Yes totally agree, there is a HUGE difference between having some hard times and some bad mental health and Mental Illness. Just because you go through a bad period does not mean you have a mental illness, its very annoying.This just boils my blood. At the moment it seems to be the norm (dare i say fashionable) for people to claim depression and anxiety simply to create content and it's absolutely despicable. There are others making money from mental health that to my mind is scummy behaviour. It's dangerous dangerous territory that these self appointed mental health "experts" are muscling into just to make a quick buck from people, some of whom are at their lowest.
Sorry, rant over - it's just my bug bear at the moment - every day a new person in the public eye who has been battling depression, it's just too much.