Help with a term from psychology.

[LastPoet]

I used to know this one, back when I was getting my bachelor's. It is the term for a person who will take ANY attention, good or bad, just so long as they are being acknowledged as being alive. Very pathetic, but it does describe trolls effectively.

Dunno, I will ask my sister shrink when I see her on sunday.

I do wonder what motivates them to go on and sockpuppet after, to extremes like filling up the registration form more than once a day.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I used to know this one, back when I was getting my bachelor's. It is the term for a person who will take ANY attention, good or bad, just so long as they are being acknowledged as being alive. Very pathetic, but it does describe trolls effectively.

Dunno, I will ask my sister shrink when I see her on sunday.

I do wonder what motivates them to go on and sockpuppet after, to extremes like filling up the registration form more than once a day.

There was a case study of a young man who spent 90% of his time in jail. When he was released he would immediately do something like running into a bank waving a toy gun. He told his case worker that he was just lonely.

[The Valkyrie]

Schizophrenic sociopath with narcissistic tendencies and megalomaniacal delusions.

[LastPoet]

Dunno, I will ask my sister shrink when I see her on sunday.

I do wonder what motivates them to go on and sockpuppet after, to extremes like filling up the registration form more than once a day.

There was a case study of a young man who spent 90% of his time in jail. When he was released he would immediately do something like running into a bank waving a toy gun. He told his case worker that he was just lonely.

I only got 56k net at 20. I missed 4chan 4 a few years I guess.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Schizophrenic sociopath with narcissistic tendencies and megalomaniacal delusions.

Let's leave politics out of this, m'kay? 

[The Valkyrie]

Schizophrenic sociopath with narcissistic tendencies and megalomaniacal delusions.

Let's leave politics out of this, m'kay? 

Sorry, I thought this thread was about me!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Let's leave politics out of this, m'kay? 

Sorry, I thought this thread was about me!

It wasn't, but not that you're here...

[Seraphina]

I guess I should know this - I have a bachelor's degree in psychology and worked in the field for a time. But that was way back in the 90s lol.
A better description would be helpful but probably narcissist. I had the misfortune recently of getting to know a flaming narcissist a little bit too well.

BTW - off topic but did you recover from your double pneumonia??

-Teresa

My BA dates from '97. Only used to examine motivations of political and military figures in WWII. 

The pneumonia seems to be taking advantage of my interstitial lung disease to hang on tenaciously.

That's no bueno. I hope you recover soon.

-Teresa

[bennyboy]

I think the term is. . . atheist. That's what happens when you have no objective moral compass!

[Edwardo Piet]

Narcissist?

They're impressed with themselves, aren't they? This type has a negative image of themselves.

Hisitronic Personality Disorder?

Oh and to be clear, deep down narcissists don't really love themselves... they hide their self-loathing with a false self of thinking they're brilliant but behind that their true self loathes their fakeness.

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They're impressed with themselves, aren't they? This type has a negative image of themselves.

One could argue that a narcissist ultimately has a negative self-image (hence the insistence upon validation), but you have a point: that they only want positive attention (and in fact, they insist on it). I'm stumped.

No, Narcissists prefer positive attention but they'll take negative attention over no attention.