Social media isn't unhealthy in itself, but it creates reward systems for some that entrench and re-entrench their self-image.
Back in the day an incel would come to terms with things and either improve himself enough to get a date or just focus on something else. Now incels can connect with other incels and ping each others' dopamine system by rewarding themselves with upvotes for who can be the most incel of all. Then of course there's the whole issue of identity.
About ten years ago, I went through a mental health identity crisis. I was clinically depressed, but because of certain personality traits, my therapist thought I also fit the profile for schizoid PD. I instantly found a schizoid PD message board, thinking I'd finally found "my" people.
Ugh. At first it was interesting reading all the posts and seeing that I wasn't alone in my thoughts and feelings about things. But it didn't take long for me to realize that the message board was an echo chamber. It was actually worse than an echo chamber because people would play the "more schizoid than thou" game.
Poster A: "I watched my father have a heart attack over dinner yesterday and I didn't even feel anything. I didn't even call 911."
Poster B: "Oh yeah? Well, I watched my father kill my mother yesterday, and not only didn't I call 911, but I let my father stab me a few times before he finally died of a heart attack. I am sitting here between my parents' corpses right now. Maybe I'll eat them for dinner, I don't know. I don't care."
Poster C: "Both of you guys are schizoid wannabes. If you were truly schizoid, you wouldn't even notice what was going on around you. You'd be completely engrossed in fantasy like I am. You're both anime characters, right?"
It also dawned on me that most of the posters were angsty 15-year-olds who didn't even have a formal PD diagnosis.
Then I moved on to Wrong Planet because a neuropsychiatrist told me I showed signs of Asperger's Syndrome. Again, at first it was interesting but then I realized that a lot of the posters didn't want to make changes to their lives out of fear that someone would take away their "neurological atypical" card. Their identity was built around being on the "wrong planet"--not on being a person who might have a better life through medication and therapy and practice. I realized that I had more of the second identity than the first and decided that I would stop lurking on "special snowflake" boards.
Mental health professionals haven’t referred to their clients as “patients” for decades. It’s considered a throwback to the medical model and very much looked down upon.
The biopsychosocial model used today is more holistic and egalitarian. There are workers (or counselors) and clients, not “therapists” and “patients”
Sorry baby, I call my patients patients because I'm their doctor and they are the ones who suffer. That client shit is for social workers and the organizationally harangued.
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1 SnapshillBot 2018-11-24
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1 rationalhuckleberry 2018-11-24
I’ve been thinking that social media in general is unhealthy af. Reading that linked post brought it home.
See ya dramatards. I’m gonna go live my life. Fuck Reddit.
1 better_bot 2018-11-24
Social media isn't unhealthy in itself, but it creates reward systems for some that entrench and re-entrench their self-image.
Back in the day an incel would come to terms with things and either improve himself enough to get a date or just focus on something else. Now incels can connect with other incels and ping each others' dopamine system by rewarding themselves with upvotes for who can be the most incel of all. Then of course there's the whole issue of identity.
1 ugongitbuttraped 2018-11-24
Ed Butthurt Most being a prime example
1 shallowm 2018-11-24
rent free
1 CarlosIIvonHabsburg 2018-11-24
There is nothing wrong with this.
1 POST_BUSSY 2018-11-24
Imagine sleeping lmao
1 itsedgyoutside 2018-11-24
Sleeping is for the weak.
1 ShitsureiKamisama 2018-11-24
About ten years ago, I went through a mental health identity crisis. I was clinically depressed, but because of certain personality traits, my therapist thought I also fit the profile for schizoid PD. I instantly found a schizoid PD message board, thinking I'd finally found "my" people.
Ugh. At first it was interesting reading all the posts and seeing that I wasn't alone in my thoughts and feelings about things. But it didn't take long for me to realize that the message board was an echo chamber. It was actually worse than an echo chamber because people would play the "more schizoid than thou" game.
Poster A: "I watched my father have a heart attack over dinner yesterday and I didn't even feel anything. I didn't even call 911."
Poster B: "Oh yeah? Well, I watched my father kill my mother yesterday, and not only didn't I call 911, but I let my father stab me a few times before he finally died of a heart attack. I am sitting here between my parents' corpses right now. Maybe I'll eat them for dinner, I don't know. I don't care."
Poster C: "Both of you guys are schizoid wannabes. If you were truly schizoid, you wouldn't even notice what was going on around you. You'd be completely engrossed in fantasy like I am. You're both anime characters, right?"
It also dawned on me that most of the posters were angsty 15-year-olds who didn't even have a formal PD diagnosis.
Then I moved on to Wrong Planet because a neuropsychiatrist told me I showed signs of Asperger's Syndrome. Again, at first it was interesting but then I realized that a lot of the posters didn't want to make changes to their lives out of fear that someone would take away their "neurological atypical" card. Their identity was built around being on the "wrong planet"--not on being a person who might have a better life through medication and therapy and practice. I realized that I had more of the second identity than the first and decided that I would stop lurking on "special snowflake" boards.
1 icarebot 2018-11-24
I care
1 -Kite-Man- 2018-11-24
I think we finally need to do something about these robots.
Butlerian Jihad v.0.1?
1 LongPostBot 2018-11-24
All them words won't bring your pa back.
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1 shaneoffline 2018-11-24
If you aren't banging Stacies, whatever your personality is is wrong and a disorder.
1 ugongitbuttraped 2018-11-24
The length of this post alone suggests a mental health disorder
1 sokolovey 2018-11-24
Confirmed agent of Xenu, discarded with prejudice.
1 ugongitbuttraped 2018-11-24
Fake.
Mental health professionals haven’t referred to their clients as “patients” for decades. It’s considered a throwback to the medical model and very much looked down upon.
The biopsychosocial model used today is more holistic and egalitarian. There are workers (or counselors) and clients, not “therapists” and “patients”
1 Sigecaps23 2018-11-24
Sorry baby, I call my patients patients because I'm their doctor and they are the ones who suffer. That client shit is for social workers and the organizationally harangued.