Markomarkh
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Before I had the internet and Microsoft computers I didn't have mental illnesses like depression, skitzo or anxiety. So is the Internet the cause of mental illness and problems?
Social media isn't good for your mental health. If you're already depressed and looking at all the "normal" people having fun (or pretending to), it will make you feel bad about yourself.
Plus there's tons of bad news on social media. I only go on when I feel mentally strong enough to weed out the bullshit.
maybe i should try this. what was life like b4 i joined...i can't quite recallDeleting Facebook in particular can dramatically improve mental health. The detrimental effects are widely understated and underestimated
Deleting Facebook in particular can dramatically improve mental health. The detrimental effects are widely understated and underestimated
Deleting Facebook in particular can dramatically improve mental health. The detrimental effects are widely understated and underestimated
It can be. The most typical thing back when people started getting online around here, 1999 was a year where people massively got cheap cable modem service. Anyway, people falling in love with each other when they are teenagers living 2000km away from each other, I have witnessed when I was on IRC a lot in a music ripping group, and yes there was actual chicks, I guess that didn't help, punk music ripping group, when myself I remember, I was one of about 5 people into punk, hardcore punk and stuff like that when I graduated high school, which was so strange, my pretty straight looking female cousins listened to punk, like AFI's 90's stuff (which was very different from when they became emo rock stars), she surprised me when she put on Very Proud of Ya at christmas party where a lot of family was together and at the age you start not liking christmas...Anyway, there wasn't a lot of people like me, so those other guys had nothing much to relate to, even less, they were often nerdier than me or already smoking weed, I was the only one who was playing baseball at the highest level possible in my northern canada city, the kind where I'd spend the summer on buses and it wasn't like when I first started to play out of boredom and my parents paid for me to be in the "home" league, meaning neighbourhood teams in the same city which was uber cheap, while "Midget AAA" is the last step.
Anyway, getting away from the subject, i've seen people go into deep depression from internet romance, like, a lot. And often back then people didn't even have photos scanned of themselves so they would be connecting only at the mind level, which I guess hurts even more? It's what I've observed.
There's also Internet Trolling Syndrome which is a non official but kind of pathology when taken to certain levels, but I guess we all knew that.
Also one thing, Youtube...find the way to disable suggestions to the right, some people go insane with the most ludicrous batshit insane fearporn on there and actually get addicted to it. Then they start wanting benzos.
One thing I think the Internet has done to me, in those teenage years is aggravate my Insomnia, diagnosed by a pedo-pediatrician who was right on the money. I miss the days when all I needed for sleep was valerian root pills that the doctor told my mother to buy. I remember how I liked them, my friend who has zero issue with sleep, a long time friend, back then I had him just take a whiff of the jar because I said it smelled strong and he was like what the hell the smell is making me feel sleepy.
After my parents divorced, I slept soundly, I think the 7 year of hell I had to endure until my dad got reasonable and said "okay goddamnit I'll pay a pension for the kids" was when my mom found in his pockets while doing laundry, that he had found a girlfriend on the internet on one of the first sites like okcupid, a bill receipt for female clothing, and then "the transition" was made smoothly, my mom continued to make his lunches (he's a trucker) until we left. So the Internet rocked the world in my family and I guess everyone who was a bit geeky before 2006, when web 2.0 and all the...I won't bother mentioning what I call them here, let's just say, the people who laughed at people who used the internet back in say 2000, I remember that. It's no longer a refuge from the outside world I gotta say.
As for Facebook, for the people I know who are too dumb to use what they always used before that, MSN messenger (myspace wasn't very popular in Canada), their accounts works on Skype, using Pidgin to keep talking to your friends who are ONLY reachable through Facebook other than phoning them, and I always hated the phone, not big on people who constantly talk on their phone or at their phone, people who do Facetime with anybody while waiting for the bus on their RFID Smart Device appall me. So I can just talk to people on facebook without being on Facebook with Pidgin, and it's easy to make it so that it's encrypted so facebook, if you login the site itself and look at your conversations, it will say "encrypted chat". The other party has to be willing to do it, which is very easy but people are so intellectually lazy..
But then it informed me of people it informed me existed that were some of the worst people in plain view at least of humanity, die, like Zbigniew Brzezinski and David Rockefeller and that makes the cynic in me smile.
There was mental illness before we had internet. Though the internet may exasperate some peoples mental illnesses.
Internet addiction is real. More commonly, internet dependence.