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[–]Finnegan7921 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It isn't an increase, it is self-diagnosis and the acceptance of such self-diagnoses that is the real problem. how many people run around posting, for all the world to see "I have anxiety", "I'm OCD", and my absolute fucking favorite, "I'm an introvert"...people who have never seen a mental health professional... yet the world just accepts it b/c if someone tells them to buck up and deal with things, you're a monster.

I commented on an AITA post where a teenage girl "came out" as non binary, and the OP laughed b/c the OP isn't a moron. I defended OP and well, you know what happened next.

[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Imagine if this level of encouragement was given to other psychic epidemics that impact young women, i.e. anorexia.

And then imagine once they literally begin starving to death, the legacy media wondering incredulously who was "murdering" all these women?

[–]Finnegan7921 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I can just see a doctor saying "look, you just have to accept her truth.." to a set of parents as their daughter starved to death, or cut herself repeatedly, or binged and purged......that would go well. /s

[–]BiologyIsReal 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree that self-diagnosis is wrong, however, you can't self-diagnose as an introvert because introversion is not a mental illness.