Ahuja Jai, Fichadia Palak A
Psychiatry, Dr. D. Y. Patil Medical College, Hospital & Research Centre, Pune, IND.
Medicine, Smt. Nathiba Hargovandas Lakhmichand Municipal Medical College, Ahmedabad, IND.
Cureus. 2024 Mar 21;16(3):e56631. doi: 10.7759/cureus.56631. eCollection 2024 Mar.
In today's world, it is becoming increasingly important to address not only the need for awareness of mental illnesses but also the undue glorification of the same by certain segments of society. Social media has been a major influence on Generation Z in terms of self-diagnosing mental illnesses and romanticizing them. More and more individuals have started recognizing online trends of self-diagnosis of mental illness, and it is increasingly plausible in the process of normalizing the conversation around mental health through memes, TikTok videos, and viral tweets; this has had the paradoxical effect of romanticization of mental illness in certain segments of society. Through this editorial, we would like to highlight this important issue and urge the mental health community to be cognizant of this phenomenon, lest it curtail society's recent advancements in mental health destigmatisation.
在当今世界，不仅要满足人们对精神疾病认知的需求，还要应对社会某些群体对精神疾病的过度美化，这变得越来越重要。社交媒体在Z世代自我诊断精神疾病并将其浪漫化方面产生了重大影响。越来越多的人开始认识到网上自我诊断精神疾病的趋势，并且通过表情包、TikTok视频和热门推文使围绕心理健康的对话正常化的过程中，这种趋势越来越可信；这在社会某些群体中产生了将精神疾病浪漫化的矛盾效果。通过这篇社论，我们想强调这个重要问题，并敦促心理健康界认识到这一现象，以免它阻碍社会最近在消除精神疾病污名化方面取得的进展。
