Parallels with virally spreading MH disorders

[Tech1337]

De-lurk. A condition affecting mainly girls, spread through influencers, that isn’t what people label it and scientific conclusions are violently rejected. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/social-media-illness-teen-girls/622916/ Familiar much?

Bump!

Earlier thread about this article.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4501248-How-is-the-new-rapid-onset-Tourette-syndrome-any-different-from-ROGD-This-is-an-interesting-read

This thread is also interesting.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4451429-Social-contagion-TikTok-trans-alters-multiple-personality-disorder

This film explores these issues. It's about 40 mins long but very interesting. It is social contagion and girls are more susceptible. "The call is coming from inside the house."

There have been earlier examples of this before the Internet era so limited to smaller geographical areas. I remember reading a long article on one which covered some small US towns where teen girls appeared to have been affected by social contagion through their peers at school. I can't remember what it was all about, but it happened perhaps twenty years ago.

The 2011 Le Roy High School Case nepeta? I realise that’s 10ish not 20ish, but it’s the big one that gets talked about & has been referenced a few times with regard to the Tik-Tok Tics.

There was a dreadful flurry of suicides among teenagers in one area of South Wales a few years back, probably well before social media, but there was definitely a social contagion element to it. Plus of course, there's always The Crucible...

@NitroNine

The 2011 Le Roy High School Case nepeta? I realise that’s 10ish not 20ish, but it’s the big one that gets talked about & has been referenced a few times with regard to the Tik-Tok Tics.

I think that is right. Thank you. There's also the old argument that the Salem witch trial accusations by so many young girls might have had an element of social contagion. But the rye ergot may have affected children more, who knows.

The belief of being made of glass was also a thing at one time.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32625632#:~:text=The%20%22glass%20delusion%22%20is%20an%20extraordinary%20psychiatric%20phenomenon,of%20the%20most%20notable%20sufferers%20of%20glass%20delusion.