yet another thread where someone peeks into a room through a keyhole and thinks they have a wide-angle view of the whole room

ignorance is bliss

I envy them

f*** webmd

I got into it once to search bout headaches and left with cancer

two words why

SOCIAL MEDIA

oversimplification of a very complicated event

okay boomer

I actually agree ... it be the slightest inconveniences that make these kids wanna do sum’ crazy. & these so called “accurately diagnoses” really are designed to push pills on kids

Like we know that dietary treatment of the microbiome can reduce symptoms of autism by 50% and put diseases like chrons into remission. We know that there are nanoplastics crossing our blood-brain barrier but we don't know the effects. We see our bosses boss buy a 3rd house while we think "maybe next year I can afford therapy" But I'm sure it's just SOCIAL MEDIA

I'm so done with people who speak with such authority on s*** they know so little about. I'm f***ing fed up with it.

We should have that conversation then talking about it gen z has too much awareness like acting like it’s bad thing

how exactly did the mental health movement destroy their life? did they just "make it part of their identity" and then life ruined

its so f***ing complicated man.

my wife is in a field of study where she learns a lot about mental disorders and mental health. She's always had some depression. But in the last 2 years her depression has escalated in really dramatic ways, and the mental health awareness (imo) did way more to exacerbate it than help it. while shes technically now only been diagnosed with mild depression and anxiety, shes also diagnosed herself with many other things.

this past spring she went into a manic state that put her at peak levels of paranoia. She was following and posting in mental health communities on social media literally 24 hours a day, and i wish i was exaggerating. while in this community she convinced herself that she had been raped or sexually abused as a child but had simply repressed it. She had no evidence except for how she felt at that particular time, and what she was reading about this kind of repression.

she started calling family members and point blank accusing them of raping or molesting her when she had no evidence. She called her grandma to accuse an uncle of the same. When i objected to this behavior she accused me of being ignorant and not accepting her condition or whatever. She started becoming hostile and violent towards me. This whole time she had a counselor that she called a therapist (because medicaid doesnt cover anything legitimate) that affirmed her behaviors and how she felt twice a week.

by mid-may she wanted to call the police and get a restraining order against me when i had legitimately done nothing. she was claiming i had abused her mentally, physically, sexually, and financially (???) when i would never think of doing any of these things. she never did take action, but we've been living separate since then. She's gotten better, and is finally getting some legitimate psychiatric help. We've actually been hanging out a lot more and hopefully she'll feel ready to move back in soon.

maybe im too close to this one situation, so i probably shouldnt chime in on a general statement about all of gen z. But ive watched this particular situation play out very close to me, and if its whole communities of people in these social media groups im sure my wife isnt the only one who was negatively affected.

damn i just wrote a whole ass essay.

lol i shouldve just said yes

Holding pharmaceutical companies accountable would probably help a lot, who remembers when the Opioid crisis was all the rage?

I was on antidepressants since 7th grade, I'm 23 and recently went off of them. My parents are both on some too, but they keep pushing them on me. I honestly took them my entire teenage years, I can't tell if I'm depressed or not anymore, it's so weird.

Complete donkey brained OP my god

@S lock this one too while you’re around

I appreciate yalls perspective and give it consideration

not claiming to be a mental health expert, just expressing what I see

They’re as clueless as those they try to talk down on seem to them

I actually don’t completely agree w what op is saying but I still think it’s a conversation worth having.

OP got a point. Atleast sometimes.

Many people who self diagnose themselves often use it as some sort of security. Instead of trying to change themselves in order to solve their issues they shift blame. Like how am I supposed to lose weight when I got this eating disorder

Also mental health issues is not something that just randomly hits people and they can do nothing about it. It feels like people are more and mote sensitive about it but understand it less and less.