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faking mental illness

DRAMA MAMA

BENOFTHEWEEK

Fiction, News, Drama, Entertainment News, Comedy

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Do you know anyone who uses mental illness like it's a quirky trend? Do you have a friend that pretends to have a disorder just for attention? This week, Ben delves into the Gen Z urge to make light of mental illness online from making a caricature out of ADHD to faking Tourettes. Ben gets to the bottom of why exaggerating mental illness online has become so popular. Get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/dramamama Tweet with the #DramaMamaPodcast to be featured on an episode! Watch the podcast on YouTube: https://bit.ly/DramaMamaYouTube Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: https://bit.ly/DramaMamaBENOFTHEWEEK If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be helpful! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: https://bit.ly/DramaMamaBENOFTHEWEEK Follow Ben on YouTube Follow Ben on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

We're getting right into it. We're getting right into it. We have no time.

0:11.0

We have no time for, hey, I'm gonna walk it back with a back.

0:16.0

No, we're getting right into the topic today because I am, I've been, oh, I've been, I've been

0:21.2

waiting to talk about this one.

0:23.2

Faking mental illnesses. Romanticizing mental illnesses. Using mental illnesses as a trend.

0:35.0

Today, I was prompted to do this. I got the idea to make this the topic for today to talk

0:47.2

about because I have seen some TikToks over the past few months that have actually made my brain

0:54.7

like liquefy and leak out of my ears. I don't know if you've seen this. A few of them got pretty big

1:04.2

on TikTok. Bloop a little bit. The caption will say something stupid like when my ADHD kicks in

1:13.2

and it'll be them doing like a TikTok dance and they're like halfway through and then they kind

1:18.2

of look distracted all of a sudden. Which you know, getting distracted is a typical thing that

1:26.0

happens with ADHD. However, I'm one of the most gullible people ever. I believe pretty much anything

1:33.7

I could watch the Kardashians and be like, whoa, this was like a documentary. This was so real.

1:39.1

This was so raw. But I would see these videos and be like, oh my god, what is this? It is the most

1:45.9

fake, most bastardized caricature of someone with ADHD and how someone with ADHD behaves that is put

1:53.5

on in these videos. So they'll be dancing and then they'll kind of look off to the side and make a

1:58.1

face and be like, huh? And start like grabbing at the sky and like doing all these. It's, I mean,

2:05.7

it's crazy. It's really insane. It's and all the comments are like, you, what are you doing?

2:13.5

One, this is not how people with ADHD actually act. Two, what? Three, like, what? And of course,

2:24.6

they delete the video. Like all three times I've seen this. They deleted the video because they realized

2:29.1

like literally what are you, what are you doing? And I wanted to quickly talk about first,

2:36.0

first let's start with this kind of like ADHD trend. So I don't know what ADHD classifies as attention

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