#Mental health policies

[health78694]

What Impact Does Social Media Have on our Mental Well-Being?

- July 04, 2023

Title: The Effect of Web-based Entertainment on Mental Prosperity: Exploring the Advanced Scene

Presentation:

Online entertainment has turned into a necessary piece of our regular routines, molding the manner in which we impart, accumulate data, and cooperate with others. Be that as it may, as its impact keeps on developing, concerns emerge with respect to the effect of web-based entertainment on mental prosperity. In this article, we investigate the complicated connection between virtual entertainment and emotional well-being, looking at both the positive and pessimistic impacts it can have on people.

Beneficial outcomes of Virtual Entertainment:

Web-based entertainment stages offer different advantages that can decidedly influence mental prosperity. They give valuable open doors to the social association, cultivating virtual networks and encouraging groups of people. People can interface with companions, family, and similar people, even across geological limits. Online entertainment likewise works with the trading of thoughts, encounters, and daily encouragement, which can add to a feeling of having a place and lessen sensations of disconnection.

Moreover, web-based entertainment offers instructive assets, emotional wellness mindfulness missions, and stages for self-articulation. It can give admittance to significant data, enabling people to find out about psychological wellness, look for help, and offer their accounts. Online people groups devoted to emotional wellness can make places of refuge for people to track down help, decrease disgrace, and advance getting it.

Adverse Consequences of Web-based Entertainment

While web-based entertainment has its advantages, it likewise presents expected dangers to mental prosperity. One main pressing issue is the effect of virtual entertainment on confidence and self-perception. The organized idea of virtual entertainment stages can prompt the examination of one's own life and appearance with glorified, separated portrayals of others. This can add to insecurities, body disappointment, and a negative self-insight.

In addition, virtual entertainment can enhance sensations of dejection and social disengagement. Regardless of the deception of consistent availability, online cooperation might miss the mark on the profundity and closeness of eye-to-eye connections. The consistent openness to others' apparently amazing lives and social exercises can fuel sensations of being forgotten about or "passing up a great opportunity" (FOMO), prompting expanded social correlation and gloomy feelings.

The habit-forming nature of web-based entertainment and extreme screen time can likewise influence mental prosperity. Investing unreasonable measures of energy in web-based entertainment stages can obstruct certifiable social collaborations, rest examples, and generally speaking efficiency. It might likewise add to sensations of uneasiness, stress, and a diminished feeling of life fulfillment.

Cyberbullying and online badgering are pervasive issues via virtual entertainment stages, presenting critical dangers to emotional wellness. The obscurity and distance given by the web-based climate can encourage people to participate in hurtful ways of behaving, prompting profound misery, uneasiness, and melancholy in casualties.

Exploring the Advanced Scene:

It is fundamental to embrace methodologies to explore virtual entertainment in a manner that advances positive mental prosperity:

Limit screen time: Put down stopping points for web-based entertainment use and focus on disconnected exercises that add to prosperity, like actual activity, side interests, and investing energy with friends and family.

Curate your web-based entertainment feed: 

Be aware of the records and content you follow. Unfollow or quiet records that trigger pessimistic feelings or advance unreasonable standards. Search out accounts that advance energy, variety, and emotional wellness promotion.

Practice computerized detox: 

Enjoy occasional reprieves from web-based entertainment to revive and reconnect with the current second. Utilize this chance to participate in taking care of oneself exercises, reflect, and take part in disconnected social cooperations.

Encourage significant associations: 

While online entertainment can work with virtual associations, focus on building and sustaining true connections. Concentrate on up close and personal associations, local area inclusion, and exercises that advance certified human association.

Be aware of your close to home prosperity: 

Screen your profound state while drawing in with virtual entertainment. Enjoy reprieves on the off chance that you notice sensations of stress, nervousness, or insufficiency. Look for help from confided in companions, family, or psychological well-being experts if necessary.

End Results:

Web-based entertainment diversely affects mental prosperity, with both positive and adverse consequences. While it can give open doors to association, backing, and training, it likewise presents dangers to confidence, social examination, and generally emotional wellness. By embracing careful and adjusted ways to deal with web-based entertainment utilization, people can explore the computerized scene in a manner that advances positive mental prosperity and shields themselves from expected unfavorable impacts.

