What's the worst example of attention-seeking behavior you've seen?

used to work in healthcare, had a patient with really bad attention-seeking behaviors. if you didn't give them what they wanted, they'd work themselves up into absolute hysteria. They insisted on having two staff take them to the bathroom in spite of being perfectly capable of doing it themselves. On one occasion, in spite of being told to wait to stand back up until we had everything in place to "help" (person had a tendency to pretend they couldn't stand, and falls are bad), but they stood up anyway. Their catheter tube had gotten caught underneath the toilet seat and standing up so rapidly caused it to be torn out. (For those unfamiliar with foley catheters, basically there's a tiny balloon towards the end of it that is inflated once inserted to keep it from slipping out. it has to be deflated before removal or else you're pulling a balloon between the size of a gobstopper and a gumball all the way from your bladder through your urethra and into the world). The person's screams were horrifying, and I can't imagine how badly that must have hurt, but they were noticeably less needy the rest of the day. (gender neutral words used because HIPPA is scary).

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