Pop psychology myths about mental disorders were largely invented online to dehumanize patients
AndyMasley · x · 2026-10-27
AndyMasley argues that much of the "common wisdom" about mental disorders was invented online by teenagers over the past decade, often with the goal of maximally dehumanizing people with those disorders. He finds the vampire-like framing of people with mental illness depressing, especially for those who know and care about people who struggle with them. In a follow-up he adds that narcissism seems genuinely debilitating — nobody wakes up and chooses that brain wiring — and that society can build safeguards without this kind of rhetoric.
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