Need To Seek Attention?

Need To Seek Attention?

Need To Seek Attention?  Yes I agree, from time to time, we seek ATTENTION, for various reasons.  People may NOT think of their own ATTENTION as a scarce economic good BUT they certainly act as though it is.  They DON'T want their time or their ATTENTION wasted at all.  And the 'mother of all misses' is that as much as we need ATTENTION from time to time, some of us are guilty of NOT giving the ATTENTION others deserve when they talk to is.  Kinda TIT for TAT❓❓❓

The desire to get ATTENTION from people in your life is natural.  We're hard-wired to prioritize connection for survival, and social support has been linked to many health benefits and even longevity.  However, studies show that there are both healthy and unhealthy ways to receive ATTENTION from others📗📙📘

Unhealthy attention-seeking behaviors can damage relationships by exhausting the recipients of the behaviors and make the connection and making the connection feel inauthentic.  They may be signs as well of a personality disorder that could benefit from treatment.  Before we deep-dive, let's find out common reasons why we do seek ATTENTION💎💎💎

Sometime, we're FISHING for compliments.  Receiving a compliment activates that part of our brain the way receiving money does.  We can then all enjoy that HIT of HAPPINESS when someone offers us a genuine compliment and it is NOT necessarily problematic to drop hints from time to time in the hopes that someone will offer us one✅✅✅

Sometimes we're SEEKING SYMPATHY.  All the ATTENTION received for SYMPATHY-SEEKING can, in some cases, take the form of pity rather than the positive ATTENTION gained from praise for one's good qualities.  Bottomline is that while ATTENTION does NOT translate to reciprocity, it behooves that we should DO UNTO OTHERS WHAT OTHERS WILL DO UNTO US❗❗❗