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Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels

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540 points drankl | 2 comments | 06 Jul 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.494s | source
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mouse_ ◴[06 Jul 25 23:09 UTC] No.44484975[source]▶
> Now they are being taught that their normal personality is a disorder. According to a 2024 survey, 72% of Gen Z girls said that “mental health challenges are an important part of my identity.” Only 27% of Boomer men said the same.

Could this be because modern women have far more social expectations placed on them than boomer men did, and are thus struggling generally speaking more than boomer men had to?

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1. colechristensen ◴[07 Jul 25 00:22 UTC] No.44485429[source]▶
>Could this be because modern women have far more social expectations placed on them than boomer men did, and are thus struggling generally speaking more than boomer men had to?

No. "Mental health" concepts have just become prominent in the mythos of young women. Everybody has their struggles and competing over who has the most is not a productive area of discussion. Contemporary young women really like talking about mental health and have their own culturally shared version of psychology diagnosis and treatment. It's not necessarily any better or worse than any previous as psychology has always had a tough time with rigor.

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2. steve_taylor ◴[07 Jul 25 08:36 UTC] No.44488044[source]▶
It's definitely a fashion. I sympathise with those who legitimately have these conditions and are dismissed as attention-seeking.