This to me is pretty much anyone with a social media account...

Us as laypeople read an article like this and immediately begin to assess who we know that fits the mold, when we aren't properly trained in human psychology. Having an ego or thick skin is essential to survival in today's world, Heck The Rock has an entire TV show dedicated to stories of his childhood... Yet somehow psychology now wants to convince us that the spectrum for chaos goes from The Rock, To Donald Trump, To your Dad... It not helpful at all to me, and it seems like it only drives polarization rather than problem resolution. I also don't believe that humans stay fixed in one phase, like narcissism or depression, which makes treatment sometimes a really harmful, and often an ineffective but torturous thing to people that receive the classification and treatment.

I respect the fields of psychology and psychiatry, but it seems to me like since the pandemic, they have attracted some highly opportunistic individuals that make generalized characterizations of personalities that truly don't help with problem resolution, but they serve to drive sales of pharmaceuticals and services.

This article advertises "Better Help", a company that totally inundated social media during covid lockdowns. That same company (Better Help) ran TV commercials around that time to, and became popular out of nowhere. I assume they made a lot of money off of mental health marketing because even my family members and friends began to tell me about the company, how telehealth services for mental health did not work well for them, and how the company quickly billed them for undelivered services.

If you look up the definition for "BiPolar" it literally looks to me like it includes absolutely everyone I know --

Symptoms - Bipolar disorder

feeling sad, hopeless or irritable most of the time.
lacking energy.
difficulty concentrating and remembering things.
loss of interest in everyday activities.
feelings of emptiness or worthlessness.
feelings of guilt and despair.
feeling pessimistic about everything.
self-doubt.

SOURCE: https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/bipolar-disorder...

That is any of us (conveniently) throughout our lives... Including some highly functional and responsibly motivated people. We go through peaks and valleys in life, If all modern psychiatry does is seek to drive medication and counselling profit and to generalize conditions across very different people to gaslight and create paranoia for profit, it's a highly problematic and costly threat towards our future.

Right now, in many states, individuals can file mental health petitions against friends and family members that get them involuntarily detained, even when they haven't committed any crimes, have no history of drug abuse, and have not shown any violent behavior. It's based on generalized conditions that the industry issues like this, and like the one for bipolar... It can and is being weaponized against many people, and it also drives a vast amount of unexpected medical billing for affected individuals that didn't even consent to being detained for the evaluations.

My advice is to be very wary of psychology for profit, and advice from companies that drive it.