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Originally Posted by pylon
The term 'mental illness' gets thrown around way too liberally nowadays in my opinion. It's almost becoming chic to have some sort of mental disorder. Having a sad day, doesn't make you clinically depressed, it's just means you are having a sad day. It's human. Mental illness is now becoming the new celiac disease. Everyone seems to be self diagnosing. it does kinda bother me, as someone who has lived through the absolute crippling effects of depression, you know the people that are playing the mental illness 'munchausen' card.
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Cripes. As someone who went through some of this I would have thought you would have some empathy. On what basis are you able to diagnos someone's mental state? Sure there are probably some people that abuse the term, but what there needs to be now is more empathy not less. If that means some people get some sympathy that they don't deserve so be it.
Often people can seem to be very normal on the surface, and by the time they clearly are showing signs of mental illness - it is far too late.
To suggest it has become "chic" to have a mental illness is a very ignorant statement in my view.