Self-diagnosis ads on TikTok blur mental health fears with reality

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by cyrksoft • 4 years ago

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cyrksoft• 4 years ago

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raxxorraxor• 4 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-fulfilling_prophecy

In context the discoveries of Breuer might be of interest. I think he had deeper insights than Freud and his later criticism about the too strict generalizations of Freud are fitting. But apart from he perhaps unwillingly (or not?) demonstrated the power of suggestion.

I disagree that more content control will help here though, as such controls will be transparent and the first link will become even more relevant again. A better suggestion is make the triviality of symptoms apparent, so just more elucidation about mental health problems, which only become pathological in extreme instances of certain behaviors. You don't have OCD if you check if you shut down the oven for the second, third or fourth time.

With what I agree is that this could be even more malicious than what we have classified as medical misinformation, where important critics in the medical community were ostracised. This was just intellectual laziness and failure of those on a crusade. But you have to look at the startup itself to determine that. Perhaps they just try to help people. Perhaps being healthy on social media is just not cool enough anymore.

Self-diagnosis ads on TikTok blur mental health fears with reality

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