Editing Dissociative identity disorder (section)

===Social media===

A paper published in 2022 in the journal [[Comprehensive Psychiatry]] described how prolonged social media use, especially on video-sharing platforms including [[TikTok]], has exposed young people, largely adolescent females, a core user group of TikTok, to a growing number of content creators making videos about their self-diagnosed disorders. "An increasing number of reports from the US, UK, Germany, Canada, and Australia have noted an increase in functional tic-like behaviors prior to and during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], coinciding with an increase in social media content related to[...]dissociative identity disorder." Authors noted that such cases of self-diagnosed DID (amongst other conditions) often differ from clinically defined symptoms of the disorder, creating the possibility of malingering, and potential negative impacts on those with clinically diagnosed DID seeking integrative therapy. The paper concluded that there "is an urgent need for focused empirical research investigation into this concerning phenomenon that is related to the broader research and discourse examining social media influences on mental health".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Davey |first=Melissa |date=2023-01-08 |title='Urgent need' to understand link between teens self-diagnosing disorders and social media use, experts say |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/09/urgent-need-to-understand-link-between-teens-self-diagnosing-disorders-and-social-media-use-experts-say }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Haltigan |first1=John D. |last2=Pringsheim |first2=Tamara M. |last3=Rajkumar |first3=Gayathiri |date=2023-02-01 |title=Social media as an incubator of personality and behavioral psychopathology: Symptom and disorder authenticity or psychosomatic social contagion? |journal=Comprehensive Psychiatry |volume=121 |pages=152362 |doi=10.1016/j.comppsych.2022.152362 |pmid=36571927 |s2cid=254628655 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Giedinghagen |first=Andrea |date=January 2023 |title=The tic in TikTok and (where) all systems go: Mass social media induced illness and Munchausen's by internet as explanatory models for social media associated abnormal illness behavior |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13591045221098522 |journal=Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry |language=en |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=270–278 |doi=10.1177/13591045221098522 |pmid=35473358 |s2cid=248403566 |issn=1359-1045}}</ref><ref name="pmid37271332">{{cite journal| author=Porter CA, Mayanil T, Gupta T, Horton LE| title=#DID: The Role of Social Media in the Presentation of Dissociative Symptoms in Adolescents. | journal=J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry | year= 2023 | volume=  63| issue=  2| pages=  S0890–8567(23)00302–7| pmid=37271332 | doi=10.1016/j.jaac.2023.03.021 | pmc= | s2cid=259057306 | url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37271332  }}</ref>