Mental Health Awareness Is Backfiring on Teens | NYT Opinion
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Even if you don't have a mental illness, you should still see a professional to get professionally screened.
It is better if you screen yourself and don't have it, rather than having it, and not screening yourself.
Awareness can only be a good thing. Just be aware of the misinformation too. The purpose of awareness is not to reduce the rates of mental health problems, but to ensure that the people that needs help gets it.
100%. The message of this video is such a bad take. The videos she’s showing (which include actual diagnostic criteria for GAD) help today’s youth understand and validate their lived experiences in ways the older generations never got to.
I see it as Psychology/Psychiatry losing its stigma as being "crazy". I have been sure to talk to my kids, and get them the help they need. Unfortunately, American healthcare system doesn't provide access to those in need, and so many people and teenagers are resorting to self-diagnosis.
People don't often go to a medical doctor when they feel nothing is wrong. The same goes for mental health. If a person thinks their struggles are normal they won't seek out mental health care. People are mostly "self-diagnosing" for two reasons. Either they are doing it as a precursor to seeking out mental health care so that they know if they should and what to talk to the provider about, or they are unable to see someone because of the exorbitant cost or wait times for health care (in the US mostly) and will use that "self-diagnosis" to seek out freely avainlable information on coping and wellness mechanisms. No one is "self-diagnosing" because they want to be cool. They are doiing so because they want to understand themselves better to be happy, healthy, and productive. There has been such a long-standing taboo in the past generations preventing people from talking about or getting help for mental health issues, and now those taboos are finally breaking down and people are becoming more aware. If it seems like 'these days everyone has some kind of mental health issue' maybe that's not because everyone is trying to be like the /s cool kids at therapy, but that the taboos and harmful child-rearing attitudes of the 19th and 20th centuries have caused a generational cycle of trauma, anxiety, depression, and other mental health problems. Because of this, I feel that you shaming other content creators for trying to bring about more awareness is harmful and repugnant. Maybe you should rethink some of your choices, and you should take this video down.
I mean that’s one negative, but I think the making oneself aware part ultimately serves a better purpose in the end. People have their phases. We say things, and we identify with things, and then five years later take it back. It’s (mostly) fine and normal.
Is it, though? Because I once convinced myself I had a tick and literally gave myself that tick by believing I had it. Believing you have a disorder that you don't have and overanalysing your every thought and feeling can be damaging.
Instead of going "This is high functioning anxiety," they should say "If you experience so and so you should consider seeing a doctor/therapist because it can sometimes be a sign of so and so."
@@initiatinreallife and now you know better. Look how far you came. That’s kinda how it goes.
So what evidence is there for a rise in false diagnoses?
This is true. They really should be more specific.
Yeah I am probably self diagnosed, but I do FEEL it. It's like a silent scream that you have to keep silent or risk losing everything. I can not AFFORD to take time off in this country. Groceries are DOUBLED. Everything has skyrocketed. DO NOT TELL ME that we don't have anxiety because most of us do RIGHT NOW. So you can FO.
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Are people having access to mental health information more likely to realize they have a mental health issue? Who’d have thought?
It’s always important to seek a medical professional. Don’t suffer in silence.
I feel like we live in this era of "everyone is mentally ill so no one is mentally ill."
THANK YOU guys for covering this. This needs to be covered more.
It's a fine line between a disorder and pathologizing everything. That's why we go to years of grad school and have to be licensed to make a dx. If you think you have a mental disorder, please speak w/ a licensed mental health professional about what you've found on tt that makes you think you might have a problem.
This is what’s happening to my 24 yr old niece. Every few weeks she adds another label to her instagram bio. She lives rent free at her dad’s house, only works partime, has her car bc her dad bought it… literally no burdens or stress that most self sufficient adults face on the daily. Yet she’s “bi polar, neurodivergent, manic depressive, anxiety syndrome, ADD and a people pleaser” and many more labels all within 2 years. Bc of this she uses that as an excuse to not deal with people except her core few
Absolutely true 👍
I mean these are TikTok users, by definition not very smart people, so it's the new natural selection of information I guess.
People do the same thing with medical diagnoses. They read Dr. Google prior to coming and refuse to be educated that what they think they have, they really don’t. 😢
..good video..
I feel like a lot of the comments here are weirdly defensive (because lets face it, a lot of us in the younger generations have self diagnosed, which kinda proves the point this video is making), and they are also missing the point.
The problem isn't that these influencers spread awareness but that they are breaking down diagnoses to a few bullet points which leads to young people self diagnosing, possibly falsely. And believing you have a mental illness when you don't isn't without consequences. For some anecdotal evidence: I once gave myself a tick because I believed I had one. You can think these things into reality. What these tiktoks should be encouraging is peopoe going to see a doctor to get an actual diagnosis. I have done so, and turns out I am mentally ill, just not at all in the way 13 year old me thought.
Hmm my stomach hurts my feet get itchy and I’m kinda pale, WebMD yea you die like 5 months ago. 😂😂😂
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these types of videos are ruining society - increasing victim mentality and increasing self diagnosis - which is not valid i said what i said
You are a victim blamer. I hope no one around you ever has anything wrong for them because you just make everything worse.
Im taking a bath.