It sucks because it’s basically the result of a shitty mental health system breaking down. If people’s mental health was given proper supports and resources, there would be no need to go on TikTok and self-dx and use potentially inaccurate terminology or info. But as it stands, self dx is the safest route for some people. And the culture of blaming individual people and trying to find “fakers” doesn’t help at all.

And then there’s just general language decay and all the intersectional baggage that comes with it. In the same way that “woke” lost its racial connotations amongst white Twitter libs, “emotional labor” lost its gendered and its class connotations. It’s all spectacle