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[the-paris-of-people]

The past couple days online have been... interesting. I consider myself a leftist, think capitalism is corrupt, and think that it needs to be seriously reformed/overthrown. I admit that while I've thrown around phrases and terms like "burn it all down" and "the revolution needs to come" out of frustration without actually thinking about what a revolution entails: excellent organization, unity, and strategy to defeat the United States, the world's largest military superpower which has inflicted political and social destabilization across the majority of countries around the world. There also needs to be superb infrastructure and community to support the disabled, elderly, and poor populations who rely on government assistance and programs, healthcare, and accommodations while this so-called revolution rages on.

All I've received from the far leftist movement are lectures from condescending intellectuals who rattle off academic citations regarding ideological theory rather than practical, tangible steps to advocate for change in our local and regional communities. I have not seen one of them actually discuss conversations they've had with their friends, family, or Americans about what they want to see reflected for the future of the country. I have not seen one of them discussed how destructive, detrimental and traumatic a Trump presidency was for social prejudice and morale in the United States. I understand that for many marginalized groups they've been living in a facist state for centuries so the possibility Project 2025 doesn't galvanize them to see the two parties differently, but I don't think it is fair to white leftists falsely equivocate the election of both parties for the entire American population at all??? Or like at least specify the issues you're referring to in which you view both parties as the same????? Literally one TikTok creator who I used to follow talked about how true leftists are so much better than liberals because they aren't waiting for a presidential candidate to save the world NOW due to the accelerated apocalypse due to climate change but when asked how to change the world they suggest sharing ideas of your future utopia with other leftist groups. How the fuck is sitting around talking about living in a walkable community is great considered "saving the world now"? How are you going to dismantle and restructure American infrastructure to create these communities? How are you going to remove existing racial and social tensions to create a community where everyone lives happily side by side? Do people not consider reality at all?????

And is it not wrong for people to have a fucking sliver of optimism and hope at incremental change that's achieved within the corrupt bipartisan system of American politics, even if they know it's propaganda??? Is it wrong for people to have a singular fucking moment of relief in feeling like their values, beliefs, and lives will be better protected and THEY can advocate for change better??? Is it wrong when there's a couple months until the most pressing election in recent history for people to make the choice they feel will reduce the most amount of harm???

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Members of New Brunswick’s transgender community say Premier Blaine Higgs’ comments on gender dysphoria are “insulting” and “harmful.” On Thursday, the Premier told the legislature: “We’re seeing a rapid onset of gender dysphoria. It’s expanded in the last several years and it’s becoming popular and trendy.” Gender dysphoria is a phenomenon some transgender people experience in which the difference between their gender and the one assigned to them at birth causes distress. It has been recognized by the medical community since 1980, first under the name “gender identity disorder,” before being changed to “gender dysphoria” in 2013. Nicki Lyons-MacFarlane, a trans non-binary person and queer and trans rights advocate in Fredericton, has experienced it. [...]

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[ceruleanvulpine]

the larp drama to which i have vaguely alluded has culminated in a decent portion of the community deciding my friends are liars and bullies who are just looking for excuses to call people they don't like racist. :|

this portion of the community includes at least one person who signed the petition letter, who i didn't know well but kind of looked up to as an older butch who said she'd burnt out on trying to change things but it's good someone was.

now it turns out that apparently i manipulated this woman 20 years my senior into writing (checks notes) "The Board has been aware of this behaviour for some time [...] However, when a problem has reached the point where a letter has to be written by the general population of a community, that is beyond unacceptable. And I question the Board in it's entirety. [...] It's time to fix policies, and put out the fire that's already burning in the building. Use this as an opportunity to extinguish the fire and start building new foundations." which would be pretty impressive if I had done that. those seem like some opinions that have been simmering for a while.

also, implying that a Nice Progressive might be harboring some biases after they compare their enemy, a Black guy, to the evil invading desert wizard empire in the game .. is BASICALLY worse than calling someone the n word. (even the earlier petition letter was "hateful" and "cruel" whereas saying the n word was "stupid" and "disappointing" and "inappropriate")

also I've been blamed for causing a mental health crisis for the guy who said the n word.

the actual game leadership has been pretty open to changes but parts of the community have been such assholes about this that I am pretty set on taking my toys and going home. sighs

[noteitnoteit]

Yes, Public Policies can make a different.

Top 3 Points:

The numbers of suicides are at their lowest during winter (December, January, February). It is not clear why, but they tend to peak in spring and early summer.  “If you are depressed, your brain and body react differently to the increase in exposure to sunlight. It may make you suffer more from insomnia, for example. You become more restless, anxious, so the level of anxiety increases and it may worsen your depression."

