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whimsicalism 14 hours ago

a lot of chronic illness sub communities are bad and would be good to lose, just like cryptic pregnancy fb etc - they trigger latent mental illness in people

mtlynch 14 hours ago | parent [-]

For those not in the know, why is cryptic pregnancy tiktok bad?

I'd never heard of it, and from what I understand, it's a hashtag people use to share stories of how they found out they were pregnant late in the pregnancy because they didn't have pregnancy symptoms. But I don't understand why that would be bad for people to share/consume.

whimsicalism 13 hours ago | parent [-]

having trouble finding articles about this but there is a common associated mental illness https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/women-who-claim-to-have...

at least in the facebook groups i have seen, this ^ describes the majority of participants