Should You Identify With Your Mental Illness?
All the kids are doing it.
If you’ve suffered from a mental illness, then you know how personal it is. You know how it’s something that you’re forced to deal with alone.
So, if you’re growing up, and this pain is such a significant part of your life and personality, do you identify with it?
Do you base who you are around this problem you have? That’s what teenagers are doing now. But why?
Young People Identifying with Mental Illness
A Tik Tok trend picked up steam recently.
Teenagers have been posting videos of themselves self-diagnosing borderline personality disorder — a serious, but not super common mental illness.
According to USA Today:
Posts with the hashtags, “dissociative identity disorder” and “borderline personality disorder” have been viewed hundreds of millions of times. And some of those videos list possible signs to look out for and encourage viewers to self-evaluate.
Kids want to diagnose themselves with something.
They want to be able to say, “I suffer from this.” Or, “This is what I’m going through right now.”
