I mean, if there is anything more self-absorbed than a teenager, especially a teenage girl, I don’t know what it is. If I could only have explained my bad attitude by saying I was suffering from some syndrome, I’d have sure done it! “It’s not my fault I didn’t come home on time (do my homework or chores, talked back) – I’m suffering from blah-blah syndrome!
“Researchers have examined the troubling trend of teens self-diagnosing mental illness through social media.
A new paper published earlier this month in Comprehensive Psychiatry proposed that “social contagion” through prolonged social media use can explain why some teens, mostly adolescent females, self-diagnose their purported rare mental illnesses and personality disorders online.”
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