Mental Health and Social Media research

Based on this finding, the role of social media in the mental health has taken a different approach. Initially, social media was associated with depression, anxiety, and worse mental health conditions. Recent evidence suggests that social media essential intervention tool for mentally ill individuals. Social media establishes a community sense as well as facilitates friends and family support, which offers peer support aiding in the recovery of mentally ill individuals. Social media platforms have provided new opportunities and interventions for mentally ill people to connect and offer support as well as get support and share experiences with mental illness. p7). Similar to prior studies, sharing mental illness experiences with other mentally ill individuals on social media has a significant likelihood of improving health as well as psychosocial outcomes lie forming relationships, learning from the experiences of others and feeling support.

Illustratively, people suffering from depression reported utilizing social media groups in eliciting support as well as empathy, expressing them and as a way of community building. Listening to experiences of other mentally ill patients through social media is of great significance and value since authentic accounts tend to be easily understandable. This increases the relevance of treatment information by placing it in an individual context (Lloyd et al. Additionally, mental health services are limited by the factor that it is hard to attain community engagement to every patient. However, through social media sites, it is easy to establish community groups that can be accessed by more than half of mentally ill patients. Studies showed that 74% of adults are active on social networks hence enhancing the development of community programs (Webber & Meredith 8).

Google established a mental health campaign, In One Voice, which aids I spreading mental health awareness. During this campaign, numerous people visited this site and various individual videos uploaded. These leaks in information concerning patients are expected to create lawsuits against the physicians who are involved, for the privacy of medical information. The use of social media on good care is increasing among the people, and software like Lexicon is destined to leave the smart hacker bewildered. Most of the pirates have much knowledge on the use of a blog and share their information using the web. While others know how to use the tweets which is similar to a blog, that is any post is produced to be consumed by the general Twitter users (Hawn, Carleen p. On this perspective, most probably have another account such as Facebook,LinkedIn or Niang which they use to post their works.

The main problem has been on how to prevent these kinds of deaths. The causes of suicidal are in multifuctorial problems. Suicidal behaviors can be grouped into different types of pathogen, mental problem, or expression problems. To advance treatment to these people, it requires early identification of the suicidal victim or people with behaviors, which are at the risks of taking their life. Suicidal ideation is described as those acts, which are related to one ending his own life. In this study we realized there a number of distinct feature such attention seekers, poor coordination in the community, reduced engagement in the community socially, loneliness and anxiety. Through proper mechanism, we can identify people likely to harm them. The improvement in technology will bring more accuracy in identification of these hence caring for vulnerable members.

However, it should be acknowledged that there are various shortcomings of using social media in treating mental health issues. This is due to the factor that social media may also become hazardous damaging to mentally ill patients since they may be vulnerable to abuse, cyber bullying or criticisms. Lloyd-Evans, B. Mayo-Wilson, E. Harrison, B. Istead, H. Brown, E. Moorhead, S. Anne, et al. A new dimension of health care: systematic review of the uses, benefits, and limitations of social media for health communication.  Journal of medical Internet research 15. Tsai, J.