Gen Z has issues.

I am a 17 years old girl who was violently raped and gangraped, choked until I passed out and held at knifepoint a few years ago by a sadistic pervert and his friends (on multiple occasions) and it just... It makes me feel so angry when people say they have PTSD for the stupidest, smallest things. FFS. YOU DON'T HAVE PTSD BECAUSE YOUR CAT RAN AWAY ONCE. YOU DONT HAVE PTSD BECAUSE YOU WERE BULLIED A LITTLE BIT WHEN YOU WERE 8. READ ABOUT SHELL SHOCKED WAR VETERANS. READ ABOUT KIDNAPPING AND RAPE SURVIVORS. THAT IS PTSD.

It fucking pisses me off when people say they have OCD just because they like to keep their pens neat. OCD it is a real and debilitating condition that ruins people's lives! One of my siblings has it and it's heartbreaking to see him struggle to function throughout each day because of it, and hear people in my class say "oh that's so OCD of you" to people who are neat. My brother obsessively washes his hands, multiple times an hour. His hands are red and raw. There was a point in his teens when he refused to eat any food my parents cooked due to them being "contaminated". He could barely leave the house and go out in public. Would wait by doors for hours for somebody to come and open it. He's an adult now and is getting a lot better.

And ADHD and autism. Oh my goodness. I'm not even going to go into that but the amount of people that exaggerate about normal things and collect mental health conditions like their Pokemons or cool trophies to put on your social media profile... Who act as if it's cool, it's a "quirk" and do tests for them like they're personality tests and try to get diagnosed to be "different".

It's just so diminishing to real suffers. Gen Z has such an issue of glorifying mental health problems. I'm all for destigmatising but this? It's not right.

Like someone is tired/overwhelmed but no, it's anxiety/burnout/some fancier mental health term to describe it. I hate how people throw around clinical mental health stuff without really understanding it.