DiaryofaFloppingFishCW: mental health, self-diagnosis
When mental health language gets hijacked, it strips away the words real patients rely on. And self-diagnosing from TikTok can mean walking away from treatment that could actually help.
https://www.diaryofafloppingfish.com/post/social-media-and-mental-health-the-folly-of-self-diagnosis
I wrote about this recently — including the post-2020 research on tics, the DID trend, and why "gaslighting" doesn't mean what the internet thinks it means.
#MentalHealth #SelfDiagnosis #SocialMedia #MentalHealthAwareness#MentalHealthAwareness
Social Media and Mental Health: The Folly of Self Diagnosis
When I took Abnormal Psychology at Delta Community College it wasn't long before I was questioning whether or not I had every disorder in the book that I had never even considered that I might have or heard of before. When the book stated something along the lines of "most people diagnose themselves with various disorders while reading this book" I breathed a huge sigh of relief