[louissan]

I cannot help but wonder.

When did everyone suddenly start spending what seems to be a non negligible amount of time worrying if they are affected by this or that or that or this?

To be clear: I do not mean to belittle / deny the right or need of people who are genuinely affected by certain conditions. But I do worry (as a parent of teenage children) as to whether this sudden (a few years? max a decade old) wave of "I'm pretty sure I have <INSERT_ACRONYM>" or "I'd better get tested for <INSERT_ANOTHER_CODE> before X or Y happens" is real or not. In some cases, could it be a fad?

As the insensitive bastard that I am (to almost quote my eldest the other day... :) my god I love this child), I cannot help but conflate this with how overwhelmingly present "mental health" issues have become. Twitter? Check. The BBC? Check. Instagram and YT? Check. Everywhere. Like it or not, the "me-me-me-I'm-a-victim" also feels like a very trendy thing nowadays.

Whatever happened to toughing it out and becoming better/stronger in the process? Has such a view of things and self-betterment in adversity completely fallen out of fashion? Have we all become babies to be nannied? Is this now all viewed as "male, pale and stale"?

I cannot help but think (the "300x" is made up, but you will get the idea I hope): . either genuine mental conditions have started to plague humanity 300x times more in the past 30 years . or today's physicians have started to worry 300x more about it, hence diagnose it 300x more often . or physicians from 30 years didn't give a flying flamingo about it . or all of the above

What times we live in. We all have our small (or larger) problems -- and I do worry about the the system's influence on my children's ability to become beautiful, responsible and independent adults in the future.

To quote: "The busy bee has no time for sorrow".

[bluefirebrand]

> Whatever happened to toughing it out and becoming better/stronger in the process?

This literally is not possible with a lot of mental health problems.

When your brain chemistry or your literal brain development is messed up, how are you supposed to just tough it out?

It's crazy to think that people can just overpower their own brain chemistry.

[louissan]

Of course - actual medical conditions must be treated.

In case my original post was not clear, I wonder if the _idea_ of being affected by ailment X or Y has become fashionable. That's all.

[seba_dos1]

> When did everyone suddenly start spending what seems to be a non negligible amount of time worrying if they are affected by this or that or that or this?

I don't spend time "worrying if I may be affected". Who does?

My reaction to reading up on the topic was "oooooh, so many things that didn't make sense about my behavior suddenly make sense now". It was a happy moment.

Reading up more, I started to find advice that actually works. Which was extremely refreshing, as most of the advice I was getting before outright failed, regardless of how hard I tried to implement it. Now I know why.

Are you sure you aren't fighting a straw man?

Mindlessly "toughing it out" is exactly how you end up with people who aren't responsible and independent and have no slightest clue on why or how to change it.

[ParetoOptimal]

> I cannot help but conflate this with how overwhelmingly present "mental health" issues have become.

Just because they are more present doesn't mean they are being faked. I believe that mental health issues were largely ignored before.

Now people are paying attention, so more cases are caught.

> To quote: "The busy bee has no time for sorrow".

The busy bee I picture when you say this also lives with high stress, is easy to anger, and doesn't talk about their feelings in a health way or at all.