How does social media contribute to teenage mental illness?

Mental illness inside Teenager It is increasing. CDC emphasizes the scope of the problem in recent youth risk behavior surveys. Although there were some improvements, a considerable part of the teenager experienced sustainable sadness and despair (53 %). suicide Thinking (18 %) and overall mental health (26 %).

Experts believe that important contribution factors are information that low quality and misleading. Social media。 For example, a 2022 study (Yeung et al.) Examined the 100 most popular people. ADHD In Tiktok’s video, only 21 % of it was useful. 52 % were misleading, and 27 % were based only on personal experience. As a parent of teen youth, I directly witnessed the effects of good, bad, and UG for mental health and social media.

In some ways, exposure to social media is the risk that if you do not actually meet the standards at the time of appropriate evaluation, you can believe that you have various mental illness. On the other hand, social media can support important awareness and advocacy. Self -image and Self -esteemIf a particular mental illness becomes trendy, it is the risk of sticking to various diseases as a whole aspect of the overall identity and development as part of the affinity group. To deal with this issue, you need to be exquisite to verify your real experience and at the same time to confront concerns with concerns.

I was glad to be able to interview Dr. Andrea Gydinggen, a child and puberty psychiatrist. She recently wrote a paper on proposal structures that would help understand the social media effects on mental health when things became fraudulent: SMAAIB (SMAAIB). This framework is an alternative to the previous model, the tone is more neutral, aiming to promote dialogue and identify the problem area instead of pathology.

Grant H. Brenner: How was you interested in social media influence on puberty mental health?

Andrea Guydinhagen: In 2020, I noticed an unusual phenomenon. A young man who has a large amount to my clinic with symptoms that seem to have symptoms by looking at the content related to illness in social media. Before the pandemic, the patient came in and told me about the symptoms. We reached the diagnosis by searching together. Suddenly, they said to me, “I have Tourette Syndrome” or “I have identical disorder of dissection,” and I understand how they have reached it. I was backtracking to do it. Parents usually were concerned that the concerns of tic or DID had suddenly worsened. “I saw it in Tactoku” was a general copy of the patient himself. Everything was pathological. In the class, the fantasy is “dissociated” and tapping the pencil is “”temper。 I set a social media account on some new platforms, but I found that it was also extended RAMP.

GHB: What are “Munchausen’s by Internet” and “Mass Psyper Goenic Insiol”?

AG: MUNCHAUSEN Syndrome is when someone intentionally pretends to be ill and treats, sympathy, or belongs. MUNCHAUSEN’S by Internet (MBI) means that the Internet promotes syndrome. Simply imitating or writing a Twitter posting about your life with a disease you don’t really have is a role of illness to meet emotional needs. If you are equipped with tolet syndrome, post a video that plays a tic. (The teens I saw in 2020 showed a very similar chick, but they were very decent for Tourette syndrome). People can write about fictitious chicks about disability Chronic disease Immediately access the bulletin board and the pouring of support. When you make a diagnosis, you can feel like you are in a long -awaited club.

Large psychogenic diseases (MPIs) are when a clear social group begins to show symptoms of diseases that are not actually held. It happens quickly and unexpectedly. Symptoms such as vomiting and chicks may be somatoholm. Or, psychoam with an indefinite production Psychiatry Symptoms. With the appearance of the Internet, you can convey symptoms across the continent via social media. In the oral chick “beans!” In 2021, the patients of “Tactock” have spread to Europe and the United States like this. In this case, the patient wants to belong by unconsciously creating disability.

GHB: How to derive social media related to social media related to abnormal disease behavior, and why this is a useful reconstruction.

AG: It focuses on the medium and strengthens fate. There is no need to analyze the disease. Smaaib does not suggest that the patient is doing it intentionally, but does not enable it. Patients who confront MUNCHAUSEN patients usually do not work anyway. SMAAIB acknowledges that the body sometimes appears stress Or isolation in the behavior of the disease -Be careful Unconsciousness。 Note And my affiliation feels good. We are social. The label can tell the patient shouting “Beans!” The good news is that they do not have Tourette syndrome. You can find other ways to meet the needs of connection by leaving social media and better stress control. Symptoms decline. SMAAIB patients in my pandemic era were decent mixed mixtures between the MBI and MPI, and the majority simply learned a strategy and returned to school to recover. In other words, cutting from social media and reconnecting in other ways.

GHB: What can parents do in the face of these powerful influencers and piercing groups?

AG: Create a family media plan (including parents). The American Pediatric Academy is wonderful. Specific places and time are telephone zones, such as dinner or bedtime. It is essential to build a connection of real life with community friends and adults. You also need to understand that getting a mobile phone is your parents’ phone. Just use it with the expectation of accessing social media accounts, text, etc. It is balance. If your parents are too authoritative, youth goes behind your back. Too much mental parent keeps teen young people online online. I am worried about how many patients who have an online boyfriend/girlfriend who do not know anything.

Prioritize communication over confiscation. No one dropped a young man in the neighborhood he didn’t know 7 hours a day, and never talked about what happened there. The average teens spend so much time online every day, so don’t do it in virtual spaces. Ask what influencers they follow and who are talking online (ideally, youth should not talk to strangers in their actual life). Teen young people also encounter content like Disturbed diet Suicide online. These are not taboo topics, but it is not a problem that 13 -year -old children need to work alone.

At the end of her paper, Dr. Giedhagen wrote:

“(I) T is essential not only for understanding, but also for enabling recovery, but also providing a description model of a (what type) doctor of SMAAIB. In addition to the discussion of the patient’s model and the negotiations, the environment is understood, understands, and over -the -art, and over -the -world social media. It is indispensable to understand what you are equipped with, then disconnect first, then newly connected: It is inevitable that you (partially) disconnect from social media and pay attention to the behavior of illness. It will be.