3. Self diagnoses of diverse conditions including anxiety, depression, eating disor...

Self diagnoses of diverse conditions including anxiety, depression, eating disorders, autism, and gender identity-related conditions has been linked to social media platforms.

Well, mass access, sharing, hyper-concentration/distillation into one tiktok after another after another, in bite-sized portions that press your dopamine button continually, for hours upon hours.

People learning actual facts about disorders they were just living and struggling with they didn’t know they had, and seeking professional diagnosis and help/treatment, is 100% good and positive.

People having (at best partially legitimate) quasi-factoids being fired out of an information cannon into their brain from a device they’re willingly holding up to their face and almost literally cannot put down/drinking from a fire hose of misinformation and self-reinforcing “we’re all broken in some way, most of which have an acronym associated with them, thus we have ‘it’, and this explains everything” self-diagnosis is poison that pathologises behavior well within what’s normal, but somewhere near the boundaries of normal. This convinces people (who may even really want to be convinced) that they’re broken and have one or more syndromes or conditions, without anyone with actual knowledge diagnosing them, and worse, not seeking diagnosis lest it not all be true as they’re convinced it is, that’s a scourge on society, especially adolescents.

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