95% of people on social media who claim to have "depression/anxiety/bipolar disorder" are full of shit, and it's ruining it for people who actually have mental health problems.

I didn't say all of them. I'm talking about younger people nowadays on twitter and snapchat who keep claiming that they're clinically depressed and bipolar but use it as a way of getting attention and not because they actually are. I'm tired of going on Twitter and hearing people say "I wish I fell asleep and didn't wake up lmao" because most of these people aren't actually suicidal or depressed. Maybe they are going through a tough time, maybe they are stressed out about an upcoming test, but there's a difference between being stressed out and having crippling depression that has been diagnosed by a psychologist and not by some online self-diagnosis test.

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