With World Mental Health Day taking place a couple of days ago on October 10th, TikTok took it upon themselves to launch a new feature to help raise awareness for mental health.

With social media being a key factor in low mental health for many teenagers nowadays, TikTok has taken the initiative by having some of their top content creators post videos concerning mental health awareness and resources you can use to get help.

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For someone who is on TikTok and requires mental help, TikTok has launched 5 mental health-specific related hashtags to provide the help one might desperately need but might be too scared to go out and physically and verbally seek it. 

Those 5 hashtags are as follows: #MentalHealth, #SelfCare, #StressRelief, #HealingJourney, and #WeDoRecover. All of them are for specific stories/reasons, which I will outline below.

#MentalHealth is for personal stories and journeys that people have gone through to engage in thoughtful conversations.

#SelfCare are tips to help bring about greater peace with our actions and words.

#StressRelief are ways to help relieve yourself from stress and help you relax in tense situations.

#HealingJourney are heartfelt and honest conversations on the multiple ways in which healing from low mental health can happen.

#WeDoRecover are stories of perseverance through tough times that are very relatable and motivating. 

I also suffered from low mental health at one point in my life, but I didn’t have many resources to assist me, so to see more awareness being spread is great to see. For TikTok themselves to have their top content creators (ie: the ones with the most followers and most popular) make videos relating to those mental health awareness hashtags, it allows more people to see that there are resources of help within the app.

With TikTok quickly becoming a global sensation, adding these features will not only help the people who use the app, but also helps TikTok publicity-wise, as they are one of the first, if not the first, app to feature mental health assistance within the app.