As someone who most likely does has social anxiety (It's never been confirmed by a professional, but I get really nervous around new people and will avoid meeting new people at any cost) it irritates the shit out of me. Literally. I just crapped my pants.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Right? It makes people like you who actually suffer from them less credible because people will think you are saying it for attention when you're not. On a different note why would someone make it so commonly known that they have bad anxiety attacks? It's an attention thing I suppose. How fucking sad.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Wait, how is it a trend? And what's bad about someone wanting to talk openly about their disorder?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Using the statistics from my school, about half the people say they have paranoia/social anxiety/sleep paralysis and all that stuff basically every night. It's hard to beleive that it's not an attention thing, mostly because these are said on social networking sites.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

See, this is why we can't have nice things. People like you destroy them. >:l

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I knew that for a while (and still now, actually) claiming to have depression or OCD was the "trend", but this is new to me.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

But... It's not a trend.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

According to this post, it is.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

But you can't just call something a trend if it isn't, saying it in the post doesn't make it true.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Fine whatever you say

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I mean if they were, to my knowledge, trends, I would agree.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It's mostly in the 14-16/17 age group, though. I don't know how old you are but if you're older that might explain why you disagree.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Not at my school

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I'm 15, so right around there. It's probably just something that is the case where you live, but not where I live.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Your schools seriously doesn't have kid running around about how they're so OCD and ADD and social anxiety just cuz they like to be organized, couldn't pay attention for half a second, or got nervous talking to their crush or some such stupid shit? Lucky bastards.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Well OCD and ADD, but not panic attacks and social anxiety as this post references.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Its just a trend because everyone wants attention or wants to be unique or different in some way. Which is sad because then people don't find the real things that set them apart.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

As somebody that actually has a degree of actual anxiety, I too find it intolerably obnoxious and rude. I don't flaunt it because it's real and personal and freaking scary. Other people shouldn't be able to run around saying they know about it unless they do.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

If there are people who actually pretend to have that because it's "trendy", I want to fucking hit them. I've suffered from panic attacks and anxiety for years and have spent nights sobbing and terrified, wondering why the hell it's happening to me and what I did to deserve it. The LAST thing you ever want to do is talk about it, because it's so humiliating and awful to go through. If it's bad enough, it's a living hell because your body's nervous system has gone to shit and you can't do anything about it.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I never tell anyone about my problems, because they assume I'm trying to be unique. But I actually have depression, insomnia, and ADD. And my depression causes a LOT of panic attacks, (especially when I miss my pill). Once I fainted at school and a guy helped me up, and I saw a girl I know who has a crush on him roll her eyes and stare me down. Then I heard that she thinks "I did it just for attention, like my depression." That girl hates me.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It is so incredibly annoying. It's like they want someone to comfort them like a John Green novel, but they don't realize that it is nothing like that. If kids think it is that cool to be anxious all the time, they can take my problems.

by Anonymous 10 years ago