[Redway]

Neurodivergence is definitely over-identified with and that’s a major gripe I have. I hate people trivialising depression or having no acknowledgment of its spectrum of severity (from mild low mood to nihilistic, self-accusatory psychosis on the backdrop of catatonic stupor and emaciation), its corresponding range of treatments (from citalopram or routine talk-therapy to tranyclypromine + electro-convulsive treatment), too. But there seems to be less of that now than there was 7 or 8 years ago. Now it’s all about self-diagnosing oneself with A(u)DHD. That’s the main problem now.

Severe depression isn’t such a common condition, not in the way that that anxiety disorders and mild depressive states are.