i have multiple parasocial relationships
Parasocial relationships seem to be extremely common these days. There are entire industries (e-celebs/streamers, onlyfans) that are predicated on this phenomenon. This is what happens when you get rid of third spaces, and have an entire generation that has been terminally online from a young age, and are hyper-introverted, isolated, and atomized.
That brings me to another point. I think a lot of what appear to be symptoms of mental disorders are just the result of societal issues. Think about it, there's been a huge influx in people being diagnosed with just about every mental illness/disorder that exists. Way more people are on anti-depressants, anti-psychotics and other psych meds than just a few decades ago. How could mental illnesses increase in the general population that much that fast?
Do you really have depression...or is your mood a logical response to working a minimum wage job and living paycheck to paycheck?
Do you really have autism...or are you just a run of the mill terminally online zoomer that likes anime and video games?
Do you really have anxiety... or is your hypervigilance a rational reaction to living in a low trust society where so many people are looking to scam, steal from or otherwise take advantage of everyone they possibly can?
Do you really have paranoia.... or is your lack of trust in the general public and the institutions a logical response to constant lies, gaslighting, manipulation and misinformation?
Do you really have ADD... or is your lack of attention span the result of growing up terminally online, being constantly bombarded with (mis)information and living in the era of instant gratification?
There's also a huge financial incentive at play. Most of the "experts" involved in writing the DSM have financial ties to big pharma. You'd be naive to believe they weren't financially incentivized to write criteria that casts as wide of a net as they can get away with. Have 100 random normies see a psychologist for a year and I guarantee you at least half would get diagnosed with
something. This is why I'm skeptical of even "diagnosed" mental illnesses.
I'm not saying none of these mental illnesses exist, I'm just saying a lot of what appear to be symptoms of a mental illness are actually downstream from societal issues.
Most of you who have mental illnesses/disorders (or at least
think you do) would have ended up perfectly normal if you were good looking or even just "decent" looking and lived in a pre-internet society. Most of you are not Chris Chan.