A second report by The Guardian breaks down what they say are the most common categories of misinformation, like claiming normal emotions signify a mental illness. According to Dan Poulter, a former health minister and NHS psychiatrist, these videos “pathologize everyday experiences and emotions, suggesting that they equate to a diagnosis of serious mental illness … This is providing misinformation to impressionable people and can also trivialize the life experiences of people living with serious mental illnesses.”
An example, Liam Modlin, a therapist and psychology researcher at King’s College London, told the outlet, is when a video equates feeling tired or having low energy levels with depression. “While some of the ‘symptoms’ overlap with depression, these can be attributed to a range of afflictions and struggles,” he said.
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