Drinking culture is strongly correlated with suicidal rates. “Our suicide rate has gone down at the same rate that our drinking has gone down. So it’s strongly related. And now when, especially the youth, [people] don’t drink that much any more, of course they don’t have that many suicides.”

The suicide rate fell 51% from 1990 to 2022. In 2022 Finland recorded 1,512 deaths by suicide, according to the THL, in what was then a population of just under 5 million. By contrast, in 2022 Finland had 740 suicides, in a population of 5.6 million – more in line with (though slightly higher than) the EU average.

[girlwarlock]

maybe it's a coincidence but it's a lil sketch that when i searched the ''intrusive thoughts'' tag (due to some curiosity from a post that crossed my dash) that this thing come up. @wip @changes I really don't like this kind of targeted communication, whether this kokobot is something that tumblr is cooking up internally or whether they're a third party getting the info from tumblr for this kind of targeted spam.

[selectivechaos]

the systematic cruelty with which schools treat pupils with sm needs to be exposed and stopped. it is traumatising and it makes things so much worse. i don’t care what a teacher’s intentions are, if they make a pupil feel unsafe just to ‘get them out of their comfort zone’ they are a bad person and should not be in education. 🌹🌹

comic by elfishies on reddit

[twentytriesbyt]

T tries #theproductivitything

27 - 29/6/24, 1/7/24 | 8 - 11

Got a lot done by the end of June

Manuscript

Call old client x 2

Add KKSP references

Training sessions

Speak with colleague about G's assessment

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Also went for lunch with a friend and shopped a bit :)

[faithfromanewperspective]

’why is taylor friends with the mahomes when brittany isn’t nice to her and also they support trump’ she knows that. both of these things. she’s just not letting the bully her out of their group of friends that’s also hers and actually existing around people who see politics differently to you is the most effective way to help them soften towards seeing things another way when they realise you’re just as human too

[savage-rhi]

First: HONEY DON'T FEEL BAD FOR CRITIQUING THERAPISTS AND THE WAY SHITS RUN! WE NEED TO HEAR THAT! I'm in mental health, and there are some REAL nasty pieces of work in the field who like preying on patients' vulnerability, and they're damn good at manipulating the systems and social dynamics!

Second, everyone should check this out. It brings up so many good points and considerations to make when seeking therapy or another mental health related service.

[the-psudo]

Was the Trump shooting a mental health issue?

"The FBI said on Sunday that Crooks' social media profile does not contain threatening language, nor have they found any history of mental health issues."

— Reuters (July 14, 2024)

I'd love to see some policies passed to help with mental health in this country, but I don't think that would have prevented this event.

[zipquips]

feeling incredibly unprepared for my med appointment today

[redsea8me]

mental health tip from yours truly, if you’re feeling god awful in the head, PLEASE get out of your room if you can, I know it can be hard sometimes but it helps so much (at least to me personally) a new environment helps me feel a little less like my life is over, going outside helps even more and is what I usually prefer doing, even if all you do is sit on your porch for like 10 minutes that’s still good

It won’t solve anything, or course not, but spending day after day in your room will certainly make you feel worse, and I usually find that when I move to a new area it gives me another burst of energy to get like a cup of water and a granola bar to eat and I go from there

I know it can be hard, but doing something like this is still a step forward

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

São Paulo Government Rewards Police Officers for Convincing Drug Users to Enter Rehabilitation

Tarcísio de Freitas' administration lists incentives to recognize effort

The administration of Tarcísio de Freitas in São Paulo has created a productivity incentive program that provides rewards to military police officers who can convince drug users frequenting the Cracolândia region in downtown São Paulo to enter rehabilitation.

When accepted, the drug-dependent individual is taken by police car to the state treatment center for drug dependents in the Luz neighborhood, also in the central region, and the police officer earns points that, when accumulated, can be converted into time off at the end of each month.

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[iftitah]

imagine being a neet aspirant in this education system

[merrilark]

I want to do so many things lately with friends but have had almost 0 social battery. I wish I could do things adjacent to other people, like... I wanna play a game while sitting next to someone while they play their own game, or read a book with my legs in someone's lap or vice versa!!

Parallel hobby-ing where we're both doing our own thing, but are around enough to idly comment on what we're doing without having to fully engage the entire time.

I want to do that! And maybe share tea.