TikTok Tics Blur the Line Between Illness and Trend
TL;DR
Covid lockdowns spurred tic-like outbursts among teenage girls tied to TikTok trends, initially misread as Tourette’s but later understood as a social-media phenomenon; the piece argues online content increasingly blurs medical fact from fiction and complicates diagnosis, echoing concerns raised in the documentary Bad Influence.
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