Chioma Nwosu-Fakorede is the founder and Executive Director of Olamma Cares Foundation, a mental health advocate, wellness consultant and writer. She uses her lived experience and advocacy work to encourage informed conversations about mental health, reduce stigma and help people access appropriate support.
Mental health conversations on TikTok, Twitter and other social media platforms have turned clinical terms into everyday slang. Is this a concern?
It is a concern because we are sometimes trivialising or turning mental health into social media slang. I hear people having mood swings and saying, “Oh, you’re bipolar,” or calling someone a “neat freak” and saying they have OCD. Sometimes, this waters down the seriousness of these conditions.
However, social media also has positives. Stories that were not openly shared before are now being discussed, and people are becoming more informed.
On my platform, I write a lot, and I have used my lived experience
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