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"a) I am officially diagnosed dont know why you assumed I wasnt"
Do you need to be officially diagnosed? You've made it very clear you have the power of Google and YouTube on your side.
"b) not everyone has equal access to healthcare and might have no choice other than to self-diagnose and medicate any range of illnesses"
If you could diagnose yourself you wouldn't need any of those things.
"c) there are systemic issues like e.g. racism, sexism (sexism is double the issue in mental health than it is in physical) paired with the superiority complex of some doctors constantly leads to psychiatrists dismissing and downplaying their struggles and not diagnosing or writing prescriptions a patient needs."
Oh, so now I see. You don't even need doctors because they're racist or something because they didn't give you the diagnosis Google said you had.
Helps with access to medication
In a perfect world everyone would have access to what they need, until then a lot of people will have to make do with what they got and if its not a licensed doctor then google will have to do.
They did. I am officially diagnosed by a licensed psychiatrist with ADD and I get prescription medication for it. Still don't know why you assume I am not. Yet still there a lot of doctors which are racist, sexist, transphobic and mis- or underdiagnose because of their biases. A white wealthy male doctor might have difficulty relating to a black poor woman and not understand the issue they're facing. On top of systemic racism, for instance it's well documented that, especially in psychiatry, a lot of the research is centered around USian college students, because those are the easiest test subjects to find, which makes the research rather biased.
And there are a lot of people that don't even get to see a doctor due to poor health coverage who have to make do with what they find online.
What an absolute cold-blooded dismissal of other people life-altering struggles.