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?

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.