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> It's the reason they ... A recent nytimes opinion on the subject: https://twitter.com/emmma_camp_/status/1726390207740608823 https://twitter.com/emmma_camp_/
by kpw94 3y ago
> It's the reason they ...
A recent nytimes opinion on the subject:
https://twitter.com/emmma_camp_/status/1726390207740608823 https://twitter.com/emmma_camp_/status/1726390207740608823
>> It's generally a sign of progress when diagnoses that were once whispered in shameful secrecy enter our everyday vocabulary and shed their stigma. But especially online, where therapy "influencers" flood social media feeds with content about trauma, panic attacks and personality disorders, greater awareness of mental health problems risks encouraging self-diagnosis and the pathologizing of commonplace emotions what Dr. Foulkes calls "problems of living." When teenagers gravitate toward such content on their social media feeds, algorithms serve them more of it, intensifying the feedback loop.