Depression by social media is much greater today than five years ago because of cyberbullying. Apps like Ask FM, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and Facebook all have comment options which anonymous people can leave hate messages on profile walls. These messages can change also our morals, using the theory of cognitive dissonance we think that what we previously think was wrong is now acceptable, changing our thoughts to match our actions.. Users on social media become accustomed to these comments, and conform to them sending hate comments themselves. Hate comments online and cyber bullying can lead to a severe mental disorder called depression and can lead to suicide like the 15 year old boy from Illinois.
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Suicides by youth girls are most commonly related to outward appearance. Aspects like weight creep around the internet and mind of girls like thigh gaps and thinspiration. Girls starve themselves to reach the internets ideal body image, “ jutting collarbones, protruding hipbones and, increasingly, something called a thigh gap”(Rosie Mullender, Cosmopolitan writer). Many girls don 't know that weight is mainly associated with hereditary factors, hormones, exercise and lifestyles. There is not one person in particular who benefits from depression, but the bullies can benefit their ego from slowly picking at the victim 's self confidence. There is not exactly one person or rule that allows depression to continue but pharmaceuticals are searching for a safe way to change the suicide thoughts of the patients. Being exposed to media’s ideal body image, developing during this time usually turns to eating disorders. Eating disorders are almost always linked to depression, also with the pressure of bullying of weight on social media, and lack of eating, many teens become hurt and fall into depression striving for the ideal body …show more content…
“The future of depression treatment may come from a better understanding of the chemical reactions inside” says Michael W. Smith. MD. Pharmaceuticals have been trying to find a medicine to cure depression. They believe that the future of depression can be cured with an anesthetic, Ketamine. Ketamine is drug that numbs the body, increases blood pressure, and increased heart rate. Pharmaceuticals believe that the drug will work within hours and health care professions say it has a small side effect in most people but it hasn 't been studied for long term effects. It has been used in small doses in patients who suffer from depression, within hours, the medicine is activated and it curves most thoughts of suicidal
The history of depression has always …show more content…
Suicides by youth girls are most commonly related to outward appearance. Aspects like weight creep around the internet and mind of girls like thigh gaps and thinspiration. Girls starve themselves to reach the internets ideal body image, “ jutting collarbones, protruding hipbones and, increasingly, something called a thigh gap”(Rosie Mullender, Cosmopolitan writer). Many girls don 't know that weight is mainly associated with hereditary factors, hormones, exercise and lifestyles. There is not one person in particular who benefits from depression, but the bullies can benefit their ego from slowly picking at the victim 's self confidence. There is not exactly one person or rule that allows depression to continue but pharmaceuticals are searching for a safe way to change the suicide thoughts of the patients. Being exposed to media’s ideal body image, developing during this time usually turns to eating disorders. Eating disorders are almost always linked to depression, also with the pressure of bullying of weight on social media, and lack of eating, many teens become hurt and fall into depression striving for the ideal body …show more content…
“The future of depression treatment may come from a better understanding of the chemical reactions inside” says Michael W. Smith. MD. Pharmaceuticals have been trying to find a medicine to cure depression. They believe that the future of depression can be cured with an anesthetic, Ketamine. Ketamine is drug that numbs the body, increases blood pressure, and increased heart rate. Pharmaceuticals believe that the drug will work within hours and health care professions say it has a small side effect in most people but it hasn 't been studied for long term effects. It has been used in small doses in patients who suffer from depression, within hours, the medicine is activated and it curves most thoughts of suicidal