Teens turn to TikTok in search of a mental health diagnosis
Mental Health Diagnosis, even by longtime professionals, is notoriously unrealiable. Research keeps finding that it is determined more by the attitude, experience and values (ie. for example religious values) of the person doing the diagnosis.<p>In practice, the number of clients&#x2F;patients complaining that their diagnosis was changed something like 10 times, with an ever longer list of ever more serious problems, while treatments don&#x27;t work, but DO interfere with life. And then there are mandatory treatments that keep being researched as worse than doing nothing.<p>And, of course, there is the famous study of<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rosenhan_experiment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rosenhan_experiment</a><p>And it&#x27;s more recent, less dramatic, but probably more valid cousin:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedaily.com&#x2F;releases&#x2F;2019&#x2F;07&#x2F;190708131152.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedaily.com&#x2F;releases&#x2F;2019&#x2F;07&#x2F;190708131152.h...</a><p>Add to that that everyone feels capable of making such diagnoses themselves anyway. In every ended relationship these days, it seems, the relationship ended because the woman was schizophrenic and the man nacissist ... or vice versa.<p>It used to be the case that if a person is &quot;functional&quot;, which usually means able to hold down a job for at least a couple of months at a time, they were psychologically healthy.<p>So why not make mental health diagnoses on tiktok, in bars, in ... everywhere? Yes it&#x27;s not very valid, but everyone&#x27;s doing it anyway ... and the official way to do it is not much more valid than doing things that way. This way, hopefully, people can see mental health diagnosis as what it really is: 99% bullshit.