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The casual use of clinical terms like "gaslighting" and "trauma" on social media, known as "therapy-speak," is becoming more common.

Mental health experts warn that misusing these terms dilutes their meaning and can lead to inaccurate self-diagnosis.

Many online mental health quizzes and videos, especially on platforms like TikTok, contain misleading or potentially harmful information.

In the age of TikTok therapy and Instagram confessions, words like “trauma,” “boundaries” and “gaslighting” have become a . Once reserved for the therapist’s office, these terms have spilled into captions, hashtags, comment threads and that claim to reveal if you’re “on the spectrum.”

But as mental-health jargon goes viral and clinical language blurs into pop culture, mental health e

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