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How does social media play a role in mental disorders among adolescents,…

- - - - “ Personal stories and unheard voices can be made public and shared without temporal and spatial barriers. They have significant potential to facilitate a dynamic blend of education, contact and protest. This rise in user-generated content means that collective action by individuals has the potential to influence mainstream media and policy without sole reliance on campaigning organisations” (article 8)
      - Sharing of tweets by thousands of people helped unite everyone with a mental illness and showed everyone that they weren’t alone and their experience wasn’t minimized . The interaction online allowed for professionals in the mental health field who worked with patients to express their views on how mental health is stereotyped and how difficult it is for those suffering with it. Overall, it social media allows mental health to be heard all across the world and be given a voice (article 8)
        
        Shows similarity between how people can communicate with each other to help each other feel less alone and communicate with each other to spread a message about the greater good of mental health to break stereotypes. It also shows a similarity in how strong the connections in the community are
    - - On twitter in September 2013 many people got offended by the 'mental patient' Halloween costume advertised on a popular website and began sending tweets to show their disapproval. This caused it to go viral and be passed rapidly and across networks, making it the lead item on national news the next day with mainstream media using Twitter to get information from their sources. The website removed the costume for sale and made donations to England's 'Time to Change' anti-stigma campaign (article 8)
        
        mentalpatient hashtag was created by people who posted pictures of themselves saying 'this is what a real mental patient looks like'. The hashtag, which creates a searchable string, was used 6694 times in 24 hours (article 8)
      - “Social media channels are increasingly used by anti-stigma programmes to share their work and influence public attitudes. New Zealand's ‘Like Minds, Like Mine’ Facebook page entitled ‘Stigma Watch’ allows members to post and discuss media articles of concern because of their stigmatising content, thereby providing a space for conversation” (article 8)
    - - "People with mental illness are turning to social media to share their personal experiences of living with a mental illness, to seek mental health information and advice, to learn from others or to provide support to other individuals facing similar challenging mental health problems” (article 5)
        
        “...young adults age ≤35 and adults age 36 to 65 showed many similar demographic and clinical characteristics and patterns of social media use. The majority of participants from both age groups (85%) expressed interest in accessing programs for helping people with mental illness delivered through social media” (article 5)
      - 41% of those surveyed use it to connect with others that have a mental illness and learn methods of coping while 28% of them use social media to connect with someone daily that has a mental illness (Article 5)
  - - - You can use linguistic tools to go through people’s social media online and find out if they’re at risk of developing a mental illness in the future. For example, if you’ve been posting about life stressors like losing a job or going through a divorce, the system would analyze this and flag it as someone at potential of developing an illness (article 6)
        
        Explains that by looking at language patterns used on a person’s account or using specific keywords multiple times can alert as a red flag to allow for early detection (article 4)
      - “Analyses of people’s Facebook likes can result in personality judgments that are more accurate than those based on the judgments of friends and family members” (article 6)
      - The most common related words for depression were darkness, facade, loneliness, chronic, severely and more
        (article 6)
        
        Automated response analysis looks for things like less social interaction, higher use of negative words, higher use of negative words that display negative emotions, and greater mentioning of depression related terms (article 4)
- - - - "Girls who watched more music television and read more teen, women's and appearance-focused magazines had greater dieting awareness. In contrast, girls who watched more children's television had lower levels of dieting awareness” (article 1)
        
        “Women who use social media often internalize the “thin ideal,” causing them to strive for an unrealistic, unnatural standard of beauty and to feel ashamed when they are unable to achieve it” (article 2)
    - - "“Participants who took and uploaded a selfie onto social media, without the option to retouch or take multiple photos, felt more anxious..." (article 2)
      - Shows similarity between research on how social media can cause mental strain and negativity leading to several types of illnesses developing
    - - Article 3 used a Male Body Attitudes Scale and Eating Disorders Questionnaires short in their study to record their data and found that men who used social media more displayed even higher probabilities of developing mental illnesses
        
        Eating disorder symptoms men can develop are attempting to control weight, taking laxatives, overanalyzing what they eat etc, as well as how all of this can lead to mental illnesses like body dysmorphia developing" (article 3)
      - Men with social media said they felt a higher level of urgency to appear more “masculine” and contributed masculinity to being associated with the amount of muscle that they had. They also felt a higher need to take steroids to contribute to building muscle because of how much they associated muscle and masculinity on social media. Taking steroids is a form of an eating disorder symptom since it involves an over obsession of appearance leading to supplement taking (article 3)
  - - - On twitter, people used words like "psychotic" as an insult and also the most common stereotypes found on twitter of the mentally ill were that they were dangerous or violent (article 7)
        
        Even though these are on opposite sides, the similarity between using negative language to stereotype social media and using language to analyze for mental illness is that it shows the importance that language plays a role in diagnosing and understanding mental health. It's such a sensitive topic that by simply using the wrong word out of context can have massive repercussions
    - - "Total of 1,059,258 tweets were collected and mental health conditions were found to be more stigmatised (12.9%) and trivialised (14.3%) compared to physical conditions (8.1 and 6.8%, respectively)" (article 7)
      - " Mental health conditions were more likely to be discussed through opinion rather than factual discourse and tweets in the opinion theme were more likely to be stigmatising, while physical health conditions were more likely to be discussed via informative tweets” (article 7)