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

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.

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Post by MonkeyMalarky » Mon, Aug 01, 2022, 1:04 PM UTC

I 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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Post by jrm4 » Mon, Aug 01, 2022, 1:08 PM UTC

overthemoon wrote: post #5

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?"

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Post by jgalt212 » Mon, Aug 01, 2022, 1:08 PM UTC

This reminds me of every other student while taking Abnormal Psychology in college.

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Post by nippoo » Mon, Aug 01, 2022, 1:10 PM UTC

Related: medical students' disease!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_students%27_disease

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Post by morley » Mon, Aug 01, 2022, 1:10 PM UTC

h2odragon wrote: post #2

Reminds 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.