With qualified therapists expensive and increasingly hard to find many young people search for answers on social media platforms where the answers are abundant and free but not necessarily accurate.
It's a relatable feeling. You're feeling unwell, have multiple symptoms, and you decide to Google what might ail you. Sometimes doom takes hold and you self-diagnose with the worst-case scenario. But it's not just physical ailments. CBS News found that as the mental health crisis among American teens deepens, they seek out alternative forms of support and information.
"I felt like there was no one that could help me. And I felt because I had been through so much that there is just no treatment for me," said Fridley."I started looking for other people through social media. Then I looked through Instagram — any social media I could. And then Tik Tok." "As you look through TikTok and as the algorithm strengthens, it turned into diagnosis and turned into other things like ADHD and borderline personality disorder and more depression and anxiety," said Fridley.
TikTok told CBS News it began testing ways to avoid recommending a series of similar content on topics to users and is checking to see if their system inadvertently feeds a narrower range of content to its viewers. According to one analysis published in The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry of popular TikTok videos about ADHD, 52% were deemed misleading.
"You can give people advice based on your experience as long as you're clear that that's where you're coming from," said Kanevsky. Stevens runs the Health Equity and Media Lab at USC. She typically works with Black and Latinx youth and studies how they are using social media to find solutions to the public health issues they face — including mental illness.
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