How Is TikTok Affecting Mental Health?
by Brian Gallagher
Jan 03, 2023
3 minutes
One question for J.D. Haltigan, an assistant professor of child and youth mental health in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, where he conducts interdisciplinary research informed by a life history, evolutionary perspective.
How is TikTok affecting mental health?
ome of what’s happening on TikTok, particularly with young adolescent females, is contributing to presentations in the clinic consistent with some sort of social-contagion effect around mental illness-like behaviors. This includes most recently the tic-like behaviors, which are more physical manifestations similar to in
You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.
Start your free 30 days