'A little bit OCD': the downside of mental health awareness | Dean Burnett

People claiming they have serious conditions when they don't just exacerbates negative stereotypes

It's mental health awareness week. So that's good. Well, mostly. There are downsides to increased awareness of mental health, it turns out.

You ever met someone who is needlessly cold or even outright rude to those who deign to engage with them? I used to work with someone like that, and eventually one of his superiors had to call him out on it. I was within earshot, and happened to hear his defence, which was something like "It's just the way I am. I think I'm on the spectrum."