2007-02-26 09:27:16 · 8 answers · asked by SOCCORRO 1 in Health ➔ Other - Health
...I believe some people will do just about anything in the realm of ideas involving trying to attract attention to themselves. I also believe there are some underlying mental issues seemingly hard at work here as well. Anxiety and depression come in many forms and of negative behaviors and irrational thinking. Obsessive compulsive people fall into these categories as well. I say unless you're looking for bad press,...I'd keep these conditions under wraps with a qualified therapist of psychology. Getting ill or sick for attention is not considered a normal operative condition of mentality. Everyone loves positive attention of one kind or another,...but having to make yourself sick or ill in order to get it is self defeating.
2007-02-26 09:43:16 · answer #1 · answered by scott s 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know somebody that does this. What she does is everything somebody else has, she gets it a million times worse. For example if I get a cold, 100% guarenteed(my husband and I have bet on it) she will call the next morning and have a cold only it is just a killer. The biggest joke was when my brother got food poisoning, she had it too! Ya, they live 100 miles apart, what are the odds? Somebody that does this is in desperate need of attention, it would be sad if it wasn't so pathetic.
2007-02-26 17:32:41 · answer #2 · answered by Stuck in the middle of nowhere 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
my mother in law is like this. She is constantly sick all the time and when other ppl. complain they might be getting sick she is getting sick too. It may not just be an ailment either they can also say they are afraid they have certain diseases too.
2007-02-26 17:40:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lots of different illnesses, inconsistant symptoms which can change rapidly. Whatever the topic of conversation the person always manipulates it back to them and their "condition"!
2007-02-26 17:29:50 · answer #4 · answered by huggz 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
usually a tightness in the front of my jeans... followed by a somewhat embarassing shift to become more comfortable or effort to hide it. LoL
I usually like a lot of attention during those times.
2007-02-26 17:31:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
theyre usually all klingy and dependant, and when theyre having fun or do something they like (e.g. favourite dinner or watch a certain program on tv) the ailments all suddenly dissapear.
they also tend to exaggerate when you (try to) ignore them.
2007-02-26 17:30:48 · answer #6 · answered by mrzwink 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually if it's something you haven't felt or had before.
Sometimes it's better to be safe than sorry.
2007-02-26 17:30:35 · answer #7 · answered by B T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They go out in public with no panties on, they marry somebody for 55 hours, they marry some loser who leaves his pregnant girlfriend, and they shave their head.
2007-02-26 17:30:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