attention seeking

For a few months now people have been telling me I use attention seeking behaviors.  I know I have because, according to Maslow, it is a basic human need to have attention and I am being consumed by loneliness.  I try so hard to do everything for the right reasons, not for attention, but then how do I get the attention I need?  I feel like I ask for it in appropriate ways and people still ignore me because they think it's attention seeking.  It feels like anything I do is wrong.  I don't know what to do anymore.  I have no one to talk to, nothing to do, no life to live for... Yes, I'm in the puddle and I don't care because there is no one there waiting for me to come out, there's no reason to try anymore.  I need motivation.