Psychiatry professor Dr. Wizdom Powell discusses the issues with teens diagnosing themselves with mental illness on TikTok, and shares advice for parents.
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Whaaat???? Social media is bad for your mental health???? Gasp
Literally they say they have rare disorders because they think they match a couple vague symptoms from a tiktok teenager…
It's not tiktok problem it's the child and their parent's
It’s further stigmatizing the things they’re romanticizing because no one is taking it seriously anymore. This is early 2010s tumblr repeating itself in video format.
Sometimes self-diagnosing isn’t a bad thing. It’s a good step to getting to where you need to be with getting a proper diagnosis but it’s wrong to say you have the condition rather than say you believe you have it or *suspect*. Not everyone can afford to get a proper diagnosis and therapy and medications are incredibly expensive so self-diagnosis can be helpful to people. There’s just a certain way to go about it. When I was a teenager, I suspected I had depression and some form of anxiety. I got diagnosed. I have depression and two different forms of anxiety. So it’s not all bad. Please try to understand other peoples situations.
This is why we need more education about mental health and have more access to legit mental health resources. The topic is becoming huge faster than people can catch up with, so people are so easily misinformed about it.
Seriously tik tok really needs to do something about stuff like this #mentalhealthmatters
Teen girls diagnose themselves with their friends as trans people very commonly now its frightening.
Tik Tok is far and away the most useless app I've ever seen. It's a platform for any/all deranged and self-serving assclowns to dupe SHEEPLE into doing the dumbest things just to get…what? Likes? Hits? Followers? Anyone on there making videos telling kids to electrocute themselves, eat tide pods, and now we got more wannabe Dr's (like Oz and Phil) trying to diagnose some of the very conditions the site helps to exacerbate with their braindead videos. Exactly how much more "enlightened" or "smarter" are we really because of social media?
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People believe everything they see on social media regarding anything what's new
Blame society Not TikTok 😠
Tik Tok challenge?
The US is the only country that has school shootings.
WTF: US parents protest about? A: 185 school shootings in 10 years B: Masks.
Thank God I'm not American!
The USA, where you used to be able to own people but now suddenly wearing a mask is having your freedom taken away. H.Franklin
US parents protest at school meetings about? A: 185 school shootings in 10 years B: Masks.
Social media and mainstream broadcasts showing American pandemic mismanagement is BORING. Land of the free my butt.
The news SHOULD BE New Zealanders have ONLY 51 deaths NOT Americans having a WHOPPING 844,272 !!
we need to destroy social media and hollywood. Both are contributors to trash culture, toxic masculinity, and disorderly conduct
These kids have to much free time. They need a job.
What’s the connection between fake media selling propaganda and fear and suicide? People thinking everyone can change their gender with a flip of a switch…. are not🤖
TikTok has to do a better job at taking this type of stuff down before it spreads
I survived my suicidal attempt 18 years ago. I am so grateful that I didn’t die even though I became paralyzed. By God’s Grace, my mental health is excellent now. If you are depressed, I hope you will not give up, it’s a treatable medical condition. If I can recover, anyone is able to potentially. Sharing my experience here https://youtu.be/xi-on4PmKuE
Lol of course they would! Stupid moron kids thinking these things.
Despite the Economic crisis its still a good time to start up an investment
This isn’t new? Going back to when tumblr was popular kids were doing the same thing.
Yup! Don't know what HD is…but my doctor says I got 80 of them! (ADHD)
as seen on TT.
We all knew this. Shut it down.
Can we just ban all social media from the United States. None of it is good!
if anything they're just stupid.
This is what happens when you lock your kids in a bubble
There’s your future leaders and workforce. A mixed crowd of mentally unstable beings with a large serving of narcissism. TikTok leading the way with the influencer movement.