With a one-minute look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

Last year, the Wall Street Journal reported on teenage girls developing ticks, physical jerking movements, verbal outbursts, for no obvious reason.

After months of studying the patients, wrote the author, experts at top pediatric hospitals discovered what they had in common.

TikTok. The idea of medical symptoms caused by

social media drove journalist Susie Weiss to look into the phenomenon. A key factor she discovered,

especially for young women, is all the attention. Whenever I'd post a picture of me looking sad

or with pills in my hand, it'd get like 2,000 likes, one influencer admitted. On the other hand, pictures of her

smiling only got 100. Now, we should never dismiss a real condition, but as one doctor put it,

we have to ask, what can we do to make it better? But Jesus said to get rid of your eye or even

your hand if it offends you. Getting rid of the internet or social media seems even harder to

fathom for many of us.

Maybe it shouldn't.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.