Much of any analysis of Amanda’s problems is reduced to guesswork, mainly because we don’t know the true, full story and evidence shows many contradictions.
Could it be histrionic personality disorder? Most of the boxes are ticked.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histrionic_personality_disorder
“Histrionic personality disorder (HPD) is defined by the American Psychiatric Association as a personality disorder characterized by a pattern of excessive attention-seeking emotions, usually beginning in early adulthood, including inappropriately seductive behavior and an excessive need for approval. Histrionic people are lively, dramatic, vivacious, enthusiastic, and flirtatious.”
Additional characteristics may include:
- Exhibitionist behavior
- Constant seeking of reassurance or approval
- Excessive sensitivity to criticism or disapproval
- Pride of own personality and unwillingness to change, viewing any change as a threat
- Inappropriately seductive appearance or behavior of a sexual nature
- Using somatic symptoms (of physical illness) to garner attention
- A need to be the center of attention
- Low tolerance for frustration or delayed gratification
- Rapidly shifting emotional states that may appear superficial or exaggerated to others
- Tendency to believe that relationships are more intimate than they actually are
- Making rash decisions[4]
- Blaming personal failures or disappointments on others
- Being easily influenced by others, especially those who treat them approvingly
- Being overly dramatic and emotional[5]
- Influenced by the suggestions of others[6]
Some people with histrionic traits or personality disorder change their seduction technique into a more maternal or paternal style as they age.[7]
Mnemonic
A mnemonic that can be used to remember the characteristics of histrionic personality disorder is shortened as “PRAISE ME”:[8][9]
- Provocative (or seductive) behavior
- Relationships are considered more intimate than they actually are
- Attention-seeking
- Influenced easily by others or circumstances
- Speech (style) wants to impress; lacks detail
- Emotional lability; shallowness
- Make-up; physical appearance is used to draw attention to self
- Exaggerated emotions; theatrical”
An interesting point is this:
“Though criticised as being unsupported by scientific evidence, psychoanalytic theories incriminate authoritarian or distant attitudes by one (mainly the mother) or both parents, along with conditional love based on expectations the child can never fully meet.[3] Using psychoanalysis, Freud believed that lustfulness was a projection of the patient’s lack of ability to love unconditionally and develop cognitively to maturity, and that such patients were overall emotionally shallow.[15] He believed the reason for being unable to love could have resulted from a traumatic experience, such as the death of a close relative during childhood or divorce of one’s parents, which gave the wrong impression of committed relationships. Exposure to one or multiple traumatic occurrences of a close friend or family member’s leaving (via abandonment or mortality) would make the person unable to form true and affectionate attachments towards other people.”
The True Story of Amanda Todd 