"For example, terms such as " rejection sensitivity dysphoria" achieve instant diagnostic status-and an acronym (RSD)-due to their popular, intuitive appeal. It's highly misleading and can do more harm than good when people embrace such concepts naively and out of context, what has been dubbed "social-media-associated abnormal illness behavior (SMAAIB in How Does Social Media Contribute to Teen Mental Illness?)."
"In essence, the internet can make you sick. Do we really need a diagnosis of "love addiction"? Or, perhaps, a more clinical-sounding permutation, "persistent problematic romantic relationship disorder" (PPRRD)? Within context, the experience of emotional pain in the face of social or intimate rejection is transdiagnostic and also part of the non-diagnostic, ordinary human experience-neither its own thing nor specific to any condition because rejection sensitivity occurs across a range of conditions, from mood and anxiety disorders to developmental disorders to personality disorders."
Social media encourages rapid, intuitive self-diagnosis through popularized acronyms and self-diagnostic memes. These trends create misleading labels like 'rejection sensitivity dysphoria' (RSD) and contribute to social-media-associated abnormal illness behavior (SMAAIB). Emotional pain from social or intimate rejection is transdiagnostic and part of ordinary human experience, occurring across mood, anxiety, developmental, and personality disorders. Labeling normal experiences as pathological risks both misdiagnosis and undermining resilience. Debates about concepts such as 'love addiction' treat passionate romantic behavior as a potential behavioral addiction with neurobiological, behavioral, emotional, and cognitive parallels to substance and gambling disorders.
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