 A lot of people don't  seem to  understand that most mental health diagnosis (with a few  exceptions)  don't really have much of a specific pathology. They're  essentially  spectrum disorders that become "illnesses" when they meet  certain  criteria that relate to how much said behaviors interfere  with/impact  your role in society. Yet people act like a diagnosis of ADHD is almost  like cancer or cystic fibrosis. We are just turning normal behavior into  disorders - just because you can't explain something fully it doesn't  make it not real, there are  a lot of 'disorders' that seem like coping  mechanisms that have outgrown their usefulness. At some point "mental  health awareness" became more about  categorizing and labeling behavior,  and less about awareness or understanding.

While  it was seemingly harmless when it was dealing with kids who were having  hard time paying attention or socializing-- or stressed out  professionals and mothers. We've now crept into the territory of trauma,  neurodevelopment, sexuality, gender, and ultimately morality.

Trendy  ailments isn't exclusive to mental illnesses-- but not to this extreme.  Trendy physical ailments have always (or virtually always) had to do  with diet and weight.

I see no  evidence that "mental health awareness" is helping anybody other than  high-functioning people to fetishize their neurosis and be applauded for  it. The concept of affirming and accepting everyone's "condition"  has  completely corrupted morality by asking us to accept everyone's concept  of trauma and hardship-- and this movement faces virtually no  resistance.

 

[https://katmorriswriter.medium.com/dissociative-identity-disorder-is-not-a-trend-its-a-coping-mechanism-for-severe-childhood-trauma-db72e7bd980b](https://katmorriswriter.medium.com/dissociative-identity-disorder-is-not-a-trend-its-a-coping-mechanism-for-severe-childhood-trauma-db72e7bd980b)

[https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/teenage-girls-suffer-explosion-of-tics-in-lockdown-0s3rnl2nm](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/teenage-girls-suffer-explosion-of-tics-in-lockdown-0s3rnl2nm)

[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6095578/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6095578/)

[https://www.elephantjournal.com/2021/05/when-did-having-trauma-become-trendy-vanessa-murray/](https://www.elephantjournal.com/2021/05/when-did-having-trauma-become-trendy-vanessa-murray/)

[https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-neurodiversity-movement-has-become-harmful](https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-neurodiversity-movement-has-become-harmful)