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When did everyone become so obsessed with Mental Health?

I’ve noticed this new trend lately. People especially around college age and on social media are always bringing up mental health and mental illness. Bringing awareness about it.

Which that’s all perfectly okay but today I’ve noticed people having a heated argument on Facebook. These two girls in my town (college age) were bantering back and forth who has a worse mental illness. One was claiming she was scrizo the other claimed the other was bi polar. And then the other said she had PTSD. And I can’t say if they do or don’t have any of these things.

But the disturbing thing was that they thought since they took some classes on cognitive science that made them legally allowed to diagnose people with mental health issues.

In another situation my sister claims she has PTSD because of my mother.

Let me tell you that is a lie. My mother has been nothing but the best and I couldn’t have asked for a better life. The arguments get so bad it leaves me mom in tears because she can’t understand what she did.

Turns out my sisters friend “diagnosed” my sister with PTSD. And blamed it on my mom...

Do you think some people are just wanting to be victims and want attention or is there a wave of mental illness flowing?
TakingBackMidgard
26-30, M
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curiosi · 61-69, F
It happened about the time "Prozac" came out. This book is an interesting read. It is written as an autobiography but really tells it like it is with how doctors and big pharma are in collusion to get everyone medicated.
http://docshare01.docshare.tips/files/20788/207888145.pdf
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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@curiosi There has been research done on some mood-altering drugs and also allergy medications and they have found them to blunt empathy. Wonder why our world has gotten so messed up?
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curiosi · 61-69, F
@cherokeepatti Fluoride because adding it to the water supply wasn't working fast enough. It messes with the receptor's in your brain. And that's just the beginning.
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Fake1212445 · 31-35, M
@curiosi Meds can help but I don't think any are good long term, in my not expert opinion lol. I was given anxiety meds to deal with panic attacks for a little bit by some VA doc, Said take 3 times daily as needed and I would take 1 maybe every few days when a bad one hit me. Even that had me feeling sleepy and not mysrlf, now i have a wife and kid that have helped me not take anything.
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Fake1212445 · 31-35, M
Like my old pal George Carlin said this stuff happend when they made the language soft. Used to not even be PTSD, it was shell shock from troops returning from war. Now any anxiety can be called PTSD smh.
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Fake1212445 · 31-35, M
Man i wish i could see what he would be saying these days.
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TakingBackMidgard · 26-30, M
@Fake1212445 they probably wouldn’t let him on college grounds I know that for sure.
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Fake1212445 · 31-35, M
@TakingBackMidgard true, they'd prob say he was a racist or some nonsense.
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Elandra77
Ir's been a few years. When blogger could not make money for thier blogs they studied what could make it. that was makeup and fashion blogs that were very good and MH/MR blogs. All of a sudden it was possible to get advertisers and ad click on their blogs as they were talking of a point that every WILL HAVE at some point in their life.

I do not have fb and never will. They spy and sell too much! But on twitter the same topic is much more civil and quite popular.

There are some that may want to be a victim-that seems to be the in thing for the past 20 years or so. When I was young, in the 1960's and 70's that was what WE DID NOT want! And the time before that.

My grandmother, who had her first child in 1921 and the last in 1936 NEVER accepted welfare, WC (Women's comfort-what welfare was before there WAS welfare), or any federal or states subsidized program. She REFUSED to be a victim!
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LukeTheDuke · M
I think there is something in what you say. Mental health issues went from being under-recognised to being overly used. And sometimes simple human disappointment, sadness and frustration has to be given a medical cause and a mental health label.
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Ryannnnnn · 31-35, M
There's a worrying trend of self diagnosis and young people tend to wear it as an identity for attention or don't know what they really are.
The fact they were arguing about it confirms they either don't have them or were just arguing over who's the biggest victim.
Bi-polars one of the most debilitating illnesses a person can have and some say they have PTSD from being shouted at in a store once, though it originates from shell shock as a war time illness from watching people die or killing people.
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Fake1212445 · 31-35, M
Id also like to say it's not just kids that took a class who are trigger happy with diagnosing someone. Even trained professionals do it way to often now a days in my opinion. I had guys in my unit who never even deployed that would claim PTSD and other mental illnesses just to get a VA check when they got out. It sucks bc it makes it harder for the ones who need help to get it.
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Grateful4you · M
Oh hell, decades ago in my college day's everyone was quoting Maslow's "pyrimid of needs"...lately, being "Bi-polar" is the diagnosis of the week for the psych. folks.

The only area of Psych. I subscribe to these day's is "Positive psychcology" or the psychology of happiness.
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wackidywack · 22-25
I think it's great that mental health is finally getting the regard it needs but also yes, knowledge or at least a bit of knowledge of it can turn into inaccurate diagnosis, argument and just ignorance despite knowing a bit of it, ironically.

Sometimes, I just think it's the need for answers that people do and say these these things but I'm not saying that what they say is alright because they may be confused, or that they may be in pain (in your sister's case). What she says is painful. You don't want to put pressure like that on people, so you better protect your mom because that can hurt HER mental health.
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goagainsttheflow · 26-30, F
People clearly want to be victims when they want to be as mentally messed up as possible.
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Wiseacre · F
Yes, childhood trauma can indeed cause PTSD..
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