Teen Girls Are Developing severe physical Tics. Doctors Say TikTok Could Be a Factor

Is this just journalistic sensationalism or a possibly a serious development? Being glued for too long to a computer screen has never been healthy not since the advent and spread of mainframe computers in the 1960s!

"Teenage girls across the globe have been showing up at doctors’ offices with tics—physical jerking movements and verbal outbursts—since the start of the pandemic.

Movement-disorder doctors were stumped at first. Girls with tics are rare, and these teens had an unusually high number of them, which had developed suddenly. After months of studying the patients and consulting with one another, experts at top pediatric hospitals in the U.S., Canada, Australia and the U.K. discovered that most of the girls had something in common: TikTok."

Teen Girls Are Developing Tics. Doctors Say TikTok Could Be a Factor. - WSJ When teens started turning up in doctors’ offices with sudden, severe physical tics, specialists suspected social media: The girls had been watching Tourette syndrome TikTok videos