth. I believe, these cures being in their least forms may be some help to the person, but fact be noted that attention given to an attention seeker is a short term numbness to the disease and not the long term cure achieved.
Merely, the concept of this lies in the strength of oneness and the dissection of this phantom is in the hands of the beholder. But again! Don’t we all solemnly know an attention seeker?
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