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How social media masks mental illness? More like how people mask mental illness. It's scary how many people are seething tempests of confused emotion under th
by umvi 8y ago
How social media masks mental illness?
More like how people mask mental illness.
It's scary how many people are seething tempests of confused emotion under the hood yet can put on a convincing facade that they are perfectly normal. Just last week one of my co-workers who I've known for years and seemed completely normal on the outside disappeared one day to attempt a Nice-style terrorist attack with a U-haul truck (the FBI nabbed him before anyone was killed).
- webwielder2 8y agoThat kind of thing happens often in your circle, does it?
- monetus 8y agoThe implication and offensiveness of that question actually stunned me. Please don't troll.
- kazagistar 8y agoGenerous reading of the comment is sarcastic scepticism of claims and basically calling the parent a liar, but even in this case it adds little substance to the discussion.
- dllthomas 8y agoI think the generous reading criticizes the generalization from one extreme anecdote to "scary how many" (emphasis mine).
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- tom_ 8y agoI assume it is a comment on the turn of phrase "It's scary how many", suggesting that perhaps this is a phenomenon that the poster has had repeated experience with. (I'm not sure this is a valid criticism, as the comment comes first and the anecdote second, suggesting that the anecode is there mainly for backup.)
- TallGuyShort 8y agoCan't reply to webwielder's comment anymore, but your anecdote is not isolated. How cliche is the response to a mass killing, "we had no idea he / she was capable of something like this."
- coldtea 8y agoWell, if they had, they would have put those persons under close surveillance or put them away earlier. So, obviously it's the one's that people "have no idea" that do the acts. That's probably some kind of logical bias with a name and all ("survivorship bias" perhaps: you have to "survive" the scrutiny people get when they appear capable of a horrendous act, to be able to carry such an act out).
- watwut 8y agoQuite a few of them had history of trouble if you ask those who knew them closely. Legal troubles, conflicts in school, aggression toward acquitances or/and undiagnized but visible mental health problems. Not all, but way more then obe would expect based on cliché. People who say that iften base it basically on killers ability to respond to "hello" with smile and "hello", but did not spent time with them to know their opinions or troubles.
- eljimmy 8y agoI think a lot of people, me included, have quite a high barrier to things they're willing to discuss or reveal to co-workers regarding their personal life.
- umvi 8y agoThis is probably the main issue. People have a "public face" and a "private face". Facebook is primarily a public face medium. Coworker relationships are (for the most part) public face interactions. The only people capable of seeing the private face (and thus potential red flags) are close family members and trusted friends.
- libraryatnight 8y agoco-workers are in many ways competition, revealing certain things to them can be bad for your career. And I'd bet that most people hiding things aren't murderous, just struggling.
- glenneroo 8y agoI don't know where you work, but I have never held a job in ~25 years where I considered any of my coworkers as any sort of competition, and actually quite the contrary, either camaraderie or at the worst, a lack of interest due to e.g. no common interests. I have the feeling that my coworkers always felt the same... perhaps I should ask around.
- libraryatnight 8y agoI've rarely met people that let it hurt the camaraderie of the team (I have met them, rather cut throat people, but not often), but when there's three of us in a role and one spot we all want opens up - we're absolutely competing for it.
- byproxy 8y agoI think a lot of people, (probably) me included, have quite a high barrier to things they're willing to discuss or reveal to people they've paid to discuss and reveal these things to.
- eeZah7Ux 8y ago> How social media masks mental illness? ...by strongly encouraging people to build and maintain a facade and identify with it.
- filoleg 8y agoYou pretty much described what living in a society does, nothing specific to social media.
- keepmesmall 8y agoThe societal facade without computers at least requires a semblance of common sense, good manners and physical health.