This is something that’s always bothered me and honestly made me feel often like I was faking my mental health issues. It’s really gross seeing people on apps like tik tok fake having the very conditions that drive many to suicide and a life of pain. What is “cool” about that? A few likes on your video? So fucking stupid. (This is coming from someone who does have a few viral videos on tik tok. You don’t have to lie about having fucking illnesses to get likes if it’s so important to you. Just be fucking normal and respectful.) there are definitely little communities on tik tok who do talk about mental health in a safe and realistic space and I absolutely love it, but it’s fucking annoying to see mentally stable people like those things and comment and say “this is so me!!!” no the fuck it is not, this post was not made for you, you literally don’t have any of the conditions they were talking about. I think videos and posts about mental health at a scientific standpoint, joking to cope with pain, romanticization you name it are all extremely important to those in this community. But mentally stable people will look at them and claim them as their own. We can’t fucking have anything bro. Don’t even get me started on people who fake it in real life, I’ve met people who have lied to my face and show me their fake “scars” and tell me they’ve been in a “mental hospital”…..I’m just so tired of our illness and ailments being a “quirky trend”. I don’t like to say “I hate gen z” often because I think there’s good and bad in any group of people and this generation does have a lot to give in a positive way. But this is the rare occasion where I will say I truly despise what our generation has done making mental illness a fucking trend. Sorry I started ranting, this has been bothering me a lot.

Its perfectly fine to rant you didn't bother me and I agree on your statement, I actually had this friend I forgot their name it was like in 6th grade. She was over her telling people she had this "chronic condition" which she stated as 'Having DID' and I asked her what her 'alters' names where. She literally said 'PRIVACY' which is a name of my childhood friend she had a crush on like 😃 I don't believe at that time I think it was still gen z which is after 2004. 6th grade I tell you I don't remember what year it was when I was in 6th my birthday is Dec. 19 so like idk. And it was funny she was going around literally HARASSING people who got near her 'man' and blamed her 'alters'. Now I don't know if there was a lot of information about DID, OSDD at that time. She got referred to a psychiatrist which evaluated her and asked her about her childhood how home was because it was like long-term trauma related. It was studied for years at least to the 1990s at most and I wasn't born in the 1990s. Yeah she got pulled from that school never saw her again 👌

I absolutely hate people who fake it, it makes it harder for everyone. I don’t want to have ADHD, it’s not quirky or fun. It sucks, it’s emotionally draining sometimes, hard to focus on important stuff, etc.

I hate that people do this. A video like that could really be huge source of misinformation for someone. I love having user-made content about my disorder to learn from but I'm not new to the diagnosis. Seeing some of this stuff when I was a newly diagnosed teen (back in the days before social media lol) could have been disastrous. It was hard enough to wrap my head around already! Thanks for the rant, I didn't know this was a thing.

Amongst other things, I have elhers danlos, it is so painful and hard it sucks. I hate this so so much. I have multiple physical and mental disorders and need to us mobility aids to walk, and I’ve had a bunch of surgeries I hate it so much when people fake it for clout especially because some of my stuff is so rare like there’s no way these people have it. People also romanticize it and don’t get how horrible it is. They really discredit those of us with real diseases