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When Mental Illness Goes Viral: Social Contagions Are Destroying Our Girls

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Social Media Is Creating a New Form of Mental Health

Teenage girls have been stricken with facial tics after browsing the video sharing app TikTok. Social psychologist Jonathan Haid argues that this catastrophic rise in teenage mental illness is largely caused by social media use. Millions of girls with instant access to our culture's most viral and dangerous behaviors and beliefs are currently manifesting the results, he says.

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