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TikTok videos leave teens thinking they have rare mental disorders (2021)

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Post by MichaelCollins »

nikolay wrote: post #390

Most people using TitTok already have a mental disorder called "narcissism". Not so long from now, companies like Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok would be banned for the impossible to measure but huge damage made to the society. Facebook is also evil, but for many other types of damages. And it's not like these companies don't know what they actually are causing - they perfect know to conditions they put youngster in…

> Most people using TitTok already have a mental disorder called "narcissism"

I think you have to break apart those 'using' TikTok by anonymously consuming content, and those who are 'using' TikTok by producing content with the aspiration of hitting it big. Narcissism seems connected to the second, but not so much the first.

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Post by SoftTalker »

wincy wrote: post #351
kkielhofner wrote: post #280

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The language has shifted as well. You’re not sad, you’re depressed. You don’t worry, you have anxiety. Depression and anxiety are medical diagnoses. The other are normal emotions everyone can, should, and does experience. If you don’t ever worry or get sad about anything there’s probably something else wrong with you. In terms of diagnoses, the DSM-4 included a “bereavement exclusion” from the depression diagnostic c…

It made us feel so insulted and betrayed that when my wife would cry in the NICU for any reason the nurses would tattle on her and she’d get a call from the pill pushers trying to prescribe her psych meds. It’s like look, my kid has literally been in the NICU for 6 months now (it ended up being 9 months total) and you’re strongly pressuring us to get her a tracheostomy (let’s not use medical euphemism here though, th…

> she’d get a call from the pill pushers trying to prescribe her psych meds

If your only tool is a hammer....

This is part of why I avoid the medical establishment.

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Post by kayodelycaon »

naravara wrote: post #337
jnovek wrote: post #182

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Sure, that’s the other side of that coin I was talking about. :-) Personally, I suspect that people who incorrectly self-diagnose are desperate and grasping at straws. They misdiagnose themselves because proper diagnostics are really hard to get in for. However, I would be willing to bet that people who misdiagnose themselves with DID still have some other underlying mental health condition that they are misunderstan…

I think popular cultural conceptions of what a "diagnosis" is are kind of weird. It seems more like people categorizing themselves with immutable labels rather than accepting that it's just a way to refer to/characterize your subjective experience. I remember talking with one guy who was genuinely sad when his psychiatrist told him she might need to revisit his autism diagnosis and she thinks there might actually be…

I wouldn't dismiss labels so quickly.

Having a label gives you context to understand what is happening. It gives you a path forward with your treatment. It gives you access to documentation, support groups, and a community who are dealing with the same things.

Changing a diagnosis means you likely lose all of these and have to start over.

Then there is medication that can significantly change how your mind works. I likely have long-lasting damage to my nervous system from the anti-psychotic I need to function.

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Post by camdenlock »

a_shovel wrote: post #371
badcppdev wrote: post #334

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Because boys are allowed to play with dolls. And shouldn't think it indicates they are trans or have gender dysphoria. It's not a sign of anything. Please don't misinterpret the comment. *Edit: removed the word diagnosed as wasn't in the original comment.*

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a_shovel wrote: post #371
badcppdev wrote: post #334

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Because boys are allowed to play with dolls. And shouldn't think it indicates they are trans or have gender dysphoria. It's not a sign of anything. Please don't misinterpret the comment. *Edit: removed the word diagnosed as wasn't in the original comment.*

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I've realised I was wrong in my response. The comment you were reacting to did not mention the word diagnose. And I shouldn't have used it in my response.

You seemed to have jumped to a conclusion, used the word diagnose, and you are now trying to argue about the use of that word.

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Post by yieldcrv »

originalvichy wrote: post #167

I can't stop seeing the heavy gender skew in online communities centred around these topics. Both the sexual orientation as well as mental disorder communities like this seem to be most popular among teenager or young adult women. As a man I don't know how teenage hormones affect girls different than boys at that age, so I can't even give an uneducated guess as to what could be the source of this attraction towards q…

Ha I know so many completely feminine cisgender women that are “nonbinary” now and using the additional “they” pronoun alongside she/her

and that community has left zero ability to criticize or question that, since its a unilateral choice

does that make me Queer or Pansexual for dating/hooking up with a completely feminine cisgender woman who calls herself nonbinary or using they pronouns alongside she/her

I would definitely consider this a fad, even as “allyship” to actually nonbinary or even trans people its borderline offensive to pretend to relate if there are no consequences for doing so for the cisgender person compared to the persons being attacked and invalidated and fearing for their lives

The fad reminds me of high school girls being into “yaoi” which is just manga with gay guys

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Post by Apocryphon »

MichaelCollins wrote: post #361
watwut wrote: post #323

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Male on male bullying also moved away from pure physical violence. Men beat each other up much less often. The physical violence is mostly realm of very low socioeconomic status. Bullying still exists tho.

Having been on the receiving end of some physical and social/psychological bullying, I think maybe we've gone astray by suppressing the former in favor of the latter. The times I got into fights I was left bruised and humbled, but in all but one case I was able to bury the hatchet with those people. The rumor spreading is different. With social bullying there's no sense of finality after a fight, no reconciliation or…

Formalize it into combat sports, with rules, referees, and medical personnel on staff. Or just competitive sports in general. But don't permit physical bullying. Your experiences elide over cases where there was serious harm done to the victim, physical or otherwise, or led to disproportionate retaliation.

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Post by deepdriver »

Dobbs wrote: post #376
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The daily signal is not a reputable source for anything, and most definitely not for trans related topics. Keira Bell purposefully lied and ignored all guidance and gatekeeping she was given; as she has openly admitted. She proceeded with transitioning, and then decided she was wrong. Kiera Bell won her initial court case against tavistock and got puberty blockers banned. This ruling has been overruled. The ruling wa…

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