Social Media & Mental Health
How does Social Media & mental health go, well for me there are times when I have to shut it down and escape from the noise. I will often have breaks from it particularly FaceBook, in the current world climate there is far too much negativity and angst on the platform, friends fighting friends over masks and vaccines, political cat calling and bitching. Then we get to my trees bigger than yours and oh look how many presents little Johnnie or Jayne has under the tree. We are living in crazy times and many people are fighting mental health we are in a global pandemic and I do not mean whichever virus strain it is this week.
I feel social media has a part to play in this mental health pandemic that is getting worse by the day, it creates a comparing culture where we watch highlight reels and false living and are told by adverts what we should do and how we should look. I often say that if it is out of my circle of control then in the fuckit bucket it goes. We can not control what ads I see, what others post, the news from whichever source people choose to cherry-pick today.
The mute button on Facebook is good for turning off some of the noise that fills your newsfeed. So I have decided to take a sabbatical from Facebook, well my personal newsfeed, I’ll post to my pages which is where I will post this but I’m avoiding the negative noise, bitching and showing off that is making it so toxic, I do not need that for my mental health right now.
How does social media affect your mental health, leave a comment below?
Self-care
Remember that all the highlight reels are just that, not many post warts and all or talk about the shit storm in their heads, media tells us we should all be getting the latest this and the latest that, we should wear this and look like that but it’s all bollocks. Just be yourself and do your best for yourself, self-care is not selfish. The greatest gift you can give is your presence, memories last forever, materialistic crap will be yesterday’s news tomorrow, under a bed, in a draw never used.
Take care of yourself and your loved ones and give gratitude for what you do have no matter how small, you woke up this morning, if you are reading this then I guess you have a roof over your head, clean water and food. You are richer than so many.
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