In a framework where one's outcomes and virtue are determined by one's position in the oppressor/oppressed hierarchy — to the oppressor, success; to the oppressed, virtue — being functional, stable and happy are outright suspicious and thus very rarely signaled even when enjoyed https://twitter.com/SarahTheHaider/status/1385327347751063554

If your social circles play this game and you have visible success in status, career or wealth, you can compensate by publicly making yourself a hot mess, especially if you explictly link it to some socially or politically salient crisis

The incentives here are driving our young elites to present themselves in a state of constant breakdown, or near to it. It's amazing to watch

I don't think they're faking it, either. I think they'd genuinely be happier and more resilient if that didn't have a substantial social cost