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Trend with Side Effects: When TikTok Becomes a Therapist – The Dangerous Self-Diagnosis Wave Among Adolescents

Summary by Lokalkompass
One click – and suddenly you have ADHD, depression or borderline.On platforms like TikTok, videos in which young people talk about mental illness often accumulate – with good intentions, but fatal consequences. Because what begins as enlightenment often ends in a wave of self-diagnosis that undermines medical standards and makes real help difficult.TikTok is the new Google of Gen Z – especially when it comes to mental health.The hashtag #mentalh…
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One click – and suddenly you have ADHD, depression or borderline.On platforms like TikTok, videos in which young people talk about mental illness often accumulate – with good intentions, but fatal consequences. Because what begins as enlightenment often ends in a wave of self-diagnosis that undermines medical standards and makes real help difficult.TikTok is the new Google of Gen Z – especially when it comes to mental health.The hashtag #mentalh…

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Lokalkompass broke the news in on Thursday, June 5, 2025.
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