Hello, everyone. I'm Charlie and welcome to authentic mental health
In today's video, you will learn about the nine signs that your mental illness is made up for attention
The nine signs that I'm going to tell you are not my opinions or my views
They are the opinions and the views of a website which I will leave in the description box down below
So you can read it for yourselves
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Reach a wider audience and hopefully help many more people together so let's get straight in to the nine
Signs that your mental illness is made up
for
attention
Hmm this should be interesting
Number one you use it to be horrible to other people
so if you don't call someone back if
you ignore them if you don't show up to your friend's birthday party if you don't go out with your friend if you take your
Anger and stress out on other people
But you blame it on your anxiety or depression or your mental illness
this is the first sign you are making it up for
Attention by the way at the end of this video when I've read out the nine
I will tell you my thoughts on every single one, so if you
Want to hear my thoughts
Stay to the end of the video and believe me it will be worth it because I have quite a few things to say
Number Two you are constantly sharing it on social
Media so if you constantly hashtag anxiety or hashtag
Depression or Hashtag mental illness that means you're making it up
For attention number three you list it in your bios, so if you list it in your bios
Or as an accomplishment or as your hobby you are making it up for attention number four?
Your definitions of the illnesses change
Every day if one day your depression means you can't get out of bed, but then it changes the next day, to
You can't pay the bills to the next day, You can't go to the movies that means
you've made it up for attention number five
When it's convenient for you your illness
Takes a step back meaning if you really want to do something you'll do it and you forget about
your illness or how you're feeling or your anxiety or your depression or if you want to impress someone or
Something like that you completely forget about your mental illness if you do that
it's a sign you're making your mental illness up for
attention six you think it's a controversial thing to talk about basically if you think you're brave or
honest or happy to talk about your mental illness online or be open and
Honest about it then this is a sign
you are making it up for
attention
okay sounds
Look, I don't know where I get in half these things from but anyway on to the next one sign seven you don't accept it
might be your fault you might have had loads of
Ex-girlfriends boyfriend's whatever you never blame yourself. It's always them
It's never you this might be a sign you're making your mental illness up for attention sign
Eight you constantly post things online
So people will direct message you or text you or ask you if everything is okay?
Or what's wrong? Basically? I don't need to tell you what that is
It's self-explanatory if you post something like I had a bad day or something like this
This is a sign you made your mental illness up for attention
shame on you shame on you and the last sign number nine is
You're not really trying to get better
So this website says you basically just want to talk about it get attention, and you don't want to get better now
I've gone through the nine signs and I'm going to tell you now exactly what I think about this website and
about these nine signs and
Address other people who agree with these signs what a load of crap, I've never read
so much crap in
All my life Susie made me so angry
To read this article let alone make this video, but I felt I had to make this video
Because people are going to read this and think oh yeah, just because that person
Hashtags anxiety they're making it up.. go on my Instagram Twitter or Facebook every single post that I make is
Hashtag anxiety because I make videos about anxiety and depression or any other mental illnesses so because I hashtag
Anxiety Depression mental illness that means I'm faking it.
*dramatic gasp*
Can't believe it. It's just hit me
I must be faking my mental illness because this website says just cuz I hashtag something
They're right, you know? I'm faking it
*extra dramatic gasp*
Seriously when you read things like this or when you watch videos like this pay no attention to them
people who make content like that have clearly never
Suffered they don't know anybody who suffered and they don't
Understand what it is like to suffer from a mental illness
Everybody who suffers is
Completely different so how I suffer would be different to how you suffer there might be similarities
but we're not exactly the same are we so you might handle it differently to how I handle it, but just because I handle it
Differently to how you handle it, doesn't mean the way I handle it is right or the way you handle it is right, and
It doesn't mean the way
I handle it means it's fake and I'm lying and I'm making it up for attention
nAnd it's the same for you pretty much on this list
I I do most of these signs it means I'm making it up for attention now
I'm not sure if this website has done this for a "joke"
Or its a-- you know, a joke or one of these websites that thinks they're funny, but
Looking at the other content that this website
Makes
I think they are being serious about this list I'd love to know your thoughts in the comment section down below
what you think about these signs whether you agree with them or whether you disagree with them, or whether you agree with me and
think they're talking a load of crap and everybody's different and just cuz I do something differently to you doesn't mean
I'm making it up for attention or you are everybody handles things differently
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