Managing mental health in age of social media
of a 16-year-old Sarawakian who used an Instagram poll to determine her fate has thrown the topic of mental health into the spotlight again.
As children, we would occasionally be envious of our classmate having the latest Gameboy. Now, imagine being able to see the entire world’s toys through your smartphone. It doesn’t help that people tend to put their best foot forward on social media. We see friends vacationing in exotic locations or doing fun activities, and experience FOMO , forgetting that we are comparing our “behind-the-scenes” footage to someone else’s highlight reel.
However, banning or restricting social media use among youth is a clumsy solution. Social media is an almost essential part of the lives of today’s youth, just like how Microsoft Office was indispensable to corporates in the 1990s. There is a silver lining: on social media, especially Twitter, I’ve read many honest outpourings by young mental health patients.
Reframing or broadening the discussion on mental health may help reduce stigma, in that people realise that:3) Mental health affects everyone, even those who are seemingly normal or highly successful.
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