Later, the girl even showed which blogger found a way to lose weight quickly, according to the Baza Telegram channel, on Alexandra Kotskaya’s TikTok. He has more than 3 million followers online. The vials were laxatives – according to the extreme method promoted by the blogger, it was necessary to take 25 tablets at a time, which the girl did.
Now he is at home, nothing threatens his life.
Rossiyskaya Gazeta has written more than once about all sorts of strange and sometimes dangerous healing methods that are promoted on social networks. The psychotherapist of the Doctis telemedicine service, Elena Burdelova, believes that the “viral” distribution of the wildest “almost medical” advice on social networks is based on human nature – curiosity, craving for something new.
“Many people tend to try to solve the problem with little effort, for example, to be slim and beautiful, but not try too hard. And the videos convince us that this is possible. The second reason is that we have an instinctive expectation of a miracle. Bloggers offer supposedly simple and effective solutions. Problems. And a person clings to any “method” like a straw, when other ways have already been tried and do not work, – explains Elena Burdelova. – At the same time, material is posts on the network showing only one successful result, but bloggers do not talk about possible serious consequences, subscribers experience cognitive distortion Constant repetition of the same image with a given result reduces the ability to think critically As a result, no only adolescents cannot objectively assess information, even adult and intelligent people fall for the “bait”.
