Is TikTok Causing A Tourette’s Epidemic in Young Women? 04/13/22

Amala Ekpunobi

Education

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Tourette’s Syndrome is a rare disorder of the nervous system involving involuntary movements and sounds that usually affects young boys. But in just the past few years, a massive surge of videos of teen girls displaying “tics” similar to those of people with Tourrette’s has swept across TikTok, but do they really have the disorder? And if they’re not faking it, could we have what’s been called a “mass psychogenic illness” on our hands? Amala looks at what medical professionals and journalists have found while investigating this strange phenomenon and gives her take on what this has to say about social media’s power over our minds.

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0:00.0	Hello ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Unapologetic Live. I gotta tell you this episode rocked my world doing the research for this and getting ready to talk about this on today's show.
0:09.2	The subject matter for today is TikTok causing an epidemic of Tourette's in young women. Now as we go through the research and we talk about this,
0:16.4	we're gonna find that it's actually not Tourette's. It's a condition called functional neurological disorder.
0:21.6	But before we get into anything, I wanna show you what I saw that sparked this conversation in my brain and sparked this question for me.
0:29.8	So here's this video compilation we made for you.
0:32.2	I have Tourette's in here.
0:35.2	In this video, I will be reading some of room on the broom with ticks.
0:41.4	Obviously.
0:42.4	Ah, then ticking all day.
0:44.4	Uh-huh.
0:45.4	I'm sorry.
0:46.4	Oh.
0:48.4	Hey, listen.
0:49.8	Hey, hey, listen.
0:51.8	Oh.
0:53.8	We're around someone who is actively taking you.
1:03.8	Come on.
1:04.8	I love you.
1:05.8	You can count on me.
1:07.8	You can count on me.
1:10.8	Oh.
1:11.8	My.
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