Mental health TikTok

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marshmallowfluff30

marshmallowfluff30

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What are people’s thoughts on this?

I think if they were to take some peoples phones away in hospital then a lot of problematic behaviour would stop and admissions would be shorter. I am sick to the back teeth of reporting head banging wounds and nothing being done about it


There are a lot of creators that make an absolute mockery of mental health/illness and I really worry about some of the easily influenced individuals who are watching them.

It feels very much like the sick olympics. Everyone knows everyone, everyone colluding, everyone’s competing to be the most ill.

Thoughts?
 
I work in mental health, there is an epidemic of people using it for attention. I struggle myself and my daughter has serious MH conditions and the fight to get her seen & get help has been awful. It really does make me angry seeing attention seekers. I feel for the staff at MH wards seeing people sitting on tik tok lives when they're supposed to be ill.
 
I know someone who works in this field and she said (before tik tok) they are in groups on Facebook and it's like a competition they all try to out do each other. They see who can get admitted for longest, who escapes, what meds they get etc. It's all a big attention seeking competition. Absolutely disgusting behaviour which takes up beds for those who are truly un well.
 
I worked in a camhs inpatient unit pre-TikTok so there wasn’t as much worry about them being plastered about so publicly, but they did have ‘secret’ snap groups where they’d time their incidents so staff weren’t able to respond to all of them, which was SO dangerous. New patients would also be added to it so old patients could tell them where they’d left sharps in the room etc.

I also struggle with my own mental health and have been in hospital for 4 years now and have seen the train wreck that TikTok has caused. I’ve not come across many patients posting on TikTok specifically (just a handful), but I have seen the effect of learnt behaviours and the effect of long admissions on people. There’s a lot of boasting on other social media (Facebook mostly) and somehow seeing their mental ‘illness’ and behaviours as a badge of honour. It’s crazy what some people share on social media. To say our natural instinct is survival of the fittest, not many people want to fight to be the fittest.
 
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