Faking mental illness for TikTok views

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Nat discusses the newest "self-diagnosis" TikTok trend, where young people use the platform as a way of determining a host of mental illnesses. This issue kicked off a few years ago when doctors saw a spike in teenage girls appearing in their clinics, saying they had tic-like symptoms associated with Tourette's. Since then, the issue has only gotten worse, and doctors have definitively said: "YES! TikTok is causing this!"

This video outlines some of the stupidity going on over on TikTok. And, you will cringe so hard at some of the videos to which she reacts.

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