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19-02-2019 07:14 PM
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Re: Topic Tuesday // Symptoms of Social Media - Looking after our Mental Health online // Tues 19th Feb, 7pm AEDT
Social media has exploded over the decade and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon and over the years I have faced a number of challenges to my mental health from social media.
One of the biggest problems I faced was cyber bullying that caused a lot of distress. It was a really tough situation because social media meant that bullying didn’t stop after the school bell. I was told just to stay of social media but in a way that wasn’t helpful either because so much organisation and socialisation happened so I would find myself isolated even from the people that were important to me.
Further, there are some incredibly dark corners of social media and one of the things that impacted me was how easy it was to find content promoting eating disorders or self harm which only served to exacerbate my eating disorder.
That’s not to mention the comparison game where I would feel like everyone else had their life together and I was the only one with no idea what I was doing or how to do life.
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19-02-2019 07:15 PM
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Re: Topic Tuesday // Symptoms of Social Media - Looking after our Mental Health online // Tues 19th Feb, 7pm AEDT
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19-02-2019 07:17 PM
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Re: Topic Tuesday // Symptoms of Social Media - Looking after our Mental Health online // Tues 19th Feb, 7pm AEDT
Heya @Zoe7 Welcome! Thanks for stopping by 🙂
@holly299 Interesting points... It is incredible that an entire generation has to consider the notion of bullying once school ends and you're in your safe space at home. I know when I was in highschool it was MSN messenger. Now there are so many platforms!
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Re: Topic Tuesday // Symptoms of Social Media - Looking after our Mental Health online // Tues 19th Feb, 7pm AEDT
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Re: Topic Tuesday // Symptoms of Social Media - Looking after our Mental Health online // Tues 19th Feb, 7pm AEDT
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Re: Topic Tuesday // Symptoms of Social Media - Looking after our Mental Health online // Tues 19th Feb, 7pm AEDT
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19-02-2019 07:20 PM
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Re: Topic Tuesday // Symptoms of Social Media - Looking after our Mental Health online // Tues 19th Feb, 7pm AEDT
@nashy there is absolutely so many platforms its getting hard to keep track of them all. I've noticed a massive increase in anonymous question sites which can be so harmful because people send all sorts of horrible questions and so much cyberbullying because they have the safety of anonymity to minimise the consequences to themselves and they don't see just how much they have hurt other people.
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