I think the mental help culture IE making an identity out of your mental illness is a self defense mechanism by mostly white women that manufactures a sense of victimhood. Two of the sacred virtues of the west are victimhood and striking down the opressor, which under critical theory and critical race theory (which govern western thinking) is whoever is fortunate in society and of the same race as those who are the most dominant in society aka white people. Women are naturally far more obsessed with their social standing than men are, so in the eyes of the critical race theory subscribed white woman, the idea that THEY are in the oppressing class is unbearable. The (albeit insufficient) remedy to this is either trying to make up for their whiteness by attacking the oppressor on behalf of the "downtrodden" OR making themselves victims such as with feminism or mental health.