Not sure how to go about telling this story but I’ll give it a shot. Sent an innocent meme about being bipolar to my friend who is self diagnosed (which i don’t take issue with but please bear with me) and it started a dumpster fire.

So I love my friend I really do,but she’s the kind of person to see a tiktok about mental health and immediately cling to it. In the past she’s claimed to have adhd, ocd, ptsd, and now she’s decided to add bipolar to the roster.

She said caffeine makes her hysterical and this is why she’s bipolar. I’d also like to point out that I’ve been friends with her for about 3 years and I’ve never really seen her with symptoms of mania or depression and I hangs out with her at least once a week since we’ve been friends. When I pointed this out she retorted that another friend saw her manic at one point in time and that I’m invalidating her and that I coincidentally despite seeing her so frequently for such a long time I’ve just missed all of the symptoms. 

I’d also like to mention that she’s not on any sort of medication or anything and she’s super against taking any so again it’s not like she’s been diagnosed and managing symptoms with medicine/therapy.

Anyways she stopped talking to me and I kind of feel like shit about it but at the same time I got really fed up with the whole “I love collecting mental disorders” tiktok mindset. I’m just wondering am I valid in being upset or did I go too far by raising my concerns?

Tl:dr friend and I got into an argument about mental health and stopped talking for the night and kind of feel like shit.