While most members of the Tumblr community praised Tumblr staff for finally taking a stand against blogs that promote self harm by banning them, the owners of these blogs lost their support platform and were forced to internalize their emotions. Bulimia, anorexia, and self harm aren't lifestyles, but mental illnesses, and with mental illnesses, support groups are vital to recovery. The banning of their blogs inevitably only exacerbated their sickness and if Tumblr banning the blogs created more harm than good, Tumblr was wrong for banning them in the first place.
When I was in junior high, I had a best friend who I had been close to since third grade and we would go to each others houses so frequently that we practically lived together. She had a Tumblr, but she never told me what her URL was because she claimed that you're not supposed to follow people you know in real life on Tumblr so I thought nothing of it. Three years later, she admitted that she had been purposely harming herself for a long …show more content…
Their blog is a form of therapy to them and when they reblog or post a picture some people might consider as graphic and horrific, it is simply their way of getting the "constant nagging out of (their) head"("Follow up 29). What Tumblr is failing to understand is that these blog owners are not evil and as Tumblr user T rightfully urges, they most definitely are not "some kind of cult made up by malicious people who want to hurt others"("Follow up" