We Need to Talk about TikTok and Tourette’s
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Not long ago, I started getting tons of videos on my TikTok feed featuring young girls exhibiting what seemed to be involuntary outbursts or “tics” commonly associated with Tourette’s syndrome. I started looking into it and found out Tourette’s-or something like it-seems to be spreading like wildfire among young girls around the world, and the common denominator is TikTok. Do you think TikTok is causing an outbreak of Tourette’s in young girls? Let me know in the comments!
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I have Tourettes. Was diagnosed at 5 years old. Suicide rates for those with Tourettes are very high... and theres a reason for that. Tic attacks are brutal. faking that is jus disgusting.
Yeah, I've heard of people with genuine tics being injured by them. 💕
@@bodine219 Yes. Some of the tics can result in injury.
My son and I both have Tourettes Syndrome.
I stutter so I feel you. I know how debilitating it is to not have control of your body
@@bodine219 My husband’s jaw is permanently damaged from a tic he had as a teen. Tics change, can appear and reappear. He would make a woof sound, punch his jaw in an uppercut, then rub it in over and over. We went to go see about having his teeth repaired from it and they said his upper mandible would need cut in half and reassembled! He did that much damage to his jaw during that time. We were thinking braces…Invisaline…lol. Not major surgery. He never fixed it. His joints are hurting him now, too, from a tic he’s always had of hypertension. He throws his arms and legs out and twists them. Almost looks like someone is pulling on him. It can be brutal to watch.
I will say weed was a Godsend for him. It calmed his tics way down.
@@jessicah4462 I’m glad he found something that helped
I went to college with a girl who claimed to have Tourette’s. She also claimed to be a non binary, trans masc survivor of cancer and carrier of an auto immune disorder, with a peanut allergy, who suffers from asthma, “bleached” eyes, scarred lungs and deformed legs. Suffice to say, she was the biggest bullshitter I’ve ever met and one of life’s biggest victims.
Geez. Yeah I think these people probably have something wrong with them but it’s not the things they claim. They’ve likely got some kind of narcissistic personality disorder.
Sounds like they did not get hugged as a kid.
Well damn... she seems to be the whole package! 🤡🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, when they start listing a bunch of different things like that, you know they're lying. 😂
@@justincase676 Sounds more like they didn't get their asses whooped enough as a kid.
I raised a touretter. He was even against me letting his teachers know. He so desperately wished no one would know. These girls are actually making a mockery of the people who truly suffer from Tourette syndrome.
Evie Meg (the beans girl) actually has tourettes. I think a lot of these kids saw how much fame she got for simply sharing her experience with this medical condition and started replicating her. She spoke out against it too. It's a huge disservice to people like her when others start making it a trend. Same can be said for trans people as well.
The point is, the girls who adopted tics from TikTok aren't faking it at all, or else the cases wouldn't be so high in the recent years, is some type of mass hysteria. But because of social media it can travel all over the world instead of staying only between groups of peoples just like the cases presented in the video.
I would argue trans women would be synonymous with people faking tic, whereas biological women would be people who really have tourrettes.
Yeah I was a little hurt when she popped up. She’s genuinely struggling
I love Evie so much.❤
I was sad to see her as an example. I love Evie.
No way are all of them legit truthful, tourettes is rare, and extreme tourettes to this level is extremely rare.
Just like DID. There are soooooo many people claiming to have DID but it's extremely rare. At least half of them must be lying lol
@@gabrielamarcano453 I'd say 98% of them are lying!
Tourette’s is common in ages 6-40, young and older is rare
I've only known I think one guy in my life who had this and apparently if he drank a few pints of beer it settled down. Nice remedy to an awful condition.
My mom used to say, "if you don't stop making that face - you're face is going to get stuck like that". Which I'm sure is probably not true (just look at Jim Carrey) but it might be true that if you keep acting a certain way - it could possibly "stick".
My ex girlfriend was like this, 8+ hours of tik tok a day, “tics” that would conveniently go away when they would be destructive to whatever actions we were doing, not doing them when I was around, seemingly for attention (I would leave the room sometimes when she would start “ticing” and listen near the door or peek in and watch to see if she kept doing them and she would be totally fine, resuming once I came back in) narcissism and self importance is becoming the real rampant disorder of our generation
I don't know your girl friends story, but touretttets is a neurological syndrome and the tics are usually caused by feelings or emotions. I tick when I am pissed and only psyco and sociopaths do it to me, my son tics when he lies, under emotional distress, imaging growing up in a family of six and never once getting away with saying, "I didn't do it". Maybe your old girl friend felt uncomfortable around you? Now do I believe all these girls, absolutely not, you see any true touretttets sufferer under doctors care have learned to control or manage it best they can, no one else sees our touretttets unless we want them to, the vast majority of the time. In my quest to understand our health problems I have talked with a lot of people, I met both a doctor and a pilot with the worst cases of touretttets I had ever seen, but once behind the plane controls or scalpel in hand, steady as can be, they were in their happy place, no touretttets, absolutely amazing, however I am not picking on you, as I said 26 disabilities, I spend most of my life in pain, I don't understand why so many people want to identify as disabled, I have spent the last 4 years trying to put the worst disability into remission so I can have a life again. So I am with you on that, be careful what you ask for, you might get what you don't need. Oh, I don't know what bullshit they are trying to pull, but I worked for 50 years with my touretttets, it took a whole lot more than that to take this old b*tch out of service. Interesting other fact, there is a lot more to touretttets than the tics and cussing, tons of other symptoms and medical problems and yet I didn't hear one of these girls mention one other of those symptoms, seems pretty fishy to me. The way to tell if someone is really disabled? They won't go on and on about it, they are far more sick of it than you are. In case your interested, my doctors said I had one of the most advanced cases he had seen in a woman, but because of my own self dillegence, I didn't need him, then three years ago woke psycopath and sociopaths came out and I have been cussing like a drunken truck driver, with 5 flats stuck on a snowy freeway pass, with two dead hookers in the cab and a highway patrol officer pulling up on my rear, lights a blaze, sirens screaming, if your girlfriend really was a psyco, give her one more call, and ask her to tell her friends to shut up, man what a bunch of babies, a real disability would probably kill them.
Run
And a COLOSSAL lack of self awareness
Sweet Anita
ughhhh that just disgusts me it’s so attention seeking like there’s other HEALTHIER ways to attract attention sports, art, etc.
My daughter tried to pull this off. I shut that down. Not in my house. She has come up with a new disorder since she was about 12, she is 22 now. She is getting better but this hypocondria in our society is out of control. Social media!!!🤨😳😵💫
How did you manage the situation when she was a teenager?
thats not hypocondria but another disorder is out of control (I cant remember the name right now)
This is why I'm put off sending my child to regular school
@Luana Astralis I'm pretty sure it's hypochondria because you call a person that thinks and acts like they have a disorder or sickness or affliction, a hypochondriac
Could also be a bit of Munchhausen syndrome…
ADHD is everywhere now. I don’t tell people I have it because I don’t want them to think I’m trying to be trendy. I also don’t tell people I’m bipolar or have CPTSD. Nowadays it just screams “feel sorry for me” and I don’t want that.
When people truly have disorders we hide it. If someones going around telling everyone they have a disorder i usually dont believe them.
