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?

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!