As you can see from my post, I love rambling. So no need to apologize! Very good comment here, and you reminded me of the issue of glamorizing "fashionable" mental illness such as EDs, depression, anxiety, etc. It does as much harm to the stigma of mental illness as actual prejudice against people with legitimate mental illness. Mental illness is a serious thing and it's becoming easier and easier to talk about, accept, understand, and treat. But it has a LONG way to go, and a LOT of work to be done to take the stigma away. If I can use depression as an example, it can kill you. It can straight up destroy you so fiercely that you lose every ounce of care you ever had and just clock out. Or, it can just make you simply lose patience for people and not want to be around them. And it can do EVERYTHING in between. It affects every victim differently, and can be incredibly hard to detect or misdiagnose. It can lead to other mental illnesses. It can go away seemingly on it's own, never to be seen again, or can be a chronic issue for the rest of your life. But as serious of an illness as it is, there are still many people who say "oh just cheer up, you just need to go outside more, you're exaggerating, what do you have to be sad about?" not realizing the illness is internal and largely unaffected by the outside environment. Some people still feel shame when they consider seeking help, thinking they must be crazy or weak to have to see a therapist about having a bad day. It can hurt, a lot. But you know what doesn't help? Glamourizing it, having perfectly healthy people pretend it ails them just so they can get attention. It dilutes legitimate victims, making it harder for them to get the medical attention they need. Making it harder to understand the symptoms when they are conflated with false ones. Making it harder for people to take you seriously when you say "I have depression" because they just met 6 other people claiming to be "depressed" despite being perfectly fine, requiring no special attention and requiring none of the very limited support that is offered.  Crying wolf is never good. it helps no one. It harms everyone. But hams want attention so they do it anyway. Because fuck everyone else, so long as fatty feefees are safe.