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.
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.
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