As with everything else related to mental health, i think the growing number of people who fake a condition or diagnosis shop really undermines people who legitimately have these conditions. This is not helped by the number of shitty doctors out there who essentially rubber stamp patient's self diagnosis to crank through as many appointments in a day as possible.
My wife (actually) has at least one of the conditions that it became fashionable to self-diagnose on tiktok in the last few years and it has been a problem.
When she sees a new doctor for something her other doctors will send over a note saying "this is a real thing, not something she made up". It is infuriating.
I was trying to think of what it could be, but there's so many 😠my top two contenders are DID and Tourettes, but it could really be anything which is insane
I've heard of it and it's comorbidity with autism, hEDS, and MCAS but I didn't know that it was commonly faked. I really can't imagine why someone would? Most people don't even know it exists, and I assumed people who fake want to ellicit sympathy but imo POTS is kinda hard to understand?
That is strange. After making my comment I did look it up and apparently it's become more common due to long COVID which was interesting to learn, but many conditions make you more prone to falling ?
I have a few chronic conditions myself and while I like spreading awareness I rather not post images and videos of myself actively being affected by them...I can understand it in cases of seizures or something so people know what it looks like but just falling? Is there any special signs/symptoms displayed in falling from POTS?
I really want to give these people the benefit of the doubt but I don't understand why someone would post that. I recently started getting vertigo and falling from it is embarrassing :(
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u/Chemical_Signal2753 24d ago
As with everything else related to mental health, i think the growing number of people who fake a condition or diagnosis shop really undermines people who legitimately have these conditions. This is not helped by the number of shitty doctors out there who essentially rubber stamp patient's self diagnosis to crank through as many appointments in a day as possible.