PhronesisCompulsive oversharing — the chronic pattern of disclosing intimate, private, or traumatic information prematurely, excessively, or to inappropriate audiences — is here formally reconceptualized as a wrong attractor W_OS in the landscape of calibrated vulnerability. The healthy ground state S^0 is defined as calibrated vulnerability: the capacity to disclose personal information proportionally to the depth and trustworthiness of the relationship, building intimacy through reciprocal, gradual self-revelation.
W_OS is constituted by the intimacy-shortcut confusion: the individual uses disclosure as a proxy for the closeness that the relationship has not yet earned. The intimacy-shortcut loop is the primary basin mechanism: disclosure feels like closeness; recipient withdrawal signals rejection; escalated disclosure attempts to restore closeness, deepening rejection and the basin. Three distinct mechanisms maintain the attractor: the anxiety-discharge function (oversharing as offloading emotional content rather than processing it), the digital disinhibition effect (online contexts remove normal disclosure calibration), and anxious attachment (disclosure as proximity-seeking).
W_OS is rigorously distinguished from healthy vulnerability, exhibitionism, and histrionic personality pattern. Nine formal propositions characterize these mechanisms alongside basin deepeners, the recipient burden and withdrawal dynamic, social media as industrial oversharing infrastructure, and return paths through Altman's social penetration theory therapeutically applied.