TikTok videos leave teens thinking they have rare mental disorders (2021)
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#2Reminds me of "WebMD caused a spike in cancer" stories; anyone remember those?
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#5Tik Tok is the reason I've been told several times I have ADHD. Pretty sure I don't! This phenomenon is so infuriating. The only half-convincing defense I've heard of it is that it could, maybe, theoretically, disseminate information about illnesses to people who don't have the money to see a professional, but the other effects are so much worse it doesn't seem worth it.
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#6I wonder if kids would still self diagnose after having witnessed first hand what those illnesses are like and what they do to someone you love.
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#7Tik Tok is the reason I've been told several times I have ADHD. Pretty sure I don't! This phenomenon is so infuriating. The only half-convincing defense I've heard of it is that it could, maybe, theoretically, disseminate information about illnesses to people who don't have the money to see a professional, but the other effects are so much worse it doesn't seem worth it.
Tiktok and pop-culture generally make me very skeptical on "ADHD", the so-called "spectrum" and "neurodivergence" generally.
I'm not saying these things don't exist, but much of it seems very difficult to falsify -- which needs to be the gold standard of determining these sort of things; e.g. "By what process can someone reasonably determine that they are NOT neurodivergent?"
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#8This reminds me of every other student while taking Abnormal Psychology in college.
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#9Related: medical students' disease!
Re: TikTok videos leave teens thinking they have rare mental disorders (2021)
#10Reminds me of "WebMD caused a spike in cancer" stories; anyone remember those?
And video games cause violence, and DnD leads to Satanism, and TV rots brains, and movies lead to illiteracy, and books lead to dangerous thought.