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Since the outbreak of the corona, there has also been an increase in a very strange phenomenon - young people developing "tics" that are not related to Tourette's syndrome or any other neurological disorder.
The phenomenon has even earned the recorded name "Tiktok Ticks" and is causing concern among mental health experts around the world.
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Thursday, 09 September 2021, 10:29 Updated: 22:12
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In June 2019, psychiatrist Dr. Kristen Mueller-Wahl from the German Medical School in Hanover, Germany, encountered a strange mystery. The tort department under her responsibility was flooded with patients with symptoms she could not explain. Tics "that characterize her.
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Dr. Müller-Wahl has been treating patients with tort for 25 years. She says the syndrome is most often diagnosed at a very young age - usually around age 6 - and is more common in boys. In addition, the "ticks" that cause the disease are usually unique to that person. In this case, more young women and girls came to the ward, and all the new patients, who as mentioned had never been diagnosed with the syndrome, suffered from the exact same "ticks". ) And "Heil Hitler" which we assume need not be translated.
Waiting for tics they saw on youtube.
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The ward later found out that the new patients were actually "imitating" the "tics" of a young German named Jan Zimmerman, who runs a popular YouTube page in which he shares his dealings with Tourette's disease.
Over the past two years, Zimmerman has managed to become a particularly beloved YouTube star, with two million subscribers to his page.
In a study published by Dr. Muller-Wahl in the journal Brain of Oxford Academic, she emphasizes that this is not a Tourette Syndrome, but a completely different problem known in free translation as "Functional Movement Disorder (FMD). From a neurological impairment, people can also develop “ticks” following a psychological or environmental impact.
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When she explained this to the new patients who came to the clinic, some of them stopped suffering from these symptoms.
Others needed psychotherapy to stop suffering from the problem, but the fact that many young people suffered from exactly the same symptoms fascinated the specialist and the rest of the staff, who were trying to understand exactly why this was happening - and why now.
Mental disorders can spread like a plague
Throughout history, quite a few psychological phenomena have been recorded that have spread in the public in a manner similar to the spread of a contagious epidemic. A similar case occurred in 2011 in La Roy, a small town in northern New York, when a group of girls began to develop "tics" that included facial distortions and outbursts of rebellion. The really weird thing about the story was that people who read about the case or were exposed to it on social media started to develop these phenomena themselves.
In the past, experts have called such phenomena "mass hysteria." Today it is referred to by a name that is more politically correct - Mass Psychogenic Illness. Robert Bartholomew is a clinical sociologist who first suggested in a study that published that social networks contribute to the accelerated spread of these symptoms. According to him, throughout history, these phenomena have in fact been an expression of the most common fears of the period. "In the 17th century these were the witches, today it's the technology," he said.
The good news is that this can be addressed.
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Today, Tiktok is a platform that allows people with tort to better cope with the challenges they face - and also to win the love of the public and a hug from those who were once not even aware of their difficulties.
The hashtag #tourettes is extremely popular, with 4.6 billion expectations as of this writing.
Experts emphasize that this is a welcome phenomenon, but it may also have consequences that we are just beginning to understand.
Recently, many articles have been published by experts warning against the phenomenon, which has even been given a very catchy name - "TikTok Tics".
A study published in March 2021 in the British Medical Journal documented a significant increase in the reporting of young women and girls suffering from "tics".
In a more recent study from April 2021, a group of doctors from Texas reported a 60 percent increase in the proportion of patients who came to the clinic with tics, compared to the days before the corona.
"I have never seen such intensity of distress"
Tamara Fringstein and David Martino are neurologists at the University of Calgary in Canada. In 2008, the two opened their torturo treatment clinic, and have since treated an average of 200 new cases a year. Between May 2020 and May 2021, this figure increased to about 300 cases per month on average.
According to them, they first noticed this increase in the summer of 2020, so they treated a large wave of young people who suffered from "tics" without ever being diagnosed with tort. Martino says that since then the rate of cases has only risen, until at Christmas he tapped "to astronomical proportions." Here, too, many patients showed exactly the same symptoms, with "tics" that were more or less the same. The two believe that the reason for this increase is partly due to the anxiety created by the corona, as well as the fact that many children spent more time in front of the screens, especially in front of the ticking and other social networks. Fringstein stressed that “throughout my career, I have never seen such an intensity of distress in young people and adolescents,It's scary. "
The data show that in the last decade there has indeed been a sustained and gradual increase in the proportion of young people suffering from unrelated "ticks", but many researchers believe that the corona has contributed to an even greater acceleration of this bizarre phenomenon.
The good news is that this is not really neurological damage and that these problems can be treated relatively easily.
But the strange story underscores the need for every parent to pay attention to signs of distress in their children, especially during this period, even if on the surface everything seems to be going as usual.
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