This seems like an example of taking the giant ocean of people that is Twitter and Tiktok and pretending even 100 crazy people in a population of literally billions represents a "trend" or societal phenomenon.
However, any idea along the lines of "people need help, not acceptance" needs to be very carefully discussed, because in the world I grew up in, you didn't get help or acceptance: you got punishment, you got shame, you even sometimes got violence as "treatment."
A lot of people out there who will latch onto anything telling them they don't need to be accepting of difference.
For example, electroconvulsive therapy in its early days. To quote the Mayo Clinic [1]:
> Much of the stigma attached to ECT is based on early treatments in which high doses of electricity were administered without anesthesia, leading to memory loss, fractured bones and other serious side effects.
[1]: https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/electroconvulsiv...
Ultimately it's yet another "think of the children!" variant.
That's mostly still the world we live in, the main difference is that you can login to tumblr and find out you're not alone.
Which are basically Twitter, Tiktok, and various subreddits which repost those things to criticise them.
But it's not just the younger generation, you can go back a ways. I'm no youngster either.
My old uncle was a hypochondriac. Mom said he just acted that way to get attention.
One time he called and wanted her to fix him some chicken soup, and I ended up bringing it over to his apartment.
I asked him how he was feeling and it was headaches, tiredness, foggy mindedness, and overall malaise.
Doctor couldn't find a thing this time.
I asked him how long had it been going on now.
"In three weeks it'll be a month."