09/11/2026
Ohhhh this is a good one (and a nice jab at social media. You’re welcome). Ever wonder why you wake up tired and instead of blaming the crap way you slept, you now blame your cortisol level? Or feel like you’re a hyperactive human and immediately self-diagnose with ADHD? Having anxiety or stress over work, school, life? Definitely has to be an anxiety disorder. Now please don’t misunderstand; these diagnoses are real and people do suffer from them but taking normal human experiences and turning them into a health problem is not only ridiculous but also dangerous. A very strong amount of symptoms can be solved with common sense: grief after losing a loved one is NOT clinical depression. We as a society are just so quick to medicalize or use overpathologizing to label an everyday human occurrence. Again, please don’t misunderstand-if you’re experiencing hardcore issues, never hesitate to reach out to your healthcare provider. Remember those guys? The ones who went to school for 200 years so they could accurately diagnose and treat you (not AI or Google or social media). There’s a very good chance you’re putting an unnecessary medical label on yourself and/or receiving unnecessary treatments and that can be scarier than the initial problem itself. Harsh reality of the day: you’re not that special.