#social media and mental health

[bewitched-tinea]

Praca nad sobą jest widoczna przede wszysktim w tym, co publikujemy na socialmediach. Jeżeli przechodzimy zmianę mindsetu, wartości czy mamy inne zdanie na jakiś temat (bądź zjawisko)- będzie to zauważalne w tym, o czym piszemy i jak to robimy.

Pojawia się pytanie: czy usuwać ślady starej perspektywy?

Jeżeli ważnym dla nas jest zachowanie świadomości przebytej drogi, a więc dowodów tego procesu, to nie powinniśmy czuć wstydu, że posty x istnieją. Nie musimy (i nie powinniśmy) zastanawiać się czy ktoś je kiedyś odkopie i zinterpretuje błędnie w stosunku do aktulanego stanu rzeczy. Bo my już się zmieniliśmy.

Nie w naszym interesie jest ciągłe pilowanie, by ktoś nie pomylił czerstwego chleba ze świeżo upieczonym chlebem do śniadania.

My już zrealizowaliśmy swoją część.

Wniosek- nie bierz na swoje barki odpowiedzialności za czyjeś myśli. Nie po to dbasz proces o zmiany i pracy nad sobą, by wracać do punktu wyjścia. I to jescze przez "strach społeczny". Masz wpływ tylko na twoją przestrzeń i twoje życie.

Więc jeśli chcesz zostawić coś interencie jako świadectwo zmiany na lepsze (przede wszysktim dla siebie-ot taka pamiątka) zrób to.

I nie bój się, że ktoś spojrzy na ciebie przez pryzmat przeszłości (która już nie istnieje). Jeśli zauważysz u siebie takie myśli i obawy- masz kolejna szansę, by zadbać o higienę mentalną. To kolejna okazja by stać się zdrowszym/szą tobą.

[ferdifz]

The Hard Fork podcast talk with listeners in response to last week's guest speaker proposing we "take away social media from teens & youths" for their/our collective mental health:

Hard Fork podcast: Listeners respond to Johnathan Haight (March 2024) (33 minutes)

[briannaastman]

There has been an on-going issue with social media usage and a decline in mental health in teens. Social media is now a huge leading cause of body dysmorphia, eating disorders, and overall low self-esteem. Kids and teens must start being better protected from social media sites before they spiral out of control mentally.

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[solhwellness]

The Impact of Social Media on Mental Health of Young Adults | Solh Wellness

Social media is taking over our lives more and more, yet it also provides us with a fresh perspective on the world. It provides us with knowledge, keeps us connected, and is now necessary for career advancement. As much as we appreciate its advantages, we also need to be aware of the severe harm it can cause to our mental health, especially in young adults. 

Important issues with social media use:

FOMO, or the fear of missing out, is one of the major problems with social media. We frequently fear missing out on exciting activities or significant events if we don't follow anything on social media. When we see our friends' posts about events, trips, or social gatherings, we could feel inadequate, lonely, or worried that we won't live up to society's standards. Always keep in mind that social media only shows the highlights of people's life, not the entirety of them.

Social media sites commonly showcase people's life in an idealised way by showcasing their accomplishments, vacation experiences, relationships, and financial belongings. As a result, envy and comparison could occur. Continuous contact with these seemingly ideal lives may promote anger and disparity. When we evaluate ourselves in comparison to others, we could begin to question our own achievements, beauty, and general value. Always keep in mind that each person's experience is distinct and that what we see on social media only provides a small portion of the whole picture.

On concerns with negative body and self-image, the ubiquity of professionally altered and filtered photographs on social media can have a substantial detrimental impact. Online representations of unrealistic beauty standards have been linked to problems with physique and self-image. If we are always surrounded by perfect people, great physique, and perfect lives, we could start to feel inadequate and unsatisfied with how we look. This could damage one's self-esteem and open the door for eating disorders or other issues with the body. 

Social media can be used for online abuse and cyberbullying in addition to providing a venue for connection and conversation. Some people are more likely to engage in risky behaviour due to the anonymity offered by the internet. Threats, slurs, and derogatory language can have a negative impact on mental health and lead to despair, anxiety, and emotional discomfort. To report and stop any incidents of cyberbullying, it is essential to get in touch with supportive people or organisations. In conclusion, problems with social media use that go unaddressed can harm mental health, including depression, anxiety, and other conditions that are connected to it. For these issues to be overcome, setting boundaries and giving mental health priority are essential. 

Conclusion

Teens can openly share their real-life experiences and have important conversations on the genuine and encouraging platform offered by Solh Wellness. We can encourage a balanced approach to using social media and safeguard our mental wellbeing in the digital age by encouraging people to express their real selves via the use of tools like journaling and support groups. Young people may use social media while prioritising their mental health thanks to Solh Wellness' safe zone where they can be themselves and get support. 

[dyinggirldied]

Danny, burnout and exhausted of being the basically only one who can fight ghosts but still gets villainized and hated by the people he saved, decides he's done.

