Facebook sharing of mental health issue
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Someone I know has posted a link on facebook to a charity sponsoring page that she created.
The page is for a sponsored walk for a mental health charity being done by her daughter who is her early teens.
The text of the page names her daughter (forename and surname), shows her photo and says the following, amongst other things:
“admitted she had an eating disorder”
“struggled with mental health”
“shocked how poorly she is”
Apparently, her daughter allowed her to share this.
Am I right to be appalled by a parent posting such intimate details to be shared with the world for anyone to see now or in the future?
I don’t think that mental illness is something to be hidden away but maybe it would have been more appropriate to keep details to close friends and family only and not online.
The page is for a sponsored walk for a mental health charity being done by her daughter who is her early teens.
The text of the page names her daughter (forename and surname), shows her photo and says the following, amongst other things:
“admitted she had an eating disorder”
“struggled with mental health”
“shocked how poorly she is”
Apparently, her daughter allowed her to share this.
Am I right to be appalled by a parent posting such intimate details to be shared with the world for anyone to see now or in the future?
I don’t think that mental illness is something to be hidden away but maybe it would have been more appropriate to keep details to close friends and family only and not online.
I'm not sure I would have done this if it were my daughter but I wouldn't be appalled at it. Different people - Different situations, views and approaches.
Have two friend with autistic children, one of whom is quite a way over on the spectrum, and regularly post insight on public and private platforms. I don't see anything wrong with it personally.
Have two friend with autistic children, one of whom is quite a way over on the spectrum, and regularly post insight on public and private platforms. I don't see anything wrong with it personally.
Wouldn’t it be better if we could construct a large building, out away from us where people who have these mental issues could go and then it would all be nice and private and us normals wouldn’t have to concern ourselves with it.
I can’t believe this hasn’t been thought of before.
Jesus Christ would you be be saying the same of someone with cancer? No on choses to have a mental health problem, it’s an illness like anything else, why shouldn’t people talk about it?
I can’t believe this hasn’t been thought of before.
Jesus Christ would you be be saying the same of someone with cancer? No on choses to have a mental health problem, it’s an illness like anything else, why shouldn’t people talk about it?
Fair enough, I'm looking at it through the eyes of myself at that age - I think I would have been mortified to have shared such personal information to the world whether it was a physical or mental illness. Facebook sharing isn't really my thing.
Clearly that's not a healthy attitude.
Clearly that's not a healthy attitude.
An ex friend set up a facebook giving page for his wifes mental problems. He was just trying to get dirt out there on her during a divorce. Twunt.
We came across an interviewee / potential employee named in a facebook giving post whom had had money raised to help them with drug addiction issues. That in itself wouldn't have precluded a job offer / interview, but the discrepancies between the facebook post / comments and the court records that could be publicly accessed cost them the chance of an interview.
An individual should always be asked if they want their details in public, they shouldn't be put there on the assumption they want them out there.
We came across an interviewee / potential employee named in a facebook giving post whom had had money raised to help them with drug addiction issues. That in itself wouldn't have precluded a job offer / interview, but the discrepancies between the facebook post / comments and the court records that could be publicly accessed cost them the chance of an interview.
An individual should always be asked if they want their details in public, they shouldn't be put there on the assumption they want them out there.
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