Remove tags involving mental illness
By adding tags involving mental illness Twitch is promoting self diagnosis and the glorification of mental illness. As a medically diagnosed schizophrenic I and others like me have suffered and continue to suffer tremendously from mental illness. By making tags such as schizophrenia available to Twitch streamers you not only open the opportunity for using a debilitating illness as a marketing tool but also encourage individuals to either pretend to be mentally ill, self diagnose themselves as mentally ill, or glorify mental illness in order to benefit from these tags. All of these are tremendously damaging to the mentally ill community. I imagine Twitch would never add a tag such as "high risk of suicide" or "at high risk of homelessness" which is what these tags are effectively advertising.
Please don't let streamers exploit mental illness for monetary gain.
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BlueEyesWhiteBoomer commented
hard agree on this. Many people say its for feeling less isolated but honestly I think it just promotes self-diagnosis which isn't healthy by any standard....