Are Conspiracy Theorist just looking for attention?

I’m not happy to say, but I have a few friends, and even a couple of family members who blow up my email with Conspiracy Theory.

Everything from Obama being the Anti-Christ to Planet X collision on 2012.

In every situation, those who send me these emails have either lost their job, lost their SO, is depressed, or generally doesn’t have anything notable to speak of for their life goals.

It’s almost like since they don’t have anything going on, they’re looking for some kind of validation or attention by enlightening me with secret knowledge that only they have been made privy to. It seems like a way of saying, “Although my life sucks right now, I want you to know that I’m still special.”

To make things worse, instead of getting up and exercising, or doing something special for themselves, they tend to fall deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole of Conspiracy Theory. It also seems like they complain about society a lot more than before. As if looking for someone or something to blame their dour outlook upon.

Am I mistaken here? Or should I heed their secret wisdom by storing food and batteries preparing to protect my children from the jaws of doom?