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No, I never saw that sub when I was over there, but I'd wager my comment would apply equally well to anything posted there. These kids today with their words for problems we ignored.
ARFID is a very real phenomenon that is staggeringly common, and yet we have very little information on the causes or fixes for it. Treating it like the kid is just being "picky" leads to food avoidance, binge eating, obesity, and eating disorders. "Just stop being picky" didn't work, and was a criminal neglect of duty of care among parents and doctors.
Look - I've been diagnosed with BPD but the people on that sub claim to have DID and be a "system" with over 1000 personalities. Those personalities, funnily enough, are anime characters fro the latest animes they watched.
You really think they're real?
I don't know anything about that. I know there are people who pretend to have disorders, in fact it's a disorder itself: Munchausen syndrome. But just because people fake an illness does not mean that the illness doesn't exist, or that nobody has it.
I'm sure DID does exist. However, I think people with a genuine diagnosis don't waste time taking video of themselves slipping into an alter for the camera.
Funny how I've never seen videos of schizophrenics losing their shit? Maybe cos mental illness isn't a fucking fashion statement you pick yourself and make quirky videos about.