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benny  1yr ago (academic.oup.com)   Edited 1yr ago   2898 thread views

Stop that! It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness

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In Germany, the current outbreak of mass social media-induced illness is initiated by a ‘virtual’ index case, who is the second most successful YouTube creator in Germany and enjoys enormous popularity among young people. Affected teenagers present with similar or identical functional ‘Tourette-like’ behaviours, which can be clearly differentiated from tics in Tourette syndrome.

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patients often reported to be unable to perform unpleasant tasks because of their symptoms resulting in release from obligations at school and home, while symptoms temporarily completely disappear while conducting favourite activities.

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In light of this interesting evidence what other mental illnesses might have a sociogenic component?

Multiple Personality Disorder/DID “systems”, autism, ADHD, bipolar, and even Borderline Personality Disorder can be found on /r/fakedisordercringe/ on Reddit.

How about gender dysphoria?

I mean, if you want to go for the low-hanging, excruciatingly obvious fruit, sure. But FDC is an lgbtq+ safe space, so anyone suggesting that trans kids are socially infected with a trans meme, let alone a disorder or mental illness, will get blasted from the face of Reddit.

Meanwhile, r\detrans is on super thin ice already, and only manage to survive under the eye of Sauron by restricting posts and comments to people who attest in their flair that they’re detransitioners and deserve a place for their own highly personal stories.

It’ll be interesting what historians of psychiatry will say when it becomes undeniable that the trans wave was at least partially social contagion and social media companies banned you from discussing this fact

Yes, so much of the world feels like living in "The emperor's new clothes" right now.

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