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  • I’m certainly not naive enough to ignore that this happens. I do personally believe that these people are outliers and not the rule. But I talk with people who are misdiagnosed all the time. I personally have bipolar with a trend towards mania, and I talk with people who tell me they’re bipolar often enough and they don’t meet the requirements for the diagnosis at all.

    And lastly, the stigma of mental illness is fading which is great, but what isn’t is people are self diagnosing themselves left right and center. They then use this self diagnosis as a crutch. Which in my belief is the opposite of what a diagnosis should be, a tool to help you improve your life


  • I mean I think that part of it is the loss of connection in the digital age.

    The improved quality of diagnosis.

    I also think that we may be misdiagnosing people who aren’t able to have the resources to survive as depressed. Like “huh you’re sad all the time and constantly stressed, gotta be depression and not that you have to work 2 jobs to live in a shithole and be one car accident from losing your home” I say this not as someone who wants to dismiss depression, but as someone who works with mentally ill addicts and sees that a lot of people are perhaps not chemically depressed but situationally, and they’re never given a chance to leave the situation.

















  • Hell no, I was far more popular out of school, I went to a small private school and was the poor kid there. I was also mentally ill and and addict, so at a Christian school I was reviled. However in my neighborhood and other areas I was well liked and did well socially.

    Now I’m sober, and mentally stable and would say I’m popular within our recovery community