It’s good that people are able to talk openly about their mental health status. As much as it can easily be fetishised within certain Internet cultures, that is still preferable to when there was such a crippling stigma attached to it that no one talked about it, no one treated it seriously, and all we did was suffer in silence. I myself have been quite open (perhaps a little too open) about my own conditions and neuroses, which I mainly discuss on here to try and explain my own perspective when interpreting a given film.
But there’s something about that level of openness that can also be a serious problem, namely the effect it can on those listening in. Same with just about any other medical condition, if you spend too long reading about it, and start seeing connections to your own behaviours, it can make you worse. It can either exacerbate your own conditions, or even instil a psychosomatic effect where you convince yourself that that’s what’s happening, regardless of any evidence to the contrary. It’s one of the reasons why Googling medical symptoms is rarely (if ever) a good idea, and it’s the main reason why this film in particular taps into something unnervingly real.
