The Connection Between Social Media, Technology, and Mental Health
Unless you live “off the grid” in this world, you can find endless information about “Mental Health” in every social media platform, website, app, or through Google.
It has become such a Buzzword in our culture, that it has become household terminology. It has become a question that family doctors ask you now, as if it is just a typical part of their lingo, when it comes time for your checkups. “How is your mental health?”
It Wasn’t Always This Way
Before websites and talk shows like Dr. Phil, and The Doctors graced our TV’s, Mental Illness was NEVER TALKED ABOUT. Before all of the available websites and self help pages, and people online, trying to help those of us with PTSD, Depression, and Anxiety became an open conversation, one would have to go into Chapters or other bookstores, to the very back, where the cobwebs grew, to find books to help us with such topics. It was simply a topic that made us feel ashamed to speak about out loud.
Alternatively, you could go into libraries and pull books about Mental Disorders off the shelf and hide in a quiet corner to read about…
