re: The most popular medical conditions that too many people believe they have

I have always found the medicine commercials to be weird. Do people actually walk into their doctor and say I saw this medicine on TV, I have this disease, I need it.

most people don't even use "OCD" right

OCD = people who have to turn stuff/on off 50 times in a row or like repeat the same word 7 times or they'll die

OCPD = "anal retentive" that has to have everything in order. mark somers had OCPD

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Do people actually walk into their doctor and say I saw this medicine on TV, I have this disease, I need it.

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If they didn't, you wouldn't see those commercials.

ADD/ADHD is a personality trait not a disease, we probably kill so many energetic creative thinkers by putting them on drugs

8. Worrying about other people's problems

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ADD/ADHD is a personality trait not a disease, we probably kill so many energetic creative thinkers by putting them on drugs

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Agreed 100%

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. Worrying about other people's problems

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Got a pill popper here!

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I love the people even here on TD.com that say "I can't function unless things are clean because I am so OCD" No. You're just not a slob. Congrats! There is a lot more to being OCD than not liking being surrounded by filth and/or liking things organized.

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Correct. As a kid (age about 8-15ish) I was diagnosed by a psychiatrist (or psychologist, I forget which since they can both prescribe medication here) with legitimate OCD. "Oh I have to have a clean room I'm soooo OCD". Wrong. I HAD TO do certain things like touch a doorknob multiple times, walk a certain way up stairs, go in and out of a doorway weird ways, etc. or I felt an overwhelming sense of doom or like something was going to get me (as strange as that sounds). I slowly grew out of it as I got older.

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Migraine. Everytime someone talks about a headache on Facebook it's a migraine. Doesn't a migraine make you very sensitive to light? I doubt if someone had a migraine they would want to be on their phone or computer from what I've heard.

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Correct. If your headache only requires 2 ibuprofen to feel fine you're bitching about nothing. Motorcycle accident had me taking prescription migraine medication for about a year straight to prevent daily migraines. When one would hit I was basically reduced to lying in bed with the sheets over my head in pitch black to try to cure the nausea and light sensitivity. Again, years later they stopped coming and I was able to get off medication from the Neurologist.

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'll add to your list: autism

any child with slight developmental issues in an area or an awkward social side early on gets labeled as something in the spectrum these days

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Very true. Like most of the other things on the list, the disease exists (except fibromyalgia), but is way overblown and overdiagnosed.

I almost have no doubt my brother would've been diagnosed on the spectrum as a child. He was extremely shy, refused to talk to even his teachers until he grew out of it around 4th or 5th grade. Hell, maybe I would've been diagnosed too. I often did things like refusing to get on the bus if it was a different driver, getting extremely frustrated and upset if something I was working on wasn't perfect- but I too, grew out of this by the time middle school and high school rolled around.