Therapyspeak overuse is annoying and we take great pains to avoid it in our writing but some of what you guys discuss as such i fear is just normie tier awareness of mental health
people generally have passing concepts of most “major” mental illnesses and miscellaneous related concepts (panic attack, prozac, adderall etc) now are they usually good concepts? no. but especially with depression and anxiety its like probably they should know, we’re like ten years into Instagram Infographic About How Depression Is Not What You Think! world
the “they should absolutely know” doesnt even apply to anythign more complicated than unipolar depression, generalized anxiety, or the really obvious reasons to have ptsd (knife attack or some shit) but its like They would know the words. THey wou.ld.