Social media as an incubator of personality and behavioral psychopathology: Symptom and disorder authenticity or psychosomatic social contagion?

There has been an increasing recognition among both medical and psychological professionals, as well as the public media, of a concerning trend for child and adolescent users of audiovisual-based, algorithmic social media platforms (e.g., TikTok) to present with or claim functional psychiatric impai...

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Main Authors: John D. Haltigan, Tamara M. Pringsheim, Gayathiri Rajkumar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-02-01
Series:Comprehensive Psychiatry
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010440X22000682