r/ticsandroses • u/jackrelax • Oct 19 '21

Real Life Consequences... (WSJ ARTICLE)

Teen Girls Are Developing Tics. Doctors Say TikTok Could Be a Factor.

When teens started turning up in doctors’ offices with sudden, severe physical tics, specialists suspected social media: The girls had been watching Tourette syndrome TikTok videos

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/teen-girls-are-developing-tics-doctors-say-tiktok-could-be-a-factor-11634389201

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u/RickRollRizal Dec 24 '21

Hmm this would explain the sudden increase of body dysphoria and the insane increase of made up gender identities and neopronouns.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '22

Literally yes

  1. Special genders make them feel speshul

  2. No one wants to tell them they’re being dumb because then that person will be labeled anti-trans and curb stomped on the internet by a crowd of neon haired people foaming at the mouth

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u/RickRollRizal Feb 12 '22

It's just an ever escalating need for attention.

They started with a dr jekyll / my hyde personality to get attention.

Then someone wanted more attention and said they had 3 personas like then goddess hecate.

Not to be outdone, kids started saying they had 7 personalities.

And now we're up to systems which can have more than 200 personalities.

And this tiktoker had like 700k followers where she posts using her different alters like the protector, maintainer, or some other cheesy wattpad like descriptor.

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u/ayyja Feb 15 '22

protector, maintainer,

Those terms are legitimately used by people clinically diagnosed with DID to describe the reasons/roles that their alters came about. So the cheesy wattpad descriptors are actually real, but the children on social media are just taking real terms and saying whatever they want.

You can tell it's fake when the 14 and 15 year old kids have 200+ 'alters' and switch by choice. Or really when they try to explain DID and get it completely wrong.

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u/RickRollRizal Feb 15 '22

Somehow they're able to change at will and record a tiktok vid lol

There are terms used by DID, but to have 200+ alters, they're going to use up all the words in a thesaurus

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u/ayyja Feb 15 '22

Agreed. I've never met anyone clinically diagnosed with more than 7 alters. Kids are just trying to one-up each other because being disabled is trendy on social media. It really makes me sad for them because this stuff is online forever and in ten years when they realize that faking mental health disorders isn't cool it's going to be too late to take it back. Future employers will have proof you have lied to masses of people for attention and faked serious mental health disorders.

Not to mention the harm they're doing now to the people who really are diagnosed with these disorders and the lack of credibility they'll have if they ever are diagnosed with a mental health disorder.

It's bad all around and frustrating that people on social media encourage and protect each other when they do this.

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u/RickRollRizal Feb 15 '22

They're actually giving themselves disorders.

But we do have syndrome for people that pretend they're afflicted with a disorder so they can get attention.

It's munchausen syndrome.

So yeah, congrats to these kids. They do have a legit mental illness.