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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Last night doughnut and I decided to come off all social media (this is the only platform we have now) for a while, we both realised it was playing havoc with our mental health.
Even though we shouldn’t let these things bother us we found ourselves more and more getting irate with those ‘friends’ we had on our social lists, I made a decision long ago to only have people on my social channels of people I know in one walk of life or another, after many years of having hundreds of connections, over time lots of family on doughnuts side has been added and while we are the biggest supporters of anyone if they are doing a sponsored event or needs help, we found it didn’t work the other way round.
We’ve both found that since we began trying to drum up support to get our professional social media’s off the ground that less and less people want to engage with us, everyone we asked to join our page did so but that’s where it ended, even though anyone that starts a new business up we would support them in anyway we can.
When I’ve been unwell recently I was basically ignored, even though others have said the exact same thing and have all those gushing posts, while these things shouldn’t bother me, we found our social media posts on a personal level wasn’t very social, if I’m feeling down (which rarely happens) and I try and reach out for a bit of help I found no one cares and that isn’t very social at all.
Do you know what? Not one single person has noticed we left and today I find myself with half a battery left on my phone and Doughnut and I have spoken more today than we ever had.
So if you are feeling down and rely on social media for support and don’t get it, deactivate your account and get out of that hole, I’ve felt a bit liberated today not having that ‘what the fuck? What’s wrong with me? Joe bloggs as written almost the same thing and it’s a total different outlook’, take a step back to fifteen years ago and take some time for your mental health.
Xx
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I m afraid social media can be very shallow in many peoples cases, as they like to create what isnt real. I ve seen so many mental health posts on some of my friends pages but when I went into nr fatal meltdown they deleted me or unfollowed me.. I learned fast that mental illness has become another social media bandwagon where people will post stuff that makes them appear good people but when faced with it they disappear like a rat off a sinking ship... Funny thing, i ve read a lot of mental health threads on here and some of the posters have had mote empathy for the person suffering than they would ever get from friends.. Enjoy your step back.. Mental health in a relationship is all about communication, communication, communication. Take care  |
Do I care? No not really, would rather keep the internet for strangers, email and phone calls for friends, and meeting in the real world for real friends.
