David Thomas, LMSW
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3 Apr
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Tourette's?
Similar.
Yes, exactly.
And she was describing to me what was going on.
And then I started hearing a couple more girls who were talking about that.
And so I started doing some research.
And there was this article that talked about how there were certain tics
popping up in different parts of the country, and they tracked that there were influencers who were trying to spread awareness about tick disorders and Tourette syndrome that were popular in the parts of the country where kids were developing these ticks.
And ticks are considered a psychogenic illness.
And so if I'm in front of you having this repetitive tick, you would start to have it too.
So girls who were watching influencers with tics, who were spreading awareness, were developing tics, developing tic disorders from watching TikTok, as crazy as that sounds.
And so it's almost like in this day and time with social media, with influencers, if I don't have a diagnosis, no one's going to believe that what I'm experiencing is real.
It's not going to be valid.
I had a group of high school girls, which I knew this was becoming a phenomenon.
people your age define themselves today.
And this one senior in high school said, I think we define ourselves by mental health issues.
And she said, it's one of the first things we say about ourselves.
Like I have anxiety or I have depression.
And I said, how do you feel about that?
And she said, well, it bothers me because number one, it makes us skew towards the negative.
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