Because he's 14 he runs to another city, one where his parents and GIW cannot willy dilly do whatever they want. Yes, he runs to Gotham. Without telling anyone.

At Gotham, he ultilizes his intelligence in making fake ID and studies at a normal if a bit run down Gotham high school, not the fancy one where Tim or Damian is studying because 1) he's trying to lay low and 2) he hates the rich. He uses an old abadoned fire station as his home.

It's all fine and dandy. He doesn't need to intervene much since there are plenty of vigilantes in this city and he's free to just...focus. On himself, his education.

Meanwhile, Amity Park is literally and metaphorically under fire with his absence.

[hezigler]

Social media and teen mental health: 10 things to know https://www.npr.org/1157180971

[selfhealingmoments]

[vanhelsingapologist]

Publishing has always been a fucking nightmare, but now it’s a layer of hell. It’s not enough that writers be good at what they do. Writers have to maintain an active social media presence and cultivate a following. Be available.

They have to be conventionally attractive enough to look good enough to see on a screen, aesthetically pleasing, kind, funny, up-to-date on trends, socially aware but not so controversial that they turn off a brand from California from slapping their discount code on a video promoting a book.

They have to do all of this with no media training, with little help from the companies that are supposed to be doing this for them.

Of course, a lot of this isn't possible for say, the 40-something mother of two who teaches English at a school and writes on the side. She’s boxed out of an already complex industry that already has enough walls.

On some level, I think authors have always marketed themselves a little, but we’ve reached such a crazy point where we’re demanding the author become the influencer. Accessibility in publishing has narrowed from an inch to a sliver. And that inch was hard enough to get in as is.

[whatevahwhatevah]

Sorry for disappearing again, have some more kyman

[kittyit]

post-entertainment society

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[thepeacefulgarden]

Compassion fatigue, activism fatigue, secondary trauma, all of those are very real things. Being burned out doesn't mean you're a bad person, or that you don't care. It means your brain needs a break, because it's meant to deal with stress in short bursts, not a constant, nonstop deluge of stress. (And that's true no matter how privileged you are/aren't. That's just how human brains work.) Don't ever feel guilty for feeling burned out; it does not reflect on you as a person. You have nothing to be guilty about.

And, don't ever feel guilty about taking some time to rest, taking a step back from the news cycle, social media, filtering certain tags, etc. etc. You can always come back to it. You need to give yourself a break, or you'll have some kind of breakdown, be it mental, physical, or both. And there is a difference between staying informed and doomscrolling. There is a difference between "selfishness" or "self-indulgence" and self-care. There is a difference between "not caring" and taking a step back for the sake of your mental health. And yes, there is a difference between "I don't care," and "I just don't have the mental/physical/emotional/etc. bandwidth to deal with this right now." (It should also be noted that just because someone isn't posting about current events or what have you, doesn't mean they don't care about them or aren't doing anything. They could be doing stuff you can't see, or maybe they feel they have nothing to say that hasn't already been said, or maybe blorboposting is what's keeping their mental health okay. You don't know, so just be kind.)

[probablyasocialecologist]

Prof Earl Miller, a neuroscientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explained one to me. He said “your brain can only produce one or two thoughts” in your conscious mind at once. That’s it. “We’re very, very single-minded.” We have “very limited cognitive capacity”. But we have fallen for an enormous delusion. The average teenager now believes they can follow six forms of media at the same time. When neuroscientists studied this, they found that when people believe they are doing several things at once, they are actually juggling. “They’re switching back and forth. They don’t notice the switching because their brain sort of papers it over to give a seamless experience of consciousness, but what they’re actually doing is switching and reconfiguring their brain moment-to-moment, task-to-task – [and] that comes with a cost.” Imagine, say, you are doing your tax return, and you receive a text, and you look at it – it’s only a glance, taking three seconds – and then you go back to your tax return. In that moment, “your brain has to reconfigure, when it goes from one task to another”, he said. You have to remember what you were doing before, and you have to remember what you thought about it. When this happens, the evidence shows that “your performance drops. You’re slower. All as a result of the switching.”

This is called the “switch-cost effect”. It means that if you check your texts while trying to work, you aren’t only losing the little bursts of time you spend looking at the texts themselves – you are also losing the time it takes to refocus afterwards, which turns out to be a huge amount. For example, one study at the Carnegie Mellon University’s human computer interaction lab took 136 students and got them to sit a test. Some of them had to have their phones switched off, and others had their phones on and received intermittent text messages. The students who received messages performed, on average, 20% worse. It seems to me that almost all of us are currently losing that 20% of our brainpower, almost all the time. Miller told me that as a result we now live in “a perfect storm of cognitive degradation”.

[pixlokita]

I feel like ? I gotta remind people it’s ok to unfollow a blog when it upsets you in any way >> like if I ever do that sure, you can let me know if it was anything I did personally I’d appreciate it but if you just don’t enjoy something it’s ok to unfollow ;w; can’t stress enough how important it is to put your mental health first 👌

[tricksterlatte]

Combatting anxiety by posting more out of context The Spiral Staircase WIP screenshots