‘Symptom borrowing’: Young people are copying health problems they see on TikTok Daily Mail | September 21, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/09/21/symptom-borrowing-young-people-are-copying-health-problems-they-see-on-tiktok/ Young people are increasingly copying health symptoms they see in TikTok videos, a phenomenon one mental health app founder has dubbed “symptom borrowing,” as the Daily Mail’s Ciaran Foreman reports.