All You Need To Know About TikTok Diagnosis Videos That Are Creating Mental Disorders Among Teenagers
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CREDIT: everydayhealth
Nowadays people are using TikTok for entertainment purposes. But have you ever noticed that a serious mental disorder is spreading among teenagers? The topic of destigmatizing Mental health is trending over the TikTok application extensively.
Reports say that kids are making themselves the medium to acknowledge the early symptoms of mental disorders as they are offering the list through this video-sharing platform.
TikTok has nowadays helped professionals for spreading awareness about the information related to mental health to a wider audience. It is gradually filling the gap of lack of information about the concerns of mental disorders. But the question arises among the majority who are asking the mental health professionals about the stage of concern in mental disorder?
The short videos available over TikTok can create misconceptions among people as they are not offering many details. Therefore a person binge-watching these TikTok diagnosis videos may face a negative placebo effect.
What Are Tiktok Diagnosis Videos?
Recently a new trend has started over the video-streaming platform, TikTok. People are sharing their mental health issues signs by creating a video showing the list of symptoms on the screen. These are helping many people over the TikTok app to examine themselves. Some of the videos state the early signs of certain mental conditions there are labeled under the stage of concern.
Some of the video creators also suggest people meet their mental health professionals before following any step through their videos.
Effect on Teenagers
As per sources, a girl has been diagnosed with anxiety and depression at the age of 10 after binge-watching these TikTok diagnosis videos. The girl is a high school student whose name is Samantha Fridley.
After watching some of the videos on TikTok she believed that she is suffering from mental diseases such as borderline personality disorder, bipolar disorder, and multiple personality disorders.
Many students like her get affected by watching such videos because of their age. Some of the adolescents facing changes with their emotional and mental factors may lead to long-term mental disease. Therefore they should avoid watching health-related TikTok videos extensively.
TikTok shows content by tracking your behavior on the app. If you will follow some of the comedy videos then the app will show you more comedy videos. The app acts as a virtual mind of the user and starts showing the same contents that it thinks the user will like to watch.
If a person will watch a health video then the application will overflow the health-related contents on your feed. Though TikTok is planning to add a feature that will assure the parents to change the settings and minimize single-topic video on the user’s feed.
Professional’s Advice
Mental health professionals suggest all the parents not brush off their child’s self-diagnosis. During the adolescent period, Children are already going through many changes that are creating mental stress. In this case, the best thing you can do is consult a therapist or take a break from social media.
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