Is your behavior attention seeking? Are you purposely reaching out to people you don't really know in times of crisis? It would come off as not genuine if someone I barely knew kept coming to me and being "overdramatic." It seems pretty important to you that people know about your illness. That's pretty attention seeking.

People who don't know you are not going to understand your mental illness.

While you should have a support system of people you trust in place (ie, people who you have long standing relationships with and not just people who don't know you) it's really important that you are able to self-sooth.

If you stop seeking attention for your illness people will stop thinking you're an attention seeker.