Or how a tonne of kids (including my friends as I was a kid too) used to diagnose everyone and ourselves with “depression” back in the forums and MySpace days. Sure some of us ended up with real diagnoses, like myself (after some pretty severe impact from it), but a non zero amount of it seemed to be about being trendy and fitting in with the group and zeitgeist. This appears similar. Humans like pattern matching, and young people have enough knowledge about mental health topics to be “dangerous” in this case.

This is a long winded way of me saying I agree, and this doesn’t seem like a particularly new phenomenon.