Faking Mental Illnesses

faking mental illnesses

okay first of I wanna say that I‘m not a professional or anything like that so this is just gonna be my opinion because I‘m sick and I don’t have anything to do. Also I‘m not even sure if anyone‘s even gonna read this but well.

since this has been on TikTok for a long time, it‘s basically unavoidable to not be confronted with this shit on your fyp. And it annoys the living shit out of my because people are just casually like: "oh yeah I got DID/ ADHD/autism“, heck even Alzheimer’s. And then they be showing how, for example, their alters taking over with the most horrible acting known to mankind. I mean, why would you do that? Those are illnesses that destroy people‘s life and you PRETEND to fucking have it for attention or just because it‘s quirky. It‘s fucking not. At this point I just wanna say that I have neither DID nor ADHD nor autism but I know some people who do (but like diagnosed) and it doesn’t seem to be pleasant or qUiRKy at all.

especially in the case of DID people will just introduce their alters as if they‘re goddamn OC‘s or something like that. That‘s just not how it works. And people doing it online is already annoying but I also have that one friend of mine that seems to think that it’s something cool as well.

a while ago she started telling everyone she had DID and she even made up names for her alters and what they‘re like, but now, a year and a half later she doesn’t even talk about it anymore and now say‘s she has autism. I don’t even really know what to say…

I’m not saying that every person is faking it, there are people out there who actually suffer from those mental illnesses but STOP making it up for attention. Self diagnosis is just something you do when you have a cold and sometimes you can maybe say "okay, I think I’m depressed/have a depressive episode", for example, because you‘re showing a lot of symptoms. And if that‘s the case you should go to a psychologist and do a checkup. Same goes for any of those illnesses but don’t go around, undiagnosed, and tell everyone how quirky you are because you have "autism", just because you show one symptom that fits to 50% of the human species.

I just hope I didn’t offend anyone who actually suffer‘s from those mental illnesses somehow. But I don’t think many people will actually read this anyways.