Thats not a reason to not be open about it in helpful context
I have aids. I don’t tell my partners. They get pretty pissed when they find out so I just don’t say anything
@@TellURide447 they get pissed? That you have aids? Who are these people and may Thor strike them down
Same... it actually made me postpone the evaluation for ADHD because of the same reason. I felt like I was faking it and it is not that bad, and these days everyone is claiming to have it, no one is going to believe me... In the end, when things got out of control, I got tested but still believed that I dont have it. When the psychologist showed me my diagram of function and explained that there is a functional impairment it felt like a cold chill down my back. A reality shock. I have been working on targeting my flaws and disadvantages and trying to minimize them, especially at work. Therapy, medicine I am open for everything, I want to be better, I wish I didnt have it. I am also aware that my children are going to have increased risk for ADHD as well. It terrifies me. If that happens I swear to god I would help them from the beginning.
I still dont tell that to other people, besides close friends and of course my partner. It seems that the purpose of this "mental illness acceptance movement" had a quite contrary effect...
I think you found the answer- “millions and millions of likes”. The real condition is pervasive self importance. Notice how despite their “tics” their make up is impeccable.
Yeah the tics stayed off long enough for them to create the perfect winged liner! Convenient! 😅
narcissism is rampant in this generation....
@@basementdwellers2231 hello, no six words were ever as powerful or true as yours. Touche!!!!
😂🤣😭 so true!
YEESS!! That was one of my first thoughts too!
There's been several instances of people romanticizing/popularizing mental disorders. Today it's tic disorders. Last year it was dissociative identity disorder (DID) because it's easy to "create multiple characters" for a TikTok skit. In the 2010s, depression was the romanticized mental illness of the time. I think tic disorders are more adoptable and are being recorded, and that's why the problem has arisen now
To summarize: Clout chasing!
Agreed.
Remember when girls were emulating eating disorders in the 90s because some stars were doing it in shows?
This is the same thing, just wish more people could see it for what it is.
@@VariantAEC That's still a thing you have sites and forums where they encourage each other into anorexia. And compliment each other on how skinny they are getting. It's a different kind of clout
“Tik”Tok? 🧐
@@blakasmurf
Not as common as it used to be. Girls at least found healthier disorders to emulate.
watching this in 2023 and im seeing a lot of corrolation with the autism, adhd, trans, non-binary epidemic right now. I've recently got rid of tik tok and only watch youtube channels like Amala, Blare White, Rachel Maksy, and a few others (limiting my internet time a day) and have seen a massive decrease in my anxiety, depression and connection to reality. its truly facinating. I thought for the last 6 months to a year that all of my issues were autism or adhd, but it turns out it was tik tok.
** disconnection to reality**
My friend is chronically online, like 11 hours a day, has autism and just came out as trans. I wonder why..
I'm so proud of you for actually realizing this and making a change in your life. Like, so proud. I know so many people who think they have all these problems and they take all these medications for them and I'm just thinking, "Get to the ROOT of the problem, my friend..."
Well done.
Thank you for speaking up about this. The same thing is happening with teenage girls claiming they are trans or non-binary.
Exactly. Like anorexia and bulimia in the 80s and 90s.
This is so frustrating, bec Tourette’s is no joke! My little bro has Tourette’s and he hates every part of it. When he was younger he would cry and literally rip out his hair bec he was so frustrated that his tics disrupted his speech and actions. And he was bullied in school. Thank God his drs figured out that IVIG infusions help him so he gets one every year and his tics calm down. But my family will never forget those miserable years, watching my amazing brother develop low self esteem and break down crying every day
this is hearbreaking; so sorry your brother has to go through this. glad he seems to have an awesome support group/family!!
poor baby :( glad he is doing better
Thank you for this!!! It is truly something people suffer through. I don't know anyone who truly has Tourette's who would make a video about it for fame or fortune, we just want it gone. I'm so glad your brother found a therapeutic.
I was in theatre in high school about a year and I half ago. I was backstage for tech week and was gonna go on in a scene or two. I began having a massive tic attack backstage and was bawling my eyes out. It freaking sucked, man, lemme tell you. They not only feel icky, but sometimes they hurt, if they’re severe enough. I completely understand how that feels.
True! My tics are getting worse every year and I was diagnosed at 15. I take medication and it can be horrible
My sister does this fake tourette's thing. We try talking to her but she's stubborn. She also has a problem with social media; she got her phone taken away once and so she ran to the neighbors house and called the cops saying "she didn't feel safe" anyway it wouldn't surprise me infact I was thinking the same thing but about social media.
Oi, she's going to make it an actual habit. I've done that with certain noises or words when I was younger. Voluntarily causing issues where they didn't exist before.🤦♀️
Did the cops show up? If they did I can only imagine them being angry at her for waisting their time
@@MaraJadeSkky same. I started biting my nails as a kid (seems harmless, right?) and now it evolved into a pretty bad case of 'body-focused' ocd 😓
@@littlelady9801 oh man, I can relate. I have dermatillomania (compulsive skin picking) and trichotillomania (compulsive hair pulling). Both started as a child using unhealthy coping habits, now I'm in my 30s and can't completely stop. I can for a period of time, but stress induces it. Probably would have helped if my parents realized it was the result of a traumatic event when I was 4 and I desperately needed to be taught healthy coping skills.
I hope she had some sort of consequences for wasting the time and energy of the police and tax payers' money.🤞 But then again, people get away with perjury, false accusations and worse every single day. If there were actual consequences people would atleast think twice before doing it.
I know this is a year old, but as someone with a “not cool/sexy/cute” form of Tourette’s I was diagnosed with 20 years ago (yawning tic is the best way I can describe it, as well as what I call “hard blinks”, all super embarrassing,) I’ve had a particular hatred toward people faking Tourette’s. It’s not fun, quirky, or a personality trait.
Also, I would never record myself and post a video if I had any tics while filming.
My younger sister (21) asked me a while ago if I thought she had Turretts. I had no idea what it was, because I seem to be the only person I know without TikTok. She showed me a couple videos, and I told her that in my completely nonprofessional opinion, my sister has never had Turretts. However, my sister adopts ticks. Has ever since she was little. I had to deal with her having the ticks she saw on TikTok for weeks. Luckilly, she began reading books more and watching different things on TikTok and now she is back to her normalicy.
While some of these girls might genuinely have neurological issues, I'd venture to say most filming for TikTok are either deliberately faking or, to use an old fashioned term, it's all in their heads. Really sad.
I believe it's a form of social hypnosis.
Monkey see monkey do!
I would say near 99%
I am the girl in the first vid. I have been ticcing for over 6 years and have proven my diagnosis of tourettes.
You need to learn to shut up about topics you clearly don't understand, and prageru should do the same.
I saw only one of them that I knew for sure wasn’t faking it, but the rest are I’m sure lol
2000s-2010s: romanticizing and mass social contagion of depression, anxiety, eating disorders
Now: romanticizing and mass social contagion of DID, Tourettes, transgenderism
These things are not new. Abigail Shrier talks about examples of this among young women as far back as the early 1900s in her book Irreversible Damage.
In the middle ages, they had a dancing mania/plague that caused many people to dance until they collapsed and then once they had enough energy they started dancing again. I think this is just the newest version. It's a very interesting topic to study though.
That's exactly what this made me think of, too!
@@melzoramills2579 Yep. This is the modern St. Vitus dance.
Also in the middle ages, every women (probably some men too, idk) wanted to get tuberculosis, because it made them look so frail and pale.
Also, the women wanted to blacken their teeth since the queen (at the time) had bad teeth and they were rotten.
Yo, every century/millenium have such trends that are life threatening, or downright wrong.
