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Psychology Unplugged

Social Media and The Danger of Self-Diagnosis

Psychology Unplugged

Dr. Corey J. Nigro

Health & Fitness, Social Sciences, Mental Health, Science, Medicine

3.8710 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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0:00.0

Hi, again, everyone. It's Dr. Nigro. Our next episode, Psychology Unplugged. The highlight of my week is being able to do this program. There's no shortage of topics. I know that I've done multiple episodes on different ones, especially Born Align, just the personalized stories in general. So please continue to reach out with ideas.

0:24.1

I've been able to communicate with a lot of people in the past week.

0:26.7

I know there's a few people that we've been going back and forth with trying to get in

0:32.2

contact with one another.

0:33.3

But I'll give you that information at the end of this episode.

0:38.6

So I was talking with Julie a while ago, and we were talking today about it.

0:46.1

Our social media platform, we're deciding to take a new route and completely redo it.

0:55.1

And I'm going to bring somebody on who's going to help us in that process, and that's

1:00.0

going to be Julie's department to oversee that because I only have so many hours in a day.

1:08.0

Nevertheless, it kind of, I had a few conversations with patients this past week, and it kind of i had a few conversations with patients this past week and it kind of

1:15.0

resonated with me that uh i've mentioned this to actual patients but i thought this would be a good

1:22.3

episode for a podcast is the dangers of self-diagnosing in TikTok University.

1:31.4

And as someone who does this day in and day out, and I'm blessed that I love what I do

1:38.4

and I do what I love and I never feel that I'm working.

1:42.0

But I'm coming to, approaching this episode as a professional

1:47.6

who doing diagnostics, this is something that is very much a part of the process that I see

1:58.1

in people taking these online tests that have no validity,

2:04.4

nothing that would meet the, you know, from an empirical standpoint,

2:08.7

self-diagnosing, it's, we live in an age of algorithms.

2:17.2

Even just look at it on our phones, what comes up on my Google page or CNN page, MSN, whatever,

2:25.0

is different than what comes on yours and all the different tracking that goes on that we're not even aware of.

2:31.3

And in this digital age, I see that everybody has a diagnosis.

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