Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Enjoying the attention of others is quite socially acceptable. In some instances, however, the need for attention can lead to difficulties. The term attention seeking (or attention-seeking) is generally reserved for such situations, where excessive and inappropriate attention seeking is seen. Examples of attention seeking include: the man who complains loudly in a restaurant so that everyone will notice, the girl who wears the skimpiest of outfits on a cold winter night, the mother who sighs loudly and crashes the dinner dishes about so that the family will hear that she''s a martyr to domesticity.