I don't think eating disorders is in the same vein. I suffered with anorexia throughoutthe 2010s because of my ADHD medication. I take 70mg of Vyvanse and 2mg of intunive. They make you see food as disgusting, and because I was so skinny then, when I look down and see any flab on my body, even though I'm not fat, I automatically think about how fat or ugly I am. Part of that is due to how skinny the actresses and models and celeberties were when I was young, I think. As a kid (born in 1997) I was exposed to the idea that you HAD to be skinny as a rail and have no fat on your body. It isn't healthy. I'm almost positive that's where the eating disorders came from. A lot of yong girls, like me, were told that fat is bad and therefore somehow developed a fear of becoming fat, even if they were far from being fat. It's actually very genuinly concerning. It's like this in many countries, though.
As someone who has ADD and is part of Gen Z, it's kind of humiliating whenever I have to talk about it with friends or teachers. If I tell them they probably will think I'm just being a pick-me girl, honestly it sucks.
Yeah ik I hate it! I have ocd and tourettes and it just hurts like hell
When we were little kids, I had a step brother who had touretts and he suffered so much pain from constantly clicking his neck and jaw. It this was 15-20 years ago and it wasn't too well understood which didn't help. He was bullied so much. Seeing these people so clearly putting it on for attention and sympathy is just bizarre.
My daughter has facial tics....and I have spent countless hours massaging her face and neck just to help relax her muscles. It's so sad and honestly, makes me mad, that these kids are finding this funny, and using this for likes.
I would add a new disorder to the DSM: Social Media-Peer-Distortive-Aquired Syndrome
😆
They can put it right next to Factitious Disorder
I think this is also why we’re seeing such a rise in people identifying as trans these days 😔
To many people suddenly wanting to be special and have to have to be noticed.
We've been totally ignoring our young men for a while, but I'm increasingly concerned with young women -- especially in the 11-18 range. They are suddenly taking on the disorders that typically present in young boys. As with ROGD (Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria), so too with this.
It's good more doctors have finally noticed it. The _worst_ offender in this category _was_ faking and is no longer on the platform, but she pioneered a 'tic' that several doctors remarked on (though all were shouted down at the time): girls presenting with an atypical Tourette's-like disorder who, for some reason, shout, "Beans!", as one of their tics.
Girls on the Edge and Boys Adrift by Dr. Leonard Sax are great books if you want to know more about how society has been failing young people. The problems of girls and boys appear very different, but most have the same core causes. If you're a parent, I recommend them whether you find the topic interesting or not.
I have Tourettes. I'm in my 40's. This is disgusting. Those with tics for real go out of their way to hide them. Plus mostly they're not that dramatic or obvious for most with Tourettes. Yet everyone of these biomass rejects just happens to have the worst type of tics out there. Insanity but we live in an insane world.
The brain is a powerful organ. I took 4 biology courses and 2 psychology courses in college 10 years ago (as electives) to understand myself more. Its strange how the brain can cause physical symptoms if you are convinced enough you are sick. Now being sick (mentally or physically) is trendy and I think it is a VERY dangerous trend.
You're referencing what's called Bio Feedback. You can actually convince your brain you're having certain symptoms and really develop these symptoms. It's typically seen with flu symptoms, gastrointestinal upset, panic/anxiety. Bio Feedback has always been a intriguing topic to me and is truly a testament to the wonders our brain is capable of and the secrets we've yet to uncover or understand.
@@megannoe2057 Don't forget phantom pregnancy too. That's another very interesting phenomenon.
I actually have Tourette’s. Diagnosed by a real neurologist back in the 90s at age 11. When I watch videos of people experiencing tics, or if I even think about my own tics, they get way worse. I even have to avoid seeing people tic because I can and have developed “copycat” tics (for lack of better word). I believe some girls are seeing it in videos so much that they are developing tea tics. That doesn’t mean they suddenly have Tourette’s Syndrome. I can also tell when tics are being faked… and most of the TikToks I’ve seen on this subject are obviously fake.
My daughter was diagnosed with Tourette's when she was 7. It runs in my family. She's been seeing these videos and she hates it because, she can also tell when people are faking it. She's gotten upset saying, if they ever had to actually deal with what she does, they would want it to be gone so fast!
I hate that kids are thinking this is "cool" or "funny" to do!
Yes! I remember having copy tics when I was little, because my dad had some tics (without having tourettes). It was so annoying and I get stressed out even now just thinking about it, because just thinking about it makes it want to come back. So when I see this i think the same thing as you, maybe people are watching this and experiencing the same thing as I did
My friend's daughter developed tourette's 2 years ago at 16. She was actively following the TicTok pages and truly developed the condition. The doctors are recognizing the common source. She herself agrees that TicTok has "triggered" it in her and she now warns parents about letting their children use the platform. She is now 18 and unable to drive due to the severity. She is trying to do college but it's a big struggle. It's so sad.
I hope she'll get better
That’s not how tics work.
@@aliahpersonous2893 Actually...It can happens, really rare, but it can
Seeing other tics may trigger yours
Do you really believe tics are contagious?
@@Bexstarartist Have you ever had two people with tourette's in the same room. They tic off each other and make each other worse. But I think your questions is about tics sporadically starting in someone without any prior history, kind of like a social contagion. If that is your question, then yes I do believe they can be contagious. Most people aren't suspetable, however my friend's daughter is the prime example of someone who "caught tics" from TicTok. I thought it was crazy when I first heard, but there are so many girls it has happened to that I don't believe it is a coincidence. Thankfully with time her tics are getting better. Likely she will move on from them all together. This is not something that happens with actual tourettes, but just the new social contagion type.
I deal with this kind of thing a lot IRL (I have manic bipolar disorder). Every time the subject gets brought up in conversation, I have people telling me they swear they have it because they "feel sad", and they go around telling people they have it even though they have never been diagnosed and admit as much. It's disrespectful and irritating...
This seems like a classic case of an Adolescent wanting to seem cool. So they play out a lie that makes them feel special. This is on a global scale though. Pretty scary.
Its mostly western countries. In third world countries mental illness and disability is severely looked down upon and discriminated so i highly doubt someone would fake it there to be “cool” or “special.”
@@zaziorambero1179 depends how engulfed in online western media they are. Some kids seem to think media IS life and that's all that matters to them. It's why when something dangerous happens and someone is being hurt they all start videoing and laughing instead of getting help/helping or getting away from the danger.
As someone who has lived with Tourette's for 30 years... Im actually offended by the "wannabes."
I do, however, believe that people are developing "Tourette's-like" symptoms, due to brain strain from devices, trends, the need for validation, etc.
I feel like with the rise in autism and the rise in genetic mutations there is definitely a good chance of there being a rise in tourettes but I really do not appreciate the exploitation of this condition because my kids develop this at a very very young age and here they are at 10 years old and 8 years old they have very minor texts you can barely even tell that they have full-blown to rats because their ticks are minor and that's usually what tourette's looks like not like this this is a very rare look of turrets and this is why the cursing tourette's got so popular because people would use that and exploit it back in a day and here we are doing it again with this whatever it is. I do not appreciate people who fake tourette's it makes it harder for those who do have it.
@@DeadlyCyanide1 to rats lol
It’s not quite the same thing but I have severe body dysmorphic disorder . Like I’ve been diagnosed. I can’t even leave my house for fear of being seen. Almost every girl online claims to have BDD. They just toss the disorder around . And I get I’m not the standard for sickness, but still . It’s so offensive to me.
@@j5110 Im sorry you are going through that, but Im happy that you're honest about it. It means you are working on healing and being more comfortable!
I completely agree. It’s when people like these start doing this for attention that people who actually suffer from these things are looked at as attention seekers just as much as the fakes.
I think the same can be said for anxiety. When so many people constantly talk about how they don't feel safe or at ease, of course it makes the people around them start to feel the same way. We need to be a little more guarded about who we burden our issues with.
