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This project has two aims. First, the research team will confirm whether providing a mental health awareness workshop poses unintended harms by raising the rate of self-diagnosis (as opposed to a neutral workshop) and causing worsening symptoms in previously healthy young adults over a period of one week. The study will focus on determining this in the context of ADHD, as it includes broad symptoms that overlap with normal experience, is commonly overdiagnosed, and is included in many awareness campaigns for neurodiversity and mental health. Second, the study will test whether nocebo effect education, or in other words, learning about the nocebo effects, during mental health awareness sessions "inoculates" against them. Simply learning about the role negative expectations play in creating side effects has been shown to reduce nocebo side effects of medications; perhaps, the same applies to mental health. Researchers will compare the outcome of the ADHD workshop with that of the same workshop but with nocebo information included; both experimental conditions will also be compared to an active control condition. Participants are hypothesised to report the following pattern of symptoms: ADHD information \> ADHD + nocebo education \> Control During the study participants will: 1. Randomize the participants to one of the three workshop conditions to watch 2. Report self-diagnosis score immediately after the workshop and 1 week later. 3. Report symptoms 1 week later.
