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TikTok Is My Therapist: The Dangers and Promise of Viral #MentalHealth Videos

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“Watching this made me think I might have ADHD.”“All of a sudden I think I need to get checked.”“Do I call up my doctors or what?”These are just three of the nearly 33,000 comments posted on “The Difference Between an ADHD ‘Actor’ and a Person Who Truly Has It,” a one-minute-long TikTok video by @xmaaniiix, a young Hawaiian with 290,000 followers but no formal training in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.Still, her personal and engaging video has received 2.2 million likes — nearly as staggering as the 2.6 million likes showered on “ADHD in Girls,” a video by self-proclaimed “mental-health advocate” @peterhyphen.

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