A mysterious outbreak of tic disorders on TikTok? Join the world’s leading expert Dr. Robert Bartholomew, an expert on mass psychogenic illness, to find out why in this short doc about the mind.
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Back in the 1970s I watched "I, Claudius", in the US played on PBS' Masterpiece Theatre. I loved the series. I was really impressed with Derek Jacobi's portrayal of Claudius. I started affecting the same head tic Jacobi used for Claudius…just the head tic, not any of the other affectations. I didn't stick with it as a common behavior, but it still now pops up if I think about something uncomfortable, at least as a passing thought.
It's not quite the same thing described here, but I know it's a self-trained thing, now set in for that rare occasion. I did that to myself.
Would hypnosis be helpful? ,,, Victor Blake, M.D. M.T.S., F.A.C.P.
too much of anything has always been poison
it should be up to the parents to control these obsessions to social media and online activity.
I know about all broh thanks… Humans nature is weird…I need to feel really really nothing I'm…
This is a joke, right?
This was worth the watch.
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I've seen many respected YTers doing videos and read medical articles on the phenomenon of young people faking mental illnesses, especially on Tik Tok. And I do believe that many, if not most are faking it.
In fact, one article, written by a university professor, talked about the low percentage of people in the general population who have certain conditions/mental illnesses, and the very high percentage of young people in a small friend cluster who have it.
A couple years ago, it was an abnormally high number of teenaged girls claiming that they were trans boys. Some of them even went on male hormones, and when their bodies started changing, they realized that they weren't boys at all, and after going off the hormones, having to come to the realization that they had done permanent damage to their female bodies. I'm certainly not saying that there are no teenagers trans boys, and they deserve all the support and understanding that their families and doctors can give them. But all those girls, claiming to be cute, "soft boys" did the real trans kids more harm than good.
Then we moved on to young people claiming to have ADHD, Tourette's, and DID…all self diagnosed. And claiming that a self diagnoses is just as valid as a clinical diagnoses. IT IS NOT. My daughter is 29, and from the age of 16 suffered with terrible anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and feelings of being disconnected from everything around her. Because the symptoms of so many mental illnesses overlap, it can be difficult for a trained professional to make a diagnoses…especially since you can't do a blood test or urine test for a mental illness, it is diagnosed on symptoms alone. It took 11 years of misdiagnoses and medications that made her condition worse or didn't help at all before she was finally diagnosed with ADHD. ELEVEN YEARS!! And, apparently, that's not uncommon, because its symptoms can mimic so many other things, like bipolar disorder. So, I find it very offensive when these kids self diagnose, then make Tik Toks to "bring awareness" to the condition by sitting and zoning out in front of the camera, and making it seem like something silly and quirky. It's not. It's a debilitating condition, and it's taken until almost the age of 30, and finally finding the medication that works for her, for my daughter to start getting her life on track.
I'm equally offended by the kids presenting bipolar disorder, Tourette's, DID, and other serious mental illnesses as if they're something quirky, something that makes them different and interesting. All they're doing is harming anyone who really has one of those conditions, and would like to make videos bringing awareness to the public, but then who get lumped in with all the fakes. I honestly think that anyone who fakes a mental illness for attention is disgusting.
And that girl asked why would anyone fake something so awful…it's very simple, it's just for attention. People do some horrible, toxic things on Tik Tok for attention, and this is just one of those horrible, toxic things.
Don't believe anything you see.
Tik tok, the clue's in the name!
Welcome to Psychotronics .
one thing is really dominant about this phenomena, yet it's stay untalkable : most, almost all, the "victims" of this disorder, are females. any explanation ?
Sounds similar to a yawn spreading.
This seems like a weird/out of place video to be posted by a short film channel…
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