Evie Meg has addressed this, that she's afraid she has influenced all of these people to fake tourettes. I believe Evie Meg is not faking and have read the book she wrote about her life. It's just so weird to me to see other people wanting to mimic disabilities for likes. It's disturbing.
Funny you should say that, bc evie meg is friends with a lot of people show in this vid, myself included.
No different then the trans, pans ect....going on with these younger people. Fads use to be bell bottom jeans, platform shoes. Vans, big hair. This is insane the way younger people copy as if a small child or monkey. This is what happens when you raise weak minded younger people by giving them everything, and not letting them fall and get back up. Sad
Bell bottoms are coming back!!! Hallelujah!!
Yep, I'm at the point where I'm advocating for all social media platforms and smartphones need to be nuked off the face of the planet!! All of this is a DIRECT RESULT of social media, this 💩 has gone waaaaaaaaayyy too far and we need to put a stop to it right now! Parents, for the love of God, keep your kids off of social media!!!
I think this is even worse because this is a very real condition that's being, in a sense, appropriated and turned into a scheme for being "different" and "special" amongst teenage girls
The difference is that schools, big pharma, and Doctors are all in on transgenderism and contributing to the epidemic.
Fads?
I had a little sister with disability. I angers me when people who arent actually sick pretend or make them selves disabled. When I'm a 100 sure my sister would have loved to have been able to dance and sing and speak her mind. This I have no idea if its real or fake but its a weird trend
Everyone trying to outdo themselves on the disabled victimhood train. NOT sorry for them OR impressed. The only disabled people I admire are the ones who excel and take themselves as far as they can to reach their full potential without drawing attention to themselves! Beggars on the street and these tiktok trenders are nothing but ridiculous!
I have epilepsy, and awhile back on tik tok, kids were doing a “seizure challenge” where they would see who could fake the “best seizure.” They’d all take epilepsy as a joke when people like myself struggle with it daily, some even lose their lives due to it. It was beyond disheartening and frustrating. Now, I see this, and my heart breaks for those who actually truly suffer from Tourette’s. I have a neurological movement disorder called Dystonia (a rare disorder), and I know first hand how frustrating and debilitating not being able to control your movements is, and I also know how dangerous it can be. I’ve dislocated joints, sprained my hands and wrists, taken dangerous falls, all because my body moves however it wants to without my control. I’d be livid if I were to see people taking my very real and horrible disorder and turning it into a joke for views and likes. It seriously baffles me. Good health is often something that is taken for granted, and people don’t truly understand this until their health is taken from them. 😢
That sounds absolutely awful. I know two people with epilepsy and it absolutely disgusts me that people would fake seizures like that. From what I've been told, seizures are scary and can even make you stop breathing.
I've also heard about people making fun of autism on TikTok, which really hit home for me because I'm autistic myself. They faked meltdowns (which are very real and often are the result of sensory overload) and they flapped their arms around to make fun of autistic people stimming. They called it the Autism Challenge (as we didn't have enough of a stigma already).
I'm not sure why people do things like this. Maybe it's for attention. Maybe they want to make people laugh. I don't know. But it needs to stop. People who actually have these disorders are having a harder time getting diagnosed and treated because doctors have seen these TikToks and are no longer taking people seriously.
I have epilepsy too and I don’t think people realize that even if you don’t have a tonic clonic seizure everyday you can still have absence seizure, deal with memory lose and other symptoms. Also the constant everyday anxiety thinking “what if it happens now” all the time everyday. I’m scared to be alone, I’m scared to take showers because it has triggered it before. I can’t drive, swim, be alone for long periods of time, lock the bathroom door, go to the movies, go to concerts, your whole family also have to deal with anxiety because they are worried about something happening to you. Feeling like a burden to everyone in your life. I’m also pregnant now and deal and at bigger risk for miscarriage or accidentally hurting myself while having body twitches or falling during a seizure.
So needless to say, not having control of your body is so awful I wouldn’t wish this upon anyone. I can’t imagine someone “faking it” or wishing they had a disorder like this just taking it as a joke. It’s so insulting to everyone affected by it.
Wtf that is so messed up. My friend has epilepsy and has had seizures around me, and it’s so scary for her (and her friends)
I'm female and was diagnosed with Tourettes 15 years ago by a neurologist. I keep away from these videos on tiktok because I think it's mass hysteria and Tourettes support groups are full of people with the tics. There's patterns emerging that are only a recent thing in tics that I believe are FND and not Tourettes as there was little mention of them years ago
Tik tok has made it so that every 6-12 months everyone has some disorder, SMH
Someone needs to shut down the word wide internet for a while...
When I was a teenager, a guy I liked had OCD and I had OCD tendencies anyway, but when I started liking him my OCD became so extreme so quickly that from 14 I showed no outward symptoms (I still had the symptoms like having to fold things properly or chewing food an equal amount on both sides of my mouth) and within 6 months I had severe symptoms that would cause me horrific panic attacks. It’s crazy how easily influenced our brains are at such an age and it will always happen, it’s just that with social media the mass hysteria is global, not just localised to one community or even one country. I imagine that COVID 19 gave a lot of people OCD tendencies like washing their hands after touching things and making sure they take hand gel and masks with them, not being able to leave the house unless they had completed these rituals. I know that the pandemic was a test for me and that lots of my friends and family started to develop these symptoms. Tics and OCD go together like peas in a pod. You have an uncomfortable feeling, you do a ritual, the uncomfortable feeling goes away. Tics are the ritual and they are a compulsion, where once you feel the urge it’s hard to ignore it. So if people developed OCD tendencies throughout the pandemic then maybe they were more susceptible to picking up this disorder.
I am so glad I’m not a teenager in this day and age. I’m only 24 myself but I think I grew up just in time to skip all of this crazy shit. If I was a teenager now, I would 100% have come out as transgender and would easily have picked up these kinds of disorders. I have tics anyway because of having OCD and ADHD - just muscle clenching and fidgeting by wiggling my toes and fingers and things - so I can see how easy it is to fall down these rabbit holes when you’re already predisposed to these kinds of disorders.
Woah I have FND and OCD tendencies and I never thought about that. Thats actually pretty helpful. I'm trying really hard to combat the OCD tendencies and maybe in doing so the FND will go away. I don't really have Tics like these girls do. I have FND more in the sense that It used to be known as which is random paralysis flares caused by stressful events, but even so hopefully trying to treat the OCD tendencies will help🤞
True story: My 13 year old sister start following this trend when it came out last year, one slap and sis is tick free ever since. 🤣💀
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Mental illness and trauma has become a contest. We all, apart from gender, race, and sexuality, live very privileged lives in the US, and it’s the mentality that dealing with hard things makes you a more important or influential person that is becoming so huge. It’s a one up sort of thing, and if it’s not that, it’s a community thing. Young people are going through pivotal things and learning who they are as people, and it’s so much easier to accept those negative and traumatic feelings than actually process them and grow into functional people in society. It’s so sad to witness, and realize you’re a part of. It’s something we all take part in to a certain degree, it does depend on awareness though.
There was an episode of Legion that started with a cheerleader developing a tik and then it slowly spread to her friends. Ideas are contagious
Like Regina George with the bra cutouts in her gym tank 😂
@@dsparr1010 this 😂😂😂
Legion? Weird name. Also the name of the demons that Jesus commanded out of the man and into the herd of pigs.
