Constantly Terrified of Faking My Mental Illness

feels good to know other people get this too!! it’s hard to validate your struggles but that’s why support groups and apps like these exist

i often feel fake too, (as shown by my lovely spam of recent posts) i try to avoid social media stuff like that, unless they’re medical professionals or part of the medical community i try to ignore them

I think a lot of people go through what you're going through. Try to avoid social media altogether when it comes to things like that. It's hard to discern which information is genuine or not, even if labeled as such. Even if you never had a diagnosis, your problems still affect you, right? And that's proof enough that you are having some sort of struggle. Listen to your psychiatrists, and let them know why you feel this way too. Although they can of course be wrong sometimes, experts can usually tell if someone is faking something (especially since that person themself has never experienced the issue so they wouldn't really know how to act it properly).