What’s more annoying isnt always the usage of the words (anxiety, depression, panic attacks, PTSD) but how media portrays them. Suddenly people who are anxious have “crippling anxiety”, situational depression becomes “clinical depression”, and terms like panic attacks and PTSD are thrown around whenever someone experiences a mild inconvenience or has something bad happen (no Stacy, having one nightmare about a dog that barked at you two days ago isnt PTSD).
It makes it embarrassing for me to say “I’m going to have a panic attack” because some people will associate it with freaking out and being melodramatic, but in reality my brain is messing up it’s signals and I do feel like I’m going to die. When I say that my anxiety has prevented me from working I get “suck it up” because they’ve seen that it’s so easy and goes away because obviously their favorite character got over anxiety in two episodes!
I don’t care at all. Mental health awareness is good, and you never know what’s going on behind the scenes.
“You keep using that word (PTSD). I do not think it means what you think it means.”
The one that truly frustrates me is the condescending misuse of “triggered”. I have PTSD and triggers are real and the effects they have on me are serious but I can’t even talk about that anymore because it’s just an ugly joke to most people. Overall I wish people had more empathy and less judgement about mental illness.
Doesn’t really bother me. To be fair, every single person has some degree of anxiety. It can range from slightly uncomfortable (no treatment needed) to absolutely crippling (get meds, they help)