I suspect the nurse practitioner heard "trouble with social media" and recited the script she'd been taught. I'd think it was just this one person doing her best to get through the day if this weren't the fourth time in three years that this has happened with different healthcare personnel.

At this point I'm old enough to understand how upsetting this is, but I can imagine how a younger person looking for help and guidance might internalize this "you are your disease" mentality. And that's troubling, because there's definitely a distinction between hyperfixation and just being happy.

Also, like, damn. People having dealt with two years of shitty pandemic work and shitty pandemic education are having trouble now that things are "back to normal." Imagine that. I guess nobody is paying me to be a therapist, but how difficult is it just to tell people that their experiences are normal and valid. Honestly.