For many women with ADHD, TikTok is the first place they felt heard. Here’s why. 📝 KittyRuskin
published in Health Services Research analyzed the reasons for unmet need for mental health care among Black people in America, and reported that “discrimination based on mental illness and on race was even more exacerbated among Black women.” The study goes on to say that, for both men and women, those negative experiences with mental health care affected whether or not they continued to seek treatment.
Yeung says these videos often include Barnum statements , which are assertions vague enough that almost everyone feels that it applies to them. Yeung explains: “But if everyone has a mental health disorder or a psychiatric condition, that means no one does. So we do need mental health providers and clinicians to make that distinction.”
TikTok also predicts what you will enjoy by looking at the preferences of people who are similar to you, explains Sarah Cen, a researcher at the department of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. This process is known as collaborative filtering. “For instance, if two people click on a bunch of similar videos, the algorithm infers that they have similar tastes,” Cen says.
A TikTok spokesperson told TIME: “We’re proud that TikTok has become a place where people can share their personal experiences with mental health and support one another, and we take our responsibility to keep our platform a safe space for these important conversations seriously. That’s why we continue to invest in digital literacy education aimed at helping people evaluate and understand content they engage with online.
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