(overseas compared to what? /genq)

i'd say much of the mental illness discourse stems from the fact that these online spaces are most often filled with 14-16 year old kids whose personalities and brains are rapidly developing which can be rather jarring to experience. added on top of this, they're part of a generation who's had access to unlimited information since birth by means of the internet, which makes it painfully easy to misdiagnose yourself with a mental illness.

i was a victim of this pitfall too ~4 years ago, so i can say with certainty that although there's undeniably a larger concentration of mentally ill people around here, a lot of them are just developing teenagers who haven't gotten differential diagnosis.

(in particular i misdiagnosed myself with adhd, which turned out to be a massive dead-end, and only through attending therapy with professionals was i able to be diagnosed with ocd, the actual root of my problems. if i hadn't known i don't have adhd, i might have had a very very different outlook on life.)