Taisha Caldwell-Harvey:
Yeah, yeah. Well, one never self-diagnose on TikTok. And I think definitely when you have a cultural shift, you often get this pendulum swing. Right. And I think we have kind of swung really far one direction and I’m hoping we will settle back out somewhere in the middle. We know from research that 50 percent of all adults will experience a mental illness in their lifetime.
And so if you’re going to have people online talking about their whole life bold and loud, they then we’re going to have content around how we navigate and navigate our mental health and how we deal with mental illness. And so I don’t think it’s wrong, but I think we really need to separate what is.
I’m sharing my experience and somebody receiving it that way versus your experience as an individual person is so important that it deserves to be the center point of what this symptom is, right? And I think for people really needing to be careful of what you absorb and in terms of who you take advice from, think about it like you would your physical health. Would you take advice and start taking medication from somebody on TikTok that had no qualifications to prescribe medication? You really need to think about your mental health the same way. It’s okay to listen to people’s experiences, but it really need to stop when it comes to now I’m going to do what they did.