Or people who have mental health issues are more likely to frequently post on social media? The implied causation is garbage.
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Or people who post a lot have anxiety issues? A need for outside validation that can never be fully met. I wouldn't say they have a mental health issue.
Out of curiosity, how are "anxiety issues" not a mental health issue? Depression, anxiety, etc. are all mental health issues and there's absolutely no stigma that should be attached to that.
Clinical mental illness has specific definitions. Feeling anxious sometimes doesn't meet them. Everyone feels anxious sometimes. No one was "attaching a stigma" to anything here.
The article and my comments have all been focused on "mental health problems". No one mentioned "mental illness" but you. Those are different things and if you can't understand that, not sure there's anything else to be gained in additional discussion.
You brought it up by jumping to conclusions but your ego can't admit it so take care.
To be fair, the study explicitly states "it is not possible to conclude that posting on social media causes later mental health problems but they are related."
Yeah, I was less faulting the study and more faulting the headline
Came here to say this. Glad I was beaten to it.
Ditto. Was even teeing up the "causality" word but they used it too. Nice to see.
this.
Isolated people are more likely to engage online because they have little to no conversations IRL. or people who have mental health issues and mask constantly will be themselves online.
Youre probably onto something. It makes me thing of that stalkedbythefeds women
Indeed. Junk science like this has consequences
maybe the consequences are the one that cause junk science?
or people who overthink everything are more likely to engage in conversations online AND have mental health issues
Do you speak from experience?
Well fuck. I have posted an absolute shit-ton of content on Lemmy.
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Well shit good on you OP for following through (unless Voyager is just glitching)
lmfao, for a moment, I thought OP was a bot doing those weird delete account shenanigans again 🤣
Nope, the page is dead on summit as well.
I'm debating on if I should reply. I have a feeling others are too lol
Fuck. Social media in general is bad enough. You’re telling me they’re going to get even more unstable?
You're literally using social media right now.