And there were many demons-hence-the name legion
I have tics, I started noticing them a few years ago (before tiktok was super popular) My most common tics are eye movement and small throat sounds like humming. Because of this they weren’t super noticeable. Durning Covid they got worse, which I believe was due to stress. I was on meds for a while and now it’s pretty much back to normal. But because my tics are easy to miss, my parents seems to think it was a phase bc of the tiktok thing. It’s annoying that bcs so many people on tiktok fake/over exaggerated tics, mine aren’t taken as seriously:\
I also feel bad for the tiktok creators who actually have tics and we’re just trying to spread awareness, who are now being blamed for all this
The 2nd girl that you showed, she actually has tourettes. She doesn't do any of the stupid videos, she literally just educates people on tourettes. She's a pretty cool girl
These kids don't know what a real disability is like. I have brain damage from when I stopped breathing for over 5 minutes as a baby. Thank God my mom came back to check on me before she went to bed and got me breathing again. My husband thinks it's cute and amusing that I will sometimes wonder around the house lost, that I will unconsciously repeat things, I have to write things down just to remember them for later or that before I can clean my house I have to set down to write a step by step list to just get it done. To me no this is not cute or amusing it is frustrating and depressing. To me these kids are just having fun playing a role for attention and not understanding the true struggles of people who really have to deal with these struggles every minute of every day.
10000% agree. I have a speech impediment, it is NOT cute.
I have tourettes and was the latest diagnosis my neurologist had seen at 14. That was 13 years ago. My first documented tics were at 1 though. I did the "Elvis lip" over and over at my birthday party lol. Also years of eye doctors because my parents had no idea why I blinked so hard lol. My tics drastically increased at 14 because of starting adhd medication the year prior and because of the stress of high school. Before diagnosis I thought it was totally normal for bodies to move randomly especially when tired. My tics are so mild now that people I spend loads of time with for years actively have no idea until it comes up in conversation. It can cause me so much pain in a day but rarely affects my day to day life in the way these girls show. Tics this bad as an adult were super rare. Every once in a while they'll get bad and I'll have a tic attack and that's extremely violent and painful. I look like I have been in a fight after. They are mildly controllable as in on a super bad day (like once a year) I can wait to hit myself till I run to the bathroom since I don't want my kids to see. Or I can gasp quietly vs loudly. Although the more I control them it feels like a pressure is building and the cap needs to come off sometime. Usually something physically irritating (like stepping in something sticky lol) will be the thing that releases the cap and then I'll have a tic attack. It's now been 4 years since I've had a full blown tic attack.
I wonder if it's more of a mental thing then since you're able to control it around your kids. Not down playing, just trying to understand.
@@tazmaniandiva7762 My husband can suppress the tics for a short time, also. He eventually needs to release and when he does it’s as though they come on with a vengeance! He’s described it in the exact same way to me before, like a cap coming off. His increased in intensity when he approached puberty. He’s 40, I’ve known him since he was 12. We grew up next door to each other. His got much better with weed and age. He still has them, but I also don’t ever notice them anymore unless he gets a new one. When he gets really excited about something, though, they do get uncontrollable and noticeable. But, yes, he can suppress them to a point, but I can always tell when he is doing that because it still comes out in other ways. He will play with and twist his fingers in different ways, or hyperextend his limbs, or lightly woof with his voice and try to cover it with a cough. To someone else that doesn’t know him they may not notice. Or, just think he’s nervous. He also has trichotillomania, where he pulls out facial hairs one by one. When he can’t tic he will do that. So it still comes out, just not the selected tic that was pre-chosen, if that makes sense.
Amazing how many girls increased having tourettes after finding out that Billie Eilish had it.
@@jessicah4462 that makes alot of sense, thank you for sharing and helping me understand. 😊
@@lilpinksliplee7310 right!
I'm going to accuse these people of faking it because they are. I was a family caregiver to a cousin with actual TS. These people are disgusting.
Having a mental illness has become a popularity contest these days. A lot of them who weren't struggling with anything at all are now having all sorts of issues just by watching other people's TikTok. Social media is literally creating mental health problems. It's the same phenomenon that occurs when people read about diseases and their symptoms. And because they recognize some symptoms within themselves they start to believe they have them too, and they are going to act accordingly and as a result they are feeling worse and worse. The biggest cause of most mental health problems these days can be traced back to the fact that we taking ourselves way too seriously these days. It is the psychology of subjective individualism on steroids. The behavior and belief that objective reality no longer exists and that all that matters is your subjective feeling about something. Social media has played a major role in this. It has made everyone a little celebrity.
"Whoever knows how all fame comes, will also be suspicious of the glory which this virtue enjoys." - Nietzsche
I'm not saying mental health problems don't exist I just think it became worse due to social media.
I appreciate the fact that you're taking a serious approach to a serious issue and not just reacting to "TikTok cringe" as other creators have done. If people want to blame someone for this, I would go directly to unsupervised use of social media, and that's the parents responsibility. However, knowing there are many things happening on social media nowadays it is understandable that parents are not always going to be aware of everything that's going on there. So in second place I would held accountable every adult influencer who glamorizes mental illness just to gain followers. Even worse, the ones who encourage self diagnosis. These adults are the ones who should realize that having a diagnosis doesn't make you an expert on it. I have ASD myself and sometimes I don't know if what's getting in my way are symptoms of ASD or just the lack of motivation to get better. It's not the same for everyone and only your psychiatrist can tell you what's your specific situation.
That is very true. I have Borderline Personality Disorder, and my experiences with this disorder can be extremely different to someone else’s experiences with it. Thus, I can’t say I know everything about BPD. However, my disorder has been heavily stigmatized by not just society but even therapists and medical professionals. What I’ve been told isn’t even true, and they are generalizations such as “you’re abusive” and “you’re manipulative” and “you’re unhelpable” without ever sitting down to talk to me or individuals like me. Plus, there’s many statistics proving all of these claims to be false. So in other words, professionals do not always know everything either. However, that doesn’t mean I as a person do.
I appreciate the research you did for this vid. I've seen a couple other vids about people faking Tourettes, but none of them have been as sophisticated as this.
I'm an epileptic since age 8 (now I'm 52,legally disabled, unable to drive,work) so I found this infuriating! I was able to work around age 30 yrs old. I waited on a customer who was honestly a Tourretts patient. She was pregnant and having contractions (anyone w a true neurological disorder knows physical/mental stress is a huge factor in increased activity/issues). This woman pulled me aside and explained, but just looking at her I recognized an issue. The way she acted was so different from these crazy people on the internet! The poor woman would have a word slip out, almost like she was trying to stop it yet couldn't. I rushed to get the product she was buying and brought her around to the register. There was another customer (a young black man) looking at something in the jewelry case. The lady was standing right next to him and she looked so frantic, and as I waited on her she mumbled,
"effing n*****"" and looked horrified and immediately said, :I'm SOO sorry!" to him. I saw her extreme anxiety, hurried up and finished so she could leave. I quickly explained to the man the issue as he looked shocked, and he was so nice and understanding! The same lady came in a couple of other times after that and came straight to me. She didn't always use swear words. So to think of people being recognized and awarded for bringing these issues to light is not only disturbing but disgusting for those of us who truly SUFFER from something completely out of our control!! 😡
Agreed. My daughter is an epileptic & also can’t drive. Watching these videos of people faking disorders is infuriating
I'm a teenager with FND. I've had it for many years now, and I was frustrated to tears by this video. Amala didn't do a very good job explaining what really happens when you have FND. I was diagnosed because I go paralyzed randomly, or could lose any of my senses at any time. I cant drive or work and school is a real struggle, but I'm making due. To hear people say they wish they had FND... I just kinda cracked. I completely agree with your comment.
