Don’t mindlessly affirm children’s identities based on TikTok videos

Published November 1, 2022 6:12pm ET



A growing number of teenagers and children are diagnosing themselves with mental illnesses based on what they see on TikTok. It is a serious problem, and some people are making it worse by just accepting these non-doctors’ self-diagnoses at face value.

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