{"id":1810494,"date":"2023-01-19T14:03:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T19:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1810494"},"modified":"2023-01-19T15:32:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T20:32:54","slug":"social-media-is-influencing-teens-to-adopt-mental-illness-identities-researchers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/social-media-is-influencing-teens-to-adopt-mental-illness-identities-researchers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Is Influencing Teens To Adopt Mental Illness Identities, Researchers Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsocial-media-is-influencing-teens-to-adopt-mental-illness-identities-researchers-say%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1810494&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Researchers found troubling trends in teens diagnosing their mental illnesses through social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0010440X22000682\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new paper<\/a>\u00a0Published in Comprehensive Psychiatry earlier this month, it suggested that \u201csocial contagion\u201d Teens can self-diagnose their personality disorders and rare mental illnesses online by using social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe 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,\u201d said the study\u2019s lead author, John D. Haltigan,\u00a0and co-author, Gayathiri Rajkumar, in a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realityslaststand.com\/p\/social-media-and-the-rise-of-performative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> for Reality\u2019s Last Stand.<\/p>\n<p>The paper examined the rise in teens with tics without a known cause and the resurgence the very rare. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/what-the-recovered-memory-movement-can-tell-us-about-the-gender-affirmation-movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">multiple personality disorder<\/a>Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is a condition in which one person claims to have multiple personalities. Other disorders include autism, depression and eating disorders. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/at-least-6-of-students-identify-as-transgender-at-one-california-school-district-data-analysis-finds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gender identity-related<\/a> Social media conditions\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat rates of teen and adolescent depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation have <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1diMvsMeRphUH7E6D1d_J7R6WbDdgnzFHDHPx9HXzR5o\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">risen precipitously<\/a> since the advent of social media and smartphones is likely no coincidence,\u201d According to the authors.<\/p>\n<p>The paper suggests that social media platforms like TikTok could be used to promote a more open and inclusive society. <a href=\"https:\/\/wallaroomedia.com\/blog\/social-media\/tiktok-statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">core user base<\/a> Teen girls are at risk, and online communities that glorify mental illness may be a way to encourage them. \u201cspread vector\u201d Adoption of disorders by adolescents as part their online personas is possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile 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,\u201d According to the authors.<\/p>\n<p>Neurologists have begun seeing patients since 2020&#8217;s pandemic. While many were forced to go indoors and heavily rely on social media, others began seeing them. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.harvard.edu\/blog\/tics-and-tiktok-can-social-media-trigger-illness-202201182670\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">droves<\/a> Many teenage girls have reported experiencing sudden physical and verbal tics. Experts believe that teen girls around the world have started reenacting tics after watching popular influencers with Tourette\u2019s syndrome on TikTok.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These behaviors are often called functional tics or functional tic-like behavior by neurologists. They appear to come out of nowhere and can be described as neurologists call functional tics. \u201cfunctional\u201d In medicine, it refers to \u201cno known physical cause.\u201d Tourettes are a type of neurological disorder with a physical cause. Functional tics is different than Tourettes. It&#8217;s characterized by unwanted, repetitive movements and sounds that often begin in childhood. You can mimic tics by looking at others who have them, which is similar to what doctors call &#8220;ticking&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryford.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/tiktok-giving-teen-girls-tics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">describe<\/a> Witnessing the development of seizures in siblings is something I am proud to be a part of \u201cfunctional seizures.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, 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,\u201d According to the authors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Popular content creators can now upload their own images to the Dissociative Identity Disorder portal (DID). \u201cswitching alters,\u201d In a video format, they summon their individual personalities. In the past, less than 200 cases (Dissociative Identity Disorder) were recorded until the 1976 TV movie. \u201cSybil\u201d This story was about a woman who had suffered from this affliction. One had died by the 1980s. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/books\/the-true-story-behind-sybil-and-her-multiple-personalities-1.4268459\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimate<\/a> It was found that over 40,000 people, mostly women, believed they had DID after receiving therapy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Recent developments in mental health have led to another set of professionals working in the field. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/abcs-child-psychiatry\/202203\/the-tiktok-inspired-surge-dissociative-identity-disorder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">boom<\/a> They believe that self-diagnosed DID is socially influenced. The authors claim that these new mental illnesses have been used as identity markers and to build a following on social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey may incorporate mental illness symptom presentations they are exposed to in online communities to socially assimilate and build social capital within these communities,\u201d According to the authors.<\/p>\n<p>The paper sources the onset \u201cmental health content\u201d Tumblr was a popular social media platform in 2000. It \u201cprovided users who typically were seen as outcasts\u201d With \u201ca sense of community and belonging,\u201d According to the authors.<\/p>\n<p>Tumblr established a policy to ban blogs that promote eating disorders, self-mutilation or suicide in 2012. This was due largely to their popularity among young adults and teens. The authors point out the effort to \u201cde-stigmatize\u201d And \u201cnormalize\u201d It is possible that mental illness has been glorified.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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,\u201d The paper was closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have examined the troubling trend of teens self-diagnosing mental illness through social media.\u00a0 A new paper\u00a0published earlier this month in Comprehensive Psychiatry proposed that \u201csocial contagion\u201d through prolonged social media use can explain why some teens, mostly adolescent females, self-diagnose their purported rare mental illnesses and personality disorders online.\u00a0 \u201cWe believe there is an &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1489,"featured_media":1810497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[13179,6202,12281,9255,15597,4188,10397,8684,5127,3647,6195],"class_list":["post-1810494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-adopt","tag-daily","tag-identities","tag-illness","tag-influencing","tag-media","tag-mental","tag-researchers","tag-social","tag-teens","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1810497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}