@Carolyn_Cannon I'm so sorry you're going through this. Neurological disorders are difficult for anyone, but especially hard for preteens and teens, bc you have the added issues of hormones changing. But a piece of advice...always keep a diary of anything g that triggers and be aware that anytime your body can go through hormonal changes, such as pregnancy, periods, menopause, this will likely effect your issue. So definitely be aware of possible changes to your Neurological disorder. Praying you find a great neurologist and treatment! You can do this! Reach out to support groups as well, so you don't feel so alone! 💖🙏
60 minutes Australia made a short docu on this. I think the title is "The medical mystery linking TikTok to an explosion of severe tics in teens"
It’s just attention seeking. Not understanding why you won’t call this what it is - fake.
Never underestimate how motivating clout chasing can be! 🤣
Because just screaming "FAKE FAKE!" "PITCHFORKS!" out into the void brings literally nothing to the table.
I think it's because a lot of the girls who manifest the symptoms don't actually do it on purpose. (They certainly wouldn't be admitting it just "started one day" and they don't know how to stop if it were -- that's counter to the image they want to project.) It is worth pointing out that while I venture _most_ of the TikTokers are actively putting it on (though maybe for so long it's now habit), the girls being _affected_ aren't always faking. Like a hysterical pregnancy, the symptoms are real, even if the pregnancy is in their head.
You can't help even the girls who _want_ help if you insist that they're faking it if they aren't. But they can be helped by learning about functional disorders, how they sometimes start, and what can be done to stop them.
I can’t say it’s real for everyone but it was real for me. I started seeing more and more tic and Tourette’s content on TikToc and I then started to develop tics whenever I was anxious. After some time I deleted TikToc and started managing my anxiety better and gradually, without me even noticing for a while my tics disappeared. Now I only have them very rarely when I little bouts of social anxiety when I’m out, but it definitely has something to do with people being exposed to it through social media
The worst period of my life was with the first peak of tics. My life was terrible at this point and I thought my tics were my fault. I would fight all the time with my mom that said stuff like "all you need is to turn of your tics" or "you sound like a dying animal, you are not presentable to the whole world". Girls like that faking it for attention put me in a rage. They just don't understand that they put other girls with actual tics like me in a position where people think i'm faking it.
Sometime i'm just tired of the internet.
I had a kind of similar thing happen to me as a kid. My family was watching a show with a character who stuttered, and a couple seasons into the show I started stuttering too. I hated it, and I wanted to stop, but it wasn’t something I could control. I had to deal with the stutter for about a year after finishing the show. It just slowly faded away over time. I’m sure my ADHD (and/or) anxiety somehow played a part in me subconsciously copying the character and developing the stutter. 🤷🏼♀️
That's actually very common childhood ticks is an extremely common condition but if it lasts for longer than a year that's when they call it tourette's. Both of my kids have had tourettes from the age of about four and six years old and now they are eight and 10 going on 11 and they still have tourettes. This is quite normal and eventually they will grow out of it because you can grow out of tarot's most of the time it's a movement disorder it's a verbal and physical movement disorder and that's perfectly normal especially for a kid to have a tic issue for less than a year. A very rare form of tourette's is cursing or severe movements to the point of hitting yourself that's extremely rare and for so many people to do it I'm not 100% sure or 100% convinced that they actually have tourettes. My kids neurologist said all of this to me. Terence is a very weird condition but it's also very rare it's not a very common condition, the very common condition is childhood ticks and like I said that does not last for any longer than a year.
It's called TIK tok for a reason
HOLY SHIT!!!
TIC TALK!
My mind went right to “What About Bob?”. “If you fake It you don’t have it!” His “tic” involved a string of foul language and I think Americans have begun to have that same tic! Seriously, truly disabled people deserve so much respect and support for dealing with the things they do. And parents need to talk to their children about supporting other children with disabilities.
I'm 26 now. When I was in 3rd grade my school's psychologist claimed I had ADHD. My parents told them no and left me to be myself. I was a very respectful kid and my parents raise me right, so it didn't effect others. Now I have a bachelors degree and work for a data/survey company. I have also started my own small business creating and selling clothing from damaged second hand items. All that to say I did not need medication and that stuff is at least 80 % bs
Also, I an SO SO glad that my parents did not let the school convince them there was something wrong with me. The trans kids stuff really infuriates me because parents who stick up for their kids health are attacked. I would likely not be who I am today if mine didn't put their foot down ❤ so grateful they let me work out my own issues and learn how to make the most of who I am
As soon as someone in my husband’s office got sick with Covid, he started having symptoms of Covid. He was not sick at all.
I call my husband an “ad ho” 😂
Every advert he sees he wants that thing, or “needs” it. It’s a running gag in our marriage.
Funnily enough, he actually has Tourette’s for real 😂
My grandpa had tarrets when he was a kid. Everytime he said something, he would repeat it under his breath, one day I asked him why he did that. He said when he was a kid he had turrets, so now he repeats things to make sure he said it correctly. Sadly he passed away when I was 14.
Weird when I was a kid I was accused of doing something similar. Only I would say something quietly before saying it again loudly so others can hear it clearly.
Additionally as a kid some unintended sounds would immediately follow statements usually sounds that most people wouldn't consider normal. The beep of a scanning machine or the first sinewave cycle of a fire alarm siren and these sounds were generally considerably louder than any spoken word. I was able to reproduce many different sounds through vocalization which in my earliest days socializing with others I used to trick others. I was able to convince my teacher that the fire alarm was activated by simply cycling the siren alarm sound repeatedly. The loudness and clarity of the effect was convincing enough that she started the evacuation procedure, but I was discovered when we started moving (with the sound obviously traveling with me) the revelation that I was generating the sound being written all over her face was clearly interpreted by me that it was highly unusual. Even so, wasn't typically trying to make any unusual noises when talking and after it dawning on me that making such sounds was unusual, I was embarrassed to make any noises seen as weird or unusual. It took 4 or so years to clean up vocalization patterns which meant learing to slowly terminate sound production so that clicking, beeping, buzzing and making other loud unintended sounds didn't happen immediately after finishing talking. It took a few additional years to finish words with effective silence before speaking the next word so that overlap causing similar effects don't occur while talking.
In my formative years, I basically sounded like a beta version of a Speak and Spell toy on helium.
That sounds like ocd to me I have it and do something similar
@@VariantAEC that sounds like it was challenging, but at the same time pretty cool, you could have made a career out of it.
@@RealSimsHouse
Some guy did.
I would like to point out that Tourettes and the other "connected" disorders are things that we do not know a lot about, and didn't have a very complete understanding of to start with. You said that it's most common in young boys and is lifelong, which is weird because my understanding was that it is usually in young children no matter the gender, and a for a lot of people it gets better as they get older. And as someone with chronic conditions, you cannot rely on only doctors to understand exactly what a condition is like, because they do not live with the condition and only know the textbook bullet points. Doctors are not automatically the perfect expert about every medical thing, even in their specialty. A lot of the research that was done for many of these conditions, a few examples are adhd and I'm sure tourettes too, was done only on males and the things documented in the dsm-5 and what doctors learn are the more obvious understandable symptoms.
The internet can also distort things and I think that is a very important thing we need to realize. It distorts demographics a lot. When one person gets popular while trying to spread awareness about their severe rare condition, then often others start doing it too because they feel like they can because someone else has shown them they can. So there can be a lot of representation online about a certain presentation or a more severe version of a certain condition while another less rare condition can be not represented at all, just because they are less likely to be on social media, or their condition makes it harder to do so, or they're scared to.
