TikTok Mental Health Lawsuit

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For the past two decades, The Goldwater Law Firm has fostered powerful connections across multiple fields. We help our clients by providing access to:

Determined Legal Representation

We know compassionate and dedicated video game addiction lawyers in all 50 states. No matter where you live, we can put you in touch with the right lawyers to handle your mental health lawsuit against TikTok. Our co-counsel can:

• Assess your situation and figure out the best way to fight your legal action
• Gather evidence that proves you have a case against TikTok, including your medical records and your old posts, likes, follows, and comments
• Negotiate a fair settlement that covers all of your losses
• Speak to TikTok, its parent company ByteDance, and its representatives on your behalf, making it easier and less stressful for you to pursue your case against such a powerful entity

Social Media Experts and Mental Health Professionals

Your case against TikTok may be stronger if experts in the realm of social media and mental health provide testimony in support of your case. We can hire experts to provide statements concerning the following:

• The potential dangers of social media sites for teens and children
• How your diagnosed mental illness(es) will impact your life
• The connection between TikTok and user mental health

Damages You May Qualify for in a TikTok Mental Health Lawsuit

Once we connect you with the right attorneys to handle your case, they can fight for a fair settlement or jury award for:

Past Losses Stemming From TikTok Usage

You have likely already suffered a great deal. Your past damages may include:

• Physical pain and suffering
• Emotional distress
• Worsening relationships with people you care about
• The cost of seeking medical treatment
• Worsening grades that affect your school career and your job prospects/your child’s school career and job prospects

Present Losses Related to Using TikTok

For too many of our clients, the mental health issues they developed while using TikTok as a teen or preteen still affect their lives today. You might experience:

• Loss of wages when you take time off to get treatment or deal with symptoms
• Trouble maintaining healthy relationships, romantic or platonic
• Continued physical and mental pain

Future Losses Caused by Your Mental Health Problems

It is certainly possible for people to effectively cope with social media addiction and live happy, fulfilling lives. Even so, there may be long-term consequences for your mental health, including:

• Permanently reduced earning capacity due to lack of education or symptoms of mental illness
• Lifelong medical bills if you require continuing care or treatment
• Chronic injuries that will always cause emotional or physical anguish
• Permanent scarring
• Chronic emotional pain and suffering

Our firm has a reputation for results. We take our reputation seriously and only pair clients with law firms we trust to get the results you need. Our law firm partners will fight hard to make TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, pay for everything you have lost.

How Can You Qualify for Damages From TikTok?

In order to sue for damages in a social media harm suit, you must have used TikTok for several hours a day when you were a child, a teenager, or an adolescent. In addition, you must be able to demonstrate that your usage of TikTok played a direct role in causing or contributing to mental health issues like:

• Body dysmorphia, or the powerful feeling that something about your body is “ugly” or “wrong” and needs fixing, even if others tell you that nothing is wrong
• Eating disorders, or altering your food intake to deal with emotional pain or body image issues
• Self-harm, or intentionally hurting yourself to distract yourself from other problems or to “punish” yourself for perceived mistakes or flaws
• Anxiety or depression
• Suicidal ideation, or fantasizing about ending your life on a frequent or constant basis
• Suicide attempts, or taking concrete action to try to end your life

There is often overlap among the conditions listed above. It may help your case to have an official diagnosis from a medical professional.

There Is Hope for Users Affected by TikTok’s Negligence

We understand that mental health conditions like those described above can make it hard to feel optimistic about the future. The Goldwater Law Firm wants you to know that hope and help are available. For example, the Cleveland Clinic states that eating disorder treatments are often very successful. And our co-counsel can fight to have TikTok cover that treatment.

To learn more about your legal options, all you have to do is call our office today. We can provide a free consultation over the phone.

The Goldwater Law Firm Can Answer Your Legal Questions

We recognize that this is a hard time for you and your family. Thanks to a social media company’s greed and lack of concern for young users, countless people—including you—have suffered debilitating mental health harm.

Nothing can undo the pain of your social media addiction and its detrimental impacts. Still, the opportunity to ask questions and get honest answers can ease your mind and empower you to make life-improving decisions. Our legal team is available all day, every day, to address concerns like:

How Does Social Media Use Affect Young People’s Mental Health?

Like many social media sites, TikTok thrives on negative emotions. They make more money when users:

• Spend extended periods of time on the platform as a result of the social media app’s addictive features
• Engage more by getting into fights in the comments sections, which may involve users hurling insults, slurs, hurtful language, and other harmful content at each other
• Make extensive use of filters designed to “improve” their appearance
• Become influencers who use their popularity to sell ineffective or dangerous products and present an idealized version of their bodies and their lives
• Follow influencers by buying promoted products and repeatedly watching their videos
• Go viral with outrageous or extreme behavior or opinions

TikTok does not have to be harmful, but how its owners operate the platform with profits rather than users at the top of their mind have made it very risky, especially for younger users.

How Much Does it Cost to File a TikTok Mental Health Lawsuit?

How much your lawyer charges depends on the law firm. Our law firm partners charge a contingency fee or a percentage of your ultimate settlement or jury award that you only have to pay if you win your case. You pay nothing upfront when you call us for help.

What Is the Statute of Limitations for Legal Actions Against TikTok?

That depends on where you live. Each state has its own statute of limitations for bringing personal injury cases. Some states even have multiple statutes addressing what to do in different circumstances.

While it is easy to get confused about which statute of limitations you must follow, it is just as easy to get an accurate answer. The Goldwater Law Firm can tell you how much time is left to begin your case and even lay out your first steps.

Can You Join a TikTok Mass Tort?

It is possible. A mass tort is a legal action where multiple people with the same or similar complaints work together to sue a larger, more powerful organization. To qualify for a TikTok mass tort:

• There must be ongoing legal action against TikTok (MDL 3047), or your lawyer will have to begin a new mass tort.
• Your complaint must be substantially similar to those of the people already involved in the mass tort.
• Your personal injury lawyer has to work with other counsel involved in the case to present evidence against TikTok and negotiate a fair outcome for all plaintiffs.

The Goldwater Law Firm can tell you what legal options are available and how you can exercise your right to financial compensation.