I almost feel sorry for her. She seemed like she was genuinely struggling and all over the place all last year and it's as though the fact she merely entered the GP surgery after years making excuses has galvanised her and she's feeding off it. That alongside the thrill (or maybe the placebo) of being put on medication. I get that it's confidence boosting to finally confront long standing issues and that it might make a person feel optimistic that there feels like a path forward, but still. Just find it so bizarre that an adult needs to take pictures of their mental health medication to show off to others on social media. These meds aren't difficult to obtain from the GP; more people take them than they ever have and it's a solid % of the population according to recent figures. If anything the fact she's been on the first thing she's tried at a low does for a couple of weeks and is alleging it's turned things around already just speaks to the fact it probably has very little do with it at all, because that experience is virtually unheard of.
The sudden change in behaviour and demeanour feels very contrived too. It's as though she's sat there and decided from the New Year (or whatever day that started in her own mind) she is putting absolutely everything she's got into social media and 'influencing', copying (badly, half the time) everything she thinks she sees other people doing across all platforms, sticking to a much stricter type of schedule, trying to make herself seem and look like a person that actually cares about skincare and makeup and the result reads like she's suddenly practising to be a QVC presenter but releasing that footage to the general public.
I wonder how sustainable it will all be for her and it's crossed my mind that she's maybe been struggling at work so much that she's putting in a renewed big effort with this so she can leave work entirely or reduce her hours at work and that's actually what this is all about. She doesn't strike me as someone that works overly well with others, going into office seems to be traumatic for her at the best of times post-lockdowns and the situation where she applied for that job and didn't get it must have been awkward at best. To go from all that to content galore, actually putting on makeup and visibly switching to more popular and premium things she can link that are currently for sale rather than old stuff that she can't isn't for nothing and I did cringe for her when she let slip she'd emailed current body to 'ask for a discount code'/ AKA see if they had any freebies or affiliate programmes. Next on the list is clearly Charlotte Tilbury, I expect she'll get a load, pretend to hate some of it so she can say she was right and absolutely lorve the rest, then come around to the rest of it a few months later and link it all.
Ultimately I wish her well but it all just looks manic in a different way. As someone who has to wash their hair all the time, and actually does, I think she's going to regret that haircut. The short layers around the front are going to look constantly greasy without regular washing.