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Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

I can see his point to some extent, and controversially add to it.

I think that Social Media and celeb culture has encouraged some people (not all obviously) to pretend that they've got Mental Health issues to garner attention that they've seen the people who have genuine Mental Health issues receive.

Although that doesn't mean that we should just put a lot of it down to "challenges of life" either because I can only imagine where Tony Blair's line would be on this topic.

I don't see many people "pretending on purpose" to be fair, but I do see a lot of people with anxiety and depression that are down to lifestyle and not chemical imbalance that could be fixed (or prevented from happening in the first place) without meds, being medicated as a "first option", which is not great.

In terms of neurodiversity frankly I see a lot of people on SoMed self-diagnosing ADHD and Autism when both their heavily-damaged attention span and their social issues are sometimes just the result of the tech itself and under-socialisation.