https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrupulosity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrupulosity <-- Cultural influence of religious faith has always shaped how what-we-wo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrupulosity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrupulosity <-- Cultural influence of religious faith has always shaped how what-we-would-now-definitely-class-as-mental-disorders look, too. Reminds me of the discussions about young women presenting with tics clearly influenced by particular Tourette's influencers. A person would definitely not have had those symptoms in those ways if they weren't seeing that content ("fake" rather than simply innate), but can still be experiencing the root of it all as real compulsions and anxiety... but can then also seek attention w/r/t the whole thing, play up their experiences, etc. It's not actually useful to put "real" and "fake" binary labels on everything, because brains are complicated, society is complicated, and brains in society, well. I am not an expert but have enough, uh, relevant medical histories in my life and my family that I feel pretty confident in the following: trying to draw a bright line between "serious and pathological" and "just get over yourself", whether in physical or mental health, is an exercise based in wanting to bestow or deny validation, not in pragmatic utility or fundamental nature. Debating how that line should be drawn is maybe helpful in terms of navigating US insurance billing, but rarely reflects Deep Essential Truth in the way people hope it will. Staying flexible in your thinking is really useful to actually figuring out how to best treat yourself and others, especially where people tend to consider their loci of control way too far inside or outside themselves.