I appreciated that you did not assume that they were all faking and tried to figure out why these people are suffering instead of why there's so many idiot teenagers faking because normalizing and making it okay to determine when some random person is faking a condition is extremely harmful to people who have these conditions. Although I did feel like you didn't actually explain anything or get anywhere beneficial after your opening statement. I know this is wayyyy too long, but I want to add that yes, it is important to "normalize" mental health struggles, but not to make them more prevalent but to make it easier for people to get help with these things and to stop associating mental health problems with insane psychopaths who should be locked up. Because we already exist. These mental disorders are already causing suffering, most people just try to ignore it, and so now that the internet is allowing people to tell their story, it seems more prevalent (which it might be, just not necessarily so). Also, think of how many diseases have been misunderstood over history, and things we know now to be individual conditions being classified as the devil's influence, or just defined by an overgeneralized term. Now those are being distinguished between so the things that people are dealing with can be treated, instead of being considered just a bad personality trait or a mystifying illness. Sorry for the essay, but I felt like these things were important to the conversation. It seems like a lot of the people who are talking about mental health and "fakers" do so because they think they are helping the harm that these "fakers" have done to the image people have of certain conditions, and yes it does do harm but these conversations themself often do the same amount of harm, especially when the people you are talking about, or at least people who actually deal with mental health themselves are not included.
Thank you for pointing that out. That is a perspective that hadnt been Covered, and is rather important. One cant throw everyone in the same bucket. Some people indeed have a neurologically different wiring, and I believe that it's important that these people speak up and give insight. However, fakers destroy everything, setting real people back to being in the silent corner, alone and misunderstood. In essence, fakers render all work truly differently wired people had done redundant. It's painful to see, and as doctors get an understanding of it, it's even harder for a person to get a diagnosis and be listened to, coz all get tossed in the bucket of faking it. Which in turn has it's own kind of negative impact, e.g. In terms of getting preacrobed the wrong pills. For example, people who are indeed autistic get prescribed meds against Schizophrenia and bipolar, because the doctors have a hard time differentiating anymore. Getting handed the wrong meds has such a vast array of effects, and can grow out into a Palette of dysphoria and actual mal functions. Then, people cant get a diagnosis, cant get treatment, and the ones that dont fake get top afraid to speak up actually. This is all very concerning, and im glad someone put forth that side of the coin.
Great job addressing this holistically and without judgement!
Every day I am more and more impressed with the tact you display talking about difficult topics. I hope you have continued success!
I think the same thing happened a few years back, maybe 10 years ago, a bit before Insta and TikTok, with cutting. So many highschoolers were depressed, lonely, feeling lost etc etc.. and cutting was being talked about more and more on Facebook "to bring awareness" and "end stigma"... but then more and more every teenager I was interacting with (I worked in a youth center, had a teen brother, many younger cousins..) were coming out saying they had these issues w cutting, and it just struck me as odd bc when I was in highschool there was maybe 1 person who suffered from this who I knew, maybe 1 in some other school someone I knew knew.... and the more the issue was "popularized" -- the more prevalent it seemed to become... Mass psychosis, psychogenic illness -- yes absolutely!! Glamorizing, fetishizing, incentivizing -- absolutely!! but I think there is an absolute spiritual condition behind everything as well. I'm a whole Bible believer. Scripture is clear when it says that "we wrestle not with flesh but with the rulers and authorities of darkness in the heavenly realm" (Ephesians 6:12) Satan is "the prince of the power of the air" (Ephesians 2:2)
I 1000% agree! There is a spiritual attack happening very clearly. Jesus did say there will be a great falling away from the faith. I beleive this is part of the attack. It just becomes clearer and clearer we are living in the last days. I'm praying more souls make it!
people in the early 90s also popularized "cutting" & it was always talked about among school kids but it wasn't spread the way that things are spread these days because it's not something that was seen as a "trend" or seen as something popular. I too cut myself as a teen in the early 90s because of course some of my friends did it BUT it didn't last long because I soon realized just how ignorant it was & how foolish my decisions were. although some seen it as the "cool" thing to do amongst kids my age, it wasn't made out to be a popular thing to do not was we becoming famous of gaining awards for it. The 90s was also an ENTIRELY different Time as well. We had to actually stand up to our demons & socialize with others around us in order to grow & be healthy. these days kids turn to their phones for attention, love, validity & my much no more causing them to become lonely, sad & always looking for someone to fix their problems based off their comments & likes
People really underestimate the power of the mind when it comes to things like this. Women desperate for a baby have had phantom/false pregnancies in which their bodies went through all the symptoms including lactating. Queen Mary of England had two or three such pregnancies, IIRC. So many kids now have no firm familial foundation much less a firm spiritual foundation. It is no surprise that mental illnesses, even ones as unusual as these, are on the rise. Spiritual bankruptcy of the culture as a whole has left these teens nowhere else to turn but each other.
I totally remember this. And there were all these awareness campaigns about cutting. Some kids at my high school would wear long sleeves to give the appearance that they had been cutting.
I feel horrible for anyone who truly suffers from Tourette syndrome. I can't even imagine what they go through day to day. 🥺
I thought to be properly diagnosed with Tourette's Syndrome, a brain scan showing extra gray matter in specific parts of the brain needed to be done. I remember decades ago watching, I believe it was a 20/20 episode with this man that had a severe case of Tourette's, while he was awake, they Dr's had his brain exposed and they were inserting electrons (some kind of stimulus) to these specific parts of his brain & they could produce an onset & they could also stop an episode. It was fascinating. I forget what they did to him, I think he had a implant put into his brain, but he wound up living a very "normal" life. I hate to say this, but I believe these young ladies need psychological help, not medical.
I had an episode of this a couple of years ago due to a type of antidepressant. This isn't a side effect that's often talked about but is actually quite common and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these girls have been diagnosed and treated for depression. Maybe it's a link that needs to be looked into more especially as those kinds of Neurological disorders can cause others
Excellent point!!
Great observation as I have been treated for depression and mental illness in some form and on different medications for years and have changed medications so many times over the years that I know that I can react very close to this way on some of them, as I got very close to the end of my career as a massage therapist before having a mental health crisis and before having my stroke, I would find myself alone in a room with a client during the massage trying to do the slow methodical strokes of the massage on them and I just would tense up in my body in places and involuntarily jerk an arm or leg and startle more than one client.
Wellbutrin did that to me. Sitting or laying still would cause terrible twitching.
was it fluoxetine? because the same happened to me, and i took myself off that medication INSTANTLY but they still tried to force me to take it for a year
@thorn195 Yes, it was
Who's controlling the algorithm on Tik Tok? "Well, there's your problem" - Larry the Cable Guy
I’ve had Tourette’s/tics since I was 13. It’s an absolute pain in the ass to deal with. I’m 26 now and it’s just aggravating and sick that there’s people in their 30’s 40’s and 50’s that make fun of me for having it and not wanting to speak or hangout with me just because I have It.
When I was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome in early 2019, I decided to download tiktok to see if there was much of a community on the app. It was very close knit with few users posting about their experiences. I followed along with the community for a very long time. In about 2021, I noticed a huge boom in videos and all sorts of new users with tics. I noticed there was a big difference in the way they exhibited their symptoms from how I did or any of the original users I followed did. It got to a point where their tics were so intense and frequent that my mom actually banned me from watching any tourette's related tiktok's because it was making my tics worse. It is a very real phenomenon for people with tourette's to subconsciously develop the same tics they witness in real life and in videos. Tiktok is not a good place for people with real Tourette Syndrome anymore. It's scary how many people feel entitled enough to fake something that is so hard to deal with for many people.
I love that real journalism is coming back. Thanks guys!
Ugh RUclips NEVER notifies me when your show starts.
Me too, and lots of others.
This video opened my eyes …. I 100% assumed they were all faking and looking for attention. But I guess it could be ‘real’.
