Exactly. While I'm sure you do have a point with mental health terms being overused by people who don't actually have them, sometimes people are crying out for help but not being believed because they don't appear to have such and such an illness.

For example, I once told a registrar that I had been feeling very depressed again, her reply, " you don't look depressed" I mean how exactly does one look depressed anyway?

Another example, no one buy my therapist ever believed I had eating issues, simply because I wasn't "thin enough" so I didn't deserve help with the fact that I was starving myself constantly, because it didn't "look" like I was?

No one, outside my parents, even knows I have schizophrenia, and no one would ever guess, because as one psych said, I have a mild form and respond well to treatment. The one time I ever told someone, their reply was "no you don't" so yeah, I haven't told anyone since. What would be the point?

So yeah, I appreciate what you're saying, but things aren't always as rosy as they appear to be. I suffered with depression for years before anyone ever knew, when I told my mam she just laughed. The rest of my family only found out because I ended up in hospital, even while in there an ot said I put in this act of entertaining my visitors so they would think I was fine.

Some people find it easy to talk abut this kind of stuff, but some of us don't, especially when we try to and are just brushed off or made out as attention seeking.