Sydney Watson | TikTok is a mental illness factory. And we're in an epidemic. @SydneyWatson | Uploaded October 2021 | Updated October 2024, 18 hours ago.
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Links:
Girls developing tics: yahoo.com/news/doctors-rise-tic-behaviors-among-180314961.html
movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mds.28778

Predatory behaviour: the-sun.com/news/445815/tiktok-app-dangerous-children

DSM5- TikTok: thefrontierpsychiatrists.substack.com/p/dsm-5-tiktok?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=

Munchausen by Internet: theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/29/jules-gibson-munchausen-by-internet-sickness-bloggers-fake-it-whole-pantry

Faking mental illness: i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/pkb397/illness-faking-accusations-tiktok

Social media is redefining depression: theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/10/social-media-is-redefining-depression/280818

MENTAL DISORDERS: A GLAMOROUS ATTRACTION ON SOCIAL MEDIA? universitypublications.net/jte/0701/pdf/V7NA374.pdf

Billie Eilish: dailynorthwestern.com/2019/10/13/opinion/buonomo-billie-eilish-romanticizes-serious-mental-illnesses

Marc Feldman: munchausen.com/about

Munchausen: uofmhealth.org/health-library/hw180537
my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9833-munchausen-syndrome-factitious-disorder-imposed-on-self

Age of TikTok users: statista.com/statistics/1095186/tiktok-us-users-age
pewresearch.org/internet/2021/04/07/social-media-use-in-2021

TikTok controversies: businessinsider.com/tiktok-transphobia-problem-creators-report-harassment-threats-2021-2?op=1
twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/02/06/you-like-boy-activities-that-kinda-means-youre-transgendered-child-gets-an-earful-in-tiktok-video
lifesitenews.com/news/queer-neurodivergent-teacher-brags-about-indoctrinating-small-children-into-gender-ideology
theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/26/tiktoks-local-moderation-guidelines-ban-pro-lgbt-content

Furries: rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/furry-fandom-tiktok-gen-z-midwest-furfest-924789

LBGTQ internet: them.us/story/trans-teen-name-change-tiktok
metroweekly.com/2021/03/tiktok-influencer-warns-parents-of-trans-kids-to-flee-alabama-after-anti-trans-health-care-bill-passes/amp
gaytimes.co.uk/originals/its-here-and-queer-how-tiktok-became-the-gen-z-tool-of-lgbtq-education
today.com/tmrw/how-transgender-nonbinary-creators-are-using-tiktok-inform-educate-t224068
rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/tiktok-preacher-brandan-robertson-lgbtq-faith-1185814

Illness fakers: reddit.com/r/illnessfakers

TikTok and mental health: mashable.com/article/tiktok-mental-health-therapist-psychology
mashable.com/article/anxiety-depression-social-media-sad-online
vtcynic.com/opinion/tiktok-needs-to-stop-romanticizing-eating-disorders
https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/03/25/anxiety-depression-increasing-among-adolescents/

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