I remember hearing of a case in psychology class that a town where one girl got tourettes and then her friends developed it and eventually many many girls in the town did, and eventually most of the cases went away
Before I deleted the app, I was also intrigued by these videos. Very very interesting stuff, didn't realize how many different ladies were making these videos. Good work girl!!
May God Continue to Bless you I was on the Left in the LGBT underground Ballroom Scene and I am so happy I am now actually Woke and Survived being Woke 🙌
I have BPD and as a teenager I would take on others personalities. This seems a lot like what they're doing.
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We have seen similar manias throughout history. I recently read "The Sorrows of Young Werther," written by Johann Wolfgang Goethe in 1774, and learned how it began a craze known as "Werther Fever" which led young men to emulate the character in the book and sometimes commit suicide.
And nearly a hundred years later von Sacher-Masoch took the next step with Venus in Furs. 'Next' here meaning differing, alternate, or one leading down a decidely different path. Well, sorta. Still, the nexus with Goethe is obvious even were it not stated outright.
I’m really happy you brought a subject like this up. I just started watching TikTok this year and I have seen a lot of people who either are or just claiming to have Dissociative Identity Disorder. Which I am medically diagnosed with. I thought oh maybe I can relate. But the more I watched their videos some of them have themselves away by giving false information on the illness and not even realizing that they just disproved having it. I’m not saying everyone is doing that, but it’s just really upsetting to feel like people are just playing with illnesses or disorders for attention. It’s a whole new stigma being created that we don’t need. Thank you for making this video ❤
Same. I am diagnosed, and watched a few RUclips videos of people claiming to have DID - but they have no history of trauma, and in every case (save one, who I believe is legitimate and trying to spread awareness) had "sudden onset" DID ... Like, no, that's not how that happens. It's incredibly frustrating because so much misinformation is being spread around, and a serious disorder that stems from severe childhood trauma is being glamorized.
I literally noticed this the other week when going through TikTok and thought it was super strange. Evie Meg however, has a whole RUclips going way back and seems very credible.
Wow! Very informative video. I had a zoom meeting with other mental health professionals and there is a huge rise of individuals self diagnosing or even adopting "symptoms." This is one reason I won't join tik tok.
SOUTH PARK PREDICTED THIS YEARS AGO!! La Petit Tourette Season 11, Episode 8, 2007. Cartaman cultivated his own ticks, meaning definitionally the functional disorder not true Tourette. It is also reflected in the title of the episode that is not true Tourette but still a real disorder.
Streaming on HBO max. Please check it out!
PS in medical diagnosis, “functional” indicates a predominately psychiatric or psychological and not a neurological foundation
we have seen a huge uptick in "functional" patients and I dont want to sound bad but they can be very manipulative and nasty when they dont get treated how they want ...
Great Channel! Thanks for the research and sharing it.
Im glad someone is talking about this. I remember when I was on tictok I'd talk about feeling like I had "comfort tourettes" where I knew I didn't really need to say whatever phrase or do whatever "tic" but it felt really good to do it, like it released dopamine every time I did. And I'm glad I got off tictok early because for me it went away and I no longer feel like I need to do those things to feel comfort, but I do worry how it's going to effect those that don't make it off in time.
Powerful, informative, and very well put together! Please keep making videos! ❤️
Here’s how you know they’re faking. They claim to have constant physical ticks………….so how is their hair and make up always so good ?
Ok! Lol I was thinking this too.
True, but some of them do have serious bruises and look kind of trashy.
Guess you can fake bruises with makeup, and self harm was popular when I went to school so yeah.
@@hnorrstrom and I’ve cut myself an inch deep while extremely upset. We are all capable of hurting ourselves without caring.
Yeah, but what about the one behind the wheel,wtf!
@@benb.3078 That's how we know they are totally fake real ones would never be allowed to drive a car would they?!
Another great informative video sis xx
I wasn't expecting somethign that interesting, you won a sub :D
Tic Tok has replaced the circus of old that had freak shows. A sad side of humanity. Most people just want to gawk.
I remember when Lewis Qball went viral quite some time ago and after his viral videos there were tons of people posting online with this disorder, many of whom came out that they were faking it.
Ironic…TIC tok 🎉
I’ve been WAITING for you to deep dive this, must have missed it months ago!😂
I remember I saw a fake seizure trend on tiktok before was absolutely disgusted, my son has had seizures every time he sleeps since 2 and a half and spent so much time in hospital and gone blue from lack of oxygen many times It's been so painful to see his little body being to our of control and meds not helping there was times in hospital that he was tonic clonic for up to half and hour with nurses crowded round his bed trying to get it to stop I've seen him week struggling to walk in the mornings going through so many tests, my algorithm must have picked up on my despite online search for answers cos I went on tiktok and there was a trend where when the beat drops the pretend to have a seizure it really unset me. It's not a joke especially when people are dying. Having my son in a hospital bed last Christmas and coming home when I switched places with his dad and crying my eyes out seeing this trend was awful I've got to say in my rage I left quite a few emotional comments.
When I was in middle/high school, the unhealthy coping mechanism going around was anorexia or bulimia. You'd get little pockets of stressed girls with one or two who would get VERY sick, after somebody did a school report on eating disorders. That girl would spend ages reading about them for the assignment, then others would make her feel "seen" for having this issue after she stopped eating or snuck off to throw up, then it would become a full-blown habit+disorder overnight. We had a few school assemblies about it because parents were (rightfully) concerned.
I have friends who have middle-school-aged kids now and they struggle to not let them within a mile of tiktok because it's rife with disorded diet culture crap too
Is this a re-run? I'm sure I watched you talk about this a month or so ago.
Yeah, it's a rerun
I've struggled with tics and tourettes-like symptoms for the last around 5 years, starting after experiencing extreme stress and abuse in elementary school. I have worked with a few doctors throughout my medical journey as they treated me for my other various conditions but as my tics have increased i have been reluctant to seek out specialists in the fields of Tourrettes since I am a young woman who fits a similar demographic to those suspected of experiencing "tiktok tics". This phenomenon is hurting those whom struggle with symptoms and disorders of the kind as it erodes away the "involentery" aspect of tics. I am afraid of not being properly treated and lumped together with those who's symptoms sparked overnight even though mine slowly developed over a number of years, just because of my gender and age. I have only ever truly incountered two other individuals whom experience medically validated tics in my lifetime, both of which have various other medical issues. One of these girls has become one of my best friends and her recent escilation of tics has only made our friendship stronger as I am someone who has stuck around and continued our friendship. Many of her previous friends have inched away from interacting with her due to predisposed judgement on her tics, some thinking she's just plain strange and others lumping her into the group of these tiktok patients. Due to the both of us having these various painful and life-intruding problems I fear being viewed as a "faker" as well, as many of them do develop in groups with one patient exhibiting symptoms and the others adopting. The glorification of Tourrettes hurts people like us and the entire community whom suffers from rare intrusive tics. I have not met a since person who would wish their symptoms or conditions on anyone as they are a huge struggle and degrading. Emberessment in public is just one of the many hurtful effects of involuntery tics. The huge explosion of people finding these things cute and desirable only makes sufferers more invisible.
That's very interesting, I used to go to school with a lad who was diagnosed with tourettes, this was in the 1980s. His disorder manifested in walking on his tiptoes for certain periods of time -sometimes only one foot would go ! He would also have hand "cramps" where he'd get a claw and blink attacks , where he'd just blink for ages. We just accepted it and all carried on, he was one of the most popular lads at school and never had issues when he was playing football/sports so was a brilliant sportsman! He's married now with kids and still has tourettes, but takes some meds to help the spasms, he never once shouted weird shit though.