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You have to be careful when you talk about "awareness" in this way... Teenagers are easily influenced. If they start seeing news of their peers facing any adver

by brabel 4y ago

You have to be careful when you talk about "awareness" in this way... Teenagers are easily influenced. If they start seeing news of their peers facing any adversity, they start reporting they, too, have it. This is well known and a kind of meme these days.. look up "Tiktok tics"[0]... the much worse version of this is suicide epidemics, which always happens when there's a local suicide. [0] https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/features/dying-attention-faking-illness-becomes-online-epidemic https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/features/dying-attention...

red-iron-pine 4y ago
See also: rising rates of self-diagnosed ADHD and Tourette Syndrome arising through heavy social media use. e.g. -- https://www.wsj.com/articles/teen-girls-are-developing-tics-doctors-say-tiktok-could-be-a-factor-11634389201 https://www.wsj.com/articles/teen-girls-are-developing-tics-... Furthermore teenagers are the "IT'S NOT A PHASE MOM" group (it was definitely a phase).
- faeriechangling 4y ago
  A professional diagnosis with ADHD doesn't rely on any actual biological testing and only upon a performance by the patient and maybe evidence submitted from teachers/bosses/friends/family/etc, and it's known that a patient can fake their way to a diagnosis. So I don't care if ADHD is self-diagnosed or not, if somebody wants to get a "real diagnosis", it's easy as shit for anybody to get one, and "real diagnosis" is rising at the same time that self-diagnosis is regardless. People can diagnose themselves with whatever they want, psychiatric diagnosis is largely bullshit, my question is more why do people WANT to diagnose themselves with these conditions, and does having labels like this actually help you. To me, I see this entire phenomenon as being rooted in psychiatry taking it for granted that the more diagnosis's the general population has, the more drugs they're, the more therapy they're in, the better off they are. When psychiatry seems to think that more is better, why shouldn't teenagers think that too? Psychiatry has been applying more and more labels to the general population for decades and decades, if trends continue, todays self-diagnosed teen is next decade's totally valid patient, so aren't teens just getting ahead of the curve by self-diagnosing now?

by brabel 4y ago

red-iron-pine 4y ago

See also: rising rates of self-diagnosed ADHD and Tourette Syndrome arising through heavy social media use. e.g. -- https://www.wsj.com/articles/teen-girls-are-developing-tics-doctors-say-tiktok-could-be-a-factor-11634389201 https://www.wsj.com/articles/teen-girls-are-developing-tics-... Furthermore teenagers are the "IT'S NOT A PHASE MOM" group (it was definitely a phase).

faeriechangling 4y ago
A professional diagnosis with ADHD doesn't rely on any actual biological testing and only upon a performance by the patient and maybe evidence submitted from teachers/bosses/friends/family/etc, and it's known that a patient can fake their way to a diagnosis. So I don't care if ADHD is self-diagnosed or not, if somebody wants to get a "real diagnosis", it's easy as shit for anybody to get one, and "real diagnosis" is rising at the same time that self-diagnosis is regardless. People can diagnose themselves with whatever they want, psychiatric diagnosis is largely bullshit, my question is more why do people WANT to diagnose themselves with these conditions, and does having labels like this actually help you. To me, I see this entire phenomenon as being rooted in psychiatry taking it for granted that the more diagnosis's the general population has, the more drugs they're, the more therapy they're in, the better off they are. When psychiatry seems to think that more is better, why shouldn't teenagers think that too? Psychiatry has been applying more and more labels to the general population for decades and decades, if trends continue, todays self-diagnosed teen is next decade's totally valid patient, so aren't teens just getting ahead of the curve by self-diagnosing now?