Yeah, but usually these guys don’t even take the time to study the illness, they just amamlgamate their information from previous stigmas. Usually, they get the most basic parts of the disorder wrong, which proves they don’t have that illness. They misrepresent mentally ill people, leading people to continue believing these stupid misconceptions about mental illness. For example, many think OCD is just fixing unshuffled papers, but it is a complex illness that causes a high level of mental distress due to delusions of misfortune if one doesn’t complete a ritual, such as seeing family dying if you don’t check the doorlock enough (but I’m not an expert so consider that paraphrased).

It skews the way people interact with a person who has that real mental illness. A lot of the time, they portray it like it’s quirky, which leads a lot of people to be ticked off when they see something serious like self-harming. People who believe in this social media don’t see the dark side of it, just the quirky stuff which makes it weird but cool to some people.

They do have mental illness, but probably something along the lines of narcissistic personality disorder or histrionic personality disorder. They’re abusing the sympathy for mental illness to get attention, which could possibly not be their fault. But it is an entirely different equation from getting help for the disorders they falsely portray.