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

Post by Bubble_Pop_22 » Mon, Aug 01, 2022, 5:11 PM UTC

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> This shows that someone can climb to the top of the social world but still be told they have a disease supposedly associated with "significant negative impact" on social skills. Narcissists, sociopaths regularly climb up while being impaired and causing damage everyone around. People with OCD or hypochondriac too. Bipolar people the same. That does not make those non existent either.

I don't see how your mention of OCD, bipolar disorder, narcissisms or sociopathy is relevant to someone with a supposed social skill disorder being really good at navigating and conquering the social world. To me the claim that Musk has Aspergers is like being told an Olympic marathon runner has a leg disability.

Post by mensetmanusman » Mon, Aug 01, 2022, 5:15 PM UTC

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It feels as though our society has collectively forgotten that mental illness can be socially transmissible. I remember in 00s there seemed to be mainstream acknowledgement and concern that anorexia and distorted perception of one's body can be socially transmissible, ripping through teen social cliches particularly, and could be spread through the internet by "pro-ana" websites and chat groups. I don't hear much abo…

> It feels as though our society has collectively forgotten that mental illness can be socially transmissible I mean, that's what religion is. It's a shared delusion that functions as a mind virus, where the conceptualization of deities that are on your side (but not the other side's) is mistaken for there actually being such a thing. The fact that it's normalized doesn't change the fact that it's a delusion.

Post by DonHopkins » Mon, Aug 01, 2022, 5:16 PM UTC

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> To me, you can be depressed about something and not have depression. You can be anxious about something and not have anxiety. Those are slightly more sophisticated uses of sad and worry. You are contradicting your own examples: > You’re not sad, you’re depressed. You don’t worry, you have anxiety. It's possible the people are expressing they are feeling depressed or having anxiety in a colloquial way without confus…

You missed the sarcasm/jest on my first examples. I should have tagged them or been clearer. On the later the separation is: “I’m depressed” = Sad or a variation of it. “I have depression” = Diagnosis of a disorder

Post by photochemsyn » Mon, Aug 01, 2022, 5:19 PM UTC

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If that "delusion" were really so maladaptive it would have been outcompeted by now.

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Aug 01, 2022, 5:21 PM UTC

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Tik 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?"