Posted by jay2112 on February 11, 2022, at 11:33:27
In reply to Re: Social Media contributes to mental illness, posted by Christ_empowered on February 11, 2022, at 10:25:23
> I'm thankful that I have the option to not -do- social media. Its not that I'm morally superior or anything, its just...something I do not have to engage in, thank goodness. and so...
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> yeah, based on my friends + friendly acquaintances who do social media (many of them seem to be pressured to maintain -some- sort of presence, both for their official jobs and then also...I guess there's social pressure to be on FB, sometimes?), I'd say...
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> it isn't so much that social media contributes to "mental illness" per se, so much as it is that social media makes ever changing, ever intensifying social pressures harder and harder to escape...
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> and that creates distress which can lead to chronic distress which can lead to labels/mis-labeling, on and on.
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> one thing I kind of...I dunno if "like" is the word, but "appreciate," maybe better/more precise...about being labeled as "Schizophrenic" in my own, personal situation...
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> why bother? socially, the label of "Schizophrenia" is a sort of living death, anyway, so just...carry on, I do me, on and on. lol. :-)Well, I 'do' social media in small gulps. I can only take so much. It just seems FB et al are broadcasting platforms for people who think they know everything and anything just because they have access to Google. That bothers and irritates me often. BUT, I try to just stick close to the few friends, family and acquaintances I've known for many years.
That is why I view it as, sometimes, toxic. It's rugged individualism, and sad that people who think, just because they have money, are somehow automatically intelligent. Quite the opposite, usually.
Racism, sexism, misinformation..that is where the toxic comes in.
Humans punish themselves endlessly
for not being what they believe they should be.
-Don Miguel Ruiz-
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