in an age simultaneously preoccupied with identity and openly contemptuous of its healthiest, most natural expressions, a psychological condition has become, for many, an irresistible vehicle for self-definition. This is exhibited most flagrantly in the delusions of transgenderism as well as a litany of even more dubious gender inventions, although one need only scroll through mental health TikTok or “neurodivergent” subreddits to see how labels such as autism, ADHD, anxiety, and borderline personality disorder have become, for significant swathes of millennials and Gen Z, the crowning markers of selfhood