I know a couple whose son has ADHD, and they use this as an excuse for everything. They never bothered teaching him the difference between right and wrong. He has no manners, is a bully and is constantly violent towards others, and his parents blame other children and criticise them for never wanting to play with him or invite him to parties. They have raised an a$$hole and blame it on his condition, when it is a simple case of bad parenting.

I remember when I was residing in a mental health care facility, they were telling my Mam & Dad their findings and my Mammy, with all the love and concern equal to that of all the mothers in the world combined, asked the doc 'Are you sure he's not just an arsehole?'

My parents still say that I had an attitude issue as a teenager and I was 'antisocial' and 'self-centered' for locking myself in a room and crying for hours every day. They still can't seem to connect it to our family history of depression and bipolar on both sides, even knowing about the therapy, diagnoses and medication I eventually got. At least parents and teenagers these days have the tools to talk about mental illness. I suffered a lot because of the stigma.

This 1 million times this. I hate people saying they have PTSD about everything. I have PTSD about Target because the cashier was mean to me etc. As someone who was actually diagnosed with PTSD 25 years ago & thought that can't be true only soldiers have it. It is no joke & affects your life so stop it!

Some people are just a******s, some people are severely affected by mental illness. The best course of action is to be compassionate. You never truly know what someone else is going through.

I've noticed that people under 20 introduce themselves with their mental illnesses and trauma now. I interview for hiring and just...wow. One guy told me he has adhd and is bipolar then said he is homeless and has had 8 jobs in last month. That does not get you hired. If you need to tell me, say hi I have adhd and tell me how you compensate for it to work, not use as excuse. I'm adhd and schizophrenic but would never use these as an excuse or introduction. Really just floored by the oversharing now and how people use it as a badge of honor and excuse

I say this all the time. So many entitled people use it as a permission slip to act horribly.

Very true...you can't fix stupid

THANK YOU! I get so sick of that s**t!

A truth worth sharing!

Most of the time, I feel that I'm using depression as an excuse not to do anything. But even when I try, I'm not able to do. I've been in very bad state, and now my life has improved much because of the medicines, but I'm not sure if my fatigue and apathy is laziness or depression

I mean, yes, we've come a long way from my grade school days when rowdy kids just got turned into Ritalin zombies, or slower learners got shoved into "special" classes to learn basically nothing. But knowing your child has an issue doesn't mean you just use it as an excuse for poor behavior.

i hate when people use mental illnesses as blanket excuse to do anything and face no consequences. Like dude, PTSD does not mean you get to act like a btch to people around you. It makes the actual illnesses sound like a joke.

A great example of why the internet isn't such a great thing. Self diagnosis of s****y behavior and blaming it on one of a thousand mental illness titles. Ok I'll join in. I avoid parties and gatherings of people I don't know well because I have zero interest in making small talk with people that neither of us are interested in seeing again. Oh wait.....I have "social anxiety-please respect that".....

I have depression, anxiety, and a whole slew of other s**t going on with me. I was bullied, molested, abused mentally and emotionally all my life, and I didn't really start my career until just a month ago. Know who I blame? My parents. Know who I get mad at? No one. Not a single person I know now or meet now has anything to do with why I'm socially inept and kinda miserable. I don't take my feelings out on anyone who didn't start the feelings in the first place. Just wish I got the same. But the point I'm making is that it doesn't matter what you have. If you're an a*****e, you're an a*****e. I can almost guarantee you know a psychopath and don't even know. It's mostly all in nurture, not nature.

As a boomer myself, I can safely say that my parents were rubbish at parenting, we never went without physical things but there was no affection, no understanding of what we as kids suffered etc etc. It's always the same each successive generation thinks the younger/older ones were c**p

It's funny cuz people act proud that they have a "mental issue", but like in the east, just standing near a psychiatrist's office gives off bad vibes. (Won't be able to get a girl, cant get a jobs, friends start to ghost kind of vibes.).

I don't fully agree with this one. I'm reminded of the phrase, "Hurt people hurt people". I'm not saying everyone has a mental illness, that's obviously not true. I'm saying people who are "just a******s" have had their own pain in the past they never truly dealt with. "Pain that is not transformed is transmitted."

People like this make it very hard for people with mental illness. People who use mental illness as an excuse for anything and refuse to take responsibility for anything, simply have never taken a realistic look at life. It's not about them.

Sometimes a mental illness can make it very tempting to do something. Mental illness rarely completely robs someone of responsibility.

Amen

I seem to have many conditions that are recently being diagnosed. One thing I found, I repeat I have to work hard on being well EVERYDAY. If I slip I have to forgive myself, and try harder tomorrow.

As someone with REAL anxiety, I get triggered by people who do this

I remember when ADHD was fixed with a simple "evil look"

I think this is about confirmation. Social media allows you to get validation quickly and easily.

I don't know about other places, but around here it seems to be Millennials that do it.

Stop making stupid people famous....stop following them or paying attention

I personally find it ugly.

Or a life hack about how you can repurpose a barrel into a chair for NO MONEY! Take a perfectly good new barrel, use tools that every professional handiman has lying around (like a fully stocked workplace with every machine possible) and make an ugly chair with sharp edges, which you'll cover up with tonnes of hot glue....

This is not even legal where I live.

Yeah they are pretty gross.

My oldest granddaughter (17) only ever facetimes me, at first I couldn't understand why, and then realized that is the way she talks to her friends so it's the way that she does it. I actually don't mind.

In the UK there is some kid called Mizzy filming himself breaking into people's homes. How no-one has actually punched the little f****r is astounding. He was arrested

"Gender reveal parties"

n then proceeds to stick out their tongue tryn to be cute

I'm gen z and I still hate Andrew Tate and people like him

Watching someone destroy their body

If camcorders and vhc cassettes were as cheap and readily available as cell phones are now, they would be recording everything too.

And triggers. While I get it and have my own mini-traumas I work through, I recognize my triggers are no one’s responsibility but my own. If you feel you’ll be triggered by what happens in public or life in general, prepare yourself to deal with it. Just stop demanding others inhibit or repress anything about themselves simply because you find it triggering.

"Hey guys, I have an idea. Let's get actors and remake our cartoons. We don't have to think of anything new for a decade."

We already had that in the past, but at least it sounded pretty good. ;) cool-dude-...1e1f2a.jpg

Unfortunately in most cases I've seen, getting a professional diagnosis is a privilege most cannot afford

Yes, pigs have ears, so do wethers (but not some other parts of their anatomy)

Depends on what you are watching. Some of them are discovering the music I discovered when I was a kid and watching their excitement is refreshing these days. The Charismatic Voice for instance is a professional opera singer and she reacts to metal but explains how the vocalists make the sounds. If you look at them as people going on a musical journey, it make more sense. Some have also interviewed bands and they ask more interesting questions that music journalists.

I just really hate tik tok.