Mental illness is not trendy or cool to have Seems to be a lot of people online and in person...

Keepitsimple · 51-55, F

I don’t think it’s good to announce you have a mental illness on social media. As an employer your resume would go in the garbage. Wouldn’t want drama or my building blowing up.

PepsiColaP

A lot of people here weaponise mental illness or episodes of it to gain empathy or to excuse being abusive towards others. That itself is a sign of mental illness

JaggedLittlePill · 46-50, F

Maybe they are desperate to figure out why they struggle and find ways to help themselves.

Instead of assuming people are desperate to be labeled..assume health care, including mental health care, is seriously lacking and that people are seeking these answers on their own because they can't afford to go to professionals.

summersong · F

Sometimes just having a name for what you’re going through is incredibly helpful. You can’t address what you can’t identify.

SW-User

That's harsh and comes with a little judgment of things you might not know about. There are things in this world I still don't understand at my age and sometimes I partake in them.

JustGoneNow

I would like to not have any. That would be cool. I don’t know why anybody would want anything I suffer from.

gol979 · 41-45, M

Validation via "trauma". An inevitability in this insane open air asylum we call society

finitysmith · F

I do hate it too. Someone on here tried claiming they have CP to explain their weird tendencies. But my cousin actually has it so I could tell right away they were lying. It’s unfair to those that actually have the condition and got to suffer with it while others thinks it’s a exuse

vetguy1991 · 51-55, M

It's a series issue

Dewkissedrose · 46-50, F

I've noticed this too. As a teacher, I hear so many kids tell me how depressed they are. Some truly are, but it's difficult to separate them out.

Depression is no joke. I wish I were just labeling myself and didn't really have it.

justme21 · 26-30, M

I never went to a therapist to geta diagnosis or anything mostly cause mental health is considered as a taboo here but I'm wuiet sure I do have sone mebtlah health ilness like depression and anxiety

peroo10 · 26-30, M

Amen

JaggedLittlePill · 46-50, F

Also, unless you want to question everyone about the validity of their diagnosis, I would steer clear of deciding you can decipher real from fake or labeling things invalid.