Christina Buttons – The Daily Wire Jan 19, 2023
Researchers have examined the troubling trend of teens self-diagnosing mental illness through social media.
A new paper published earlier this month in Comprehensive Psychiatry proposed that “social contagion” through prolonged social media use can explain why some teens, mostly adolescent females, self-diagnose their purported rare mental illnesses and personality disorders online.
“We believe there is an urgent need for focused empirical research investigation into this concerning phenomenon that is related to the broader research and discourse examining social media influences on mental health,” said the study’s lead author, John D. Haltigan, and co-author, Gayathiri Rajkumar, in a recent article for Reality’s Last Stand.
The paper focused on the uptick in teens presenting with tics with no known biological cause and the resurgence of the extremely rare multiple personality disorder, now called Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), in which a person claims to harbor multiple distinct personalities. Also mentioned are the prevalence of autism, depression, eating disorders, and gender identity-related conditions on social media.
“That rates of teen and adolescent depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation have risen precipitously since the advent of social media and smartphones is likely no coincidence,” the authors said.
The paper proposes that social media platforms like TikTok, whose core user base are teen girls, and the popularity of online communities that glamorize mental illness, may act as a “spread vector” for adolescents to adopt various disorders as part of their online personas.
“While posting about personal struggles with mental illness online may be emotionally genuine to some, it is more accurately understood as a behavioral display to fit in and appear unique to others online,” the authors said.
Since the pandemic in 2020, while many were shuttered indoors relying heavily on social media, neurologists began seeing droves of teen girls reporting the sudden onset of physical and verbal tics. Experts believe that teen girls around the world have started reenacting tics after watching popular influencers with Tourette’s syndrome on TikTok.
Neurologists call them functional tics, or functional tic-like behavior, as they appear to start out of nowhere, and “functional” in medicine refers to “no known physical cause.” Functional tics differ from Tourettes, a nervous system disorder with a known physical cause, characterized by repetitive, unwanted movements and sounds that usually begins in childhood. Tics can be imitated by watching others with tics, similar to the phenomenon doctors describe of witnessing siblings of children with seizures develop “functional seizures.”
On TikTok, the hashtag #tourettes has 7.6 billion views, #DID has 2.4 billion views, #borderlinepersonalitydisorder has 1.5 billion views, and both #transgender and #autism have 16.9 billion views.
“Unfortunately, many content creators posting these videos are not medical professionals, but are instead self-identified patients or mental health advocates who often speak on mental disorders with little to no expertise on the matter,” the authors said.
In the Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) portal, popular content creators capture themselves “switching alters,” summoning their distinct personalities in a short video format. Historically fewer than 200 cases of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) were documented over many centuries until the popular 1976 TV movie “Sybil” featured a woman who suffered from the affliction. By the late 1980s, one estimate found that more than 40,000 patients, mostly women, had come out of therapy believing they had DID.
Recently, mental health professionals have seen another boom in self-diagnosed DID, which they believe is socially influenced, not organic. The authors argue that these novel mental illnesses have become identity signifiers and are used to build a social media following.
“They may incorporate mental illness symptom presentations they are exposed to in online communities to socially assimilate and build social capital within these communities,” the authors said.
The paper sources the onset of “mental health content” to a social media platform that was popular in the 2000s called Tumblr. It “provided users who typically were seen as outcasts” with “a sense of community and belonging,” the authors said.
In 2012, Tumblr implemented a policy against blogs that promoted eating disorders, self-mutilation, and suicide due to their popularity among teens and young adults. The authors note the attempt to “de-stigmatize” and “normalize” mental illness may have had the unintended effect of glamorizing it.
“The continued evolution of this trend underscores an urgent need for increased understanding of the influence of social media on mental health, including its phenotypic clinical presentations and the possibility that increasingly algorithmic social media platforms may serve as a vehicle of transmission for social contagion of self-diagnosed mental illness conditions,” the paper concluded.
Social Media gets the truth put on it, so the Scum don’t like it and find excuses to attack it. The msm makes people feel bad if they are White, and they will get depressed, like me until the 1990s, when I changed my attitudes on Race–good energy came straightaway
The yids know that an insane/idiotic/sick population is preferable to control/enslave than a sane/intelligent/healthy one. Ergo, transform the masses via smartphones & social media apps like twitter/facebook/tiktok etc., into deranged morons. Simple.
I suspect that the popularity of Harry Potter has a lot to do with the rise in mental illnesses. You simply cannot cast spells and agree to become demon possessed without repercussions.
intuitively many of the young generation
ave the unconscious feeling that under the
today political-socioeconomic conditions
they have no future . the others using drugs
because they see no reason in this crazy world
where the lazy stinking + evil is honoured +
gets rich and the others sweating against
obstructions becomes poor or was from beginning .
like this song of a german band : DU MUßt EIN
SCHWEIN SEIN IN DIESER WELT ! you must
be a pig (a crook) in this world .
Before they had to lock people in some kind of secret facility in order to perform experiments on them. Now you just sign in 😉 This is MK ULTRA on steroids. Invisible viruses are a threat, but invisible waves like 5G are absolutely safe. Guns are a threat, but individuals on meds who carry those guns are ok. Hate speech, harassements and chicanery on the social media are a threat, but the kind of content (which is a direct cause of this behavior) as mentioned in the article and plenty of other things like streaming services, or social media are just fine. Mobile phones are the worse thing that happened to this world. We discuss how to face, chalenge and fight the elite that allegedly controls this world, but our problem are the future generations grown on these toxic devices. We won`t be able to fight that.
Adolescence is so unfair. It’s so humiliating. Boys’ voices break, girls acquire busts. It’s an endocrine rampage, assailing the growing body with unprecedented hormonal activity. Bones and tissues enlarge. Physique changes. You have to readjust your gait because suddenly you’re a lot clumsier than before.
Adolescence isn’t just a great physiological upheaval; it is also a process of psychological maturation. During puberty, it becomes the imperative to define yourself on your own terms, to assert your worth, among your peers and to vie for your place in the microcosmic hierarchy.
This is why teenagers will invariably experiment with personae or practise imitation of favoured role-models. This can lead to the silliest of fibbing. Adolescents are often, in fact, quite spectacular over-achievers when it comes to crafting plausible dishonesties.
For the most part, this is a defensive mechanism. The burgeoning adult dreads any intrusion into their intimately private, peer-shared experience of awkward bodily maturation. The teen is immediately suspicious of parents, teachers or other adults, who begin raising questions about indeterminate things in flux; your change in attitude, your clear loss of motive, your poor attendance at school, your air of resentment and your general uncooperativeness. Now, what’s really going on here, young man?
The behaviours of the young adults described above are quintessentially teenage. There’s identity construction, peer-bonding and imitation, silly fads and experiments. It errs to the sinister, contextually, when the aspirational teenager seeks to define his individuality in terms of psychopathological attributes. Badges of adulthood – mental health issues.
This generation of young adults are as malleable as they are because they were ideologically captured from pre-school. Furthermore, adolescents model adult behaviours. If pandemics and covid terrors dominate adult discourse, then you can be sure that the resentful adolescent will find some way to indulge a generational one-upmanship. “Hi, I’m a paranoid schizophrenic. That makes me a pretty special kind of guy.”
I don’t want to be too flippant, though. Our children are imperilled by the relentless demands made upon their natural being, as required of the transhumanist cause.
If we really cared for the well-being of teenagers, then we would allow them to sleep in late. Teenagers need nine and a half hours sleep per night. In a very successful experiment in Scandinavia, select schools had their morning timetable adjusted to start an hour and a half later than usual, for all teenage students. This simple provision led to improved attendance, improved attention in class and a substantial improvement in grades for the better-rested, dreamy-headed adolescents.
Nico nails it in his comment above.
A lot of people, especially teens, ARE mentally ill at this point. Us older generations have been subjected to propaganda all our lives, but millennials, teens, and pre-teens have been relentlessly pummeled with subversive, destructive, and confusing messages that have short-circuited their impressionable minds.
The predator class, led by the relentless force of degradation and destruction that is Jewry, has only intensified their efforts and increased their avenues of attack in their full-spectrum war on humanity. It took a while but the forces of destruction have gotten a complete stranglehold on the media narrative, have turned the education system into the edjewcation system, completely corrupted the electoral and jewdicial systems, and have turned federal governments into out-of-control criminal cartels.
All-out psychological warfare, along with spiritual, physical, and chemical, has been unleashed upon humanity by the Jew world order. It wasn’t nearly as 24-7 pervasive as when many of us were growing up, as we could always separate ourselves from tell-lie-visions and “news”papers, and many schools still embraced critical thinking rather than degradation and bullshit. But now, my God, rampant addictions to social media and the little electric Jew boxes and the maniacal thumb-f*cking that goes along with them has been melting their minds and f*cking them up big time. Yet, they mistakenly believe they are better informed than ever, because Joogle told them so.
Umbra– Great explication/overview.
@ PETER
wait in case comes no nuke war
when this children now in hands of perverted
transgender teachers + squeery queens are
growing adults . what happens !
To say the world has gone mad is only trivialising our decline. It’s much, much, worst than that.
@ UMBRA BELLATOR
and many christians believe Jesus was no jew
and is the son of peace . NO , his spirit is jewish
teaching his disciples that he came to bring fire +
sword + to bring division into the families . same
exactly today do the jewish PTB on WHITES
atleast, maybe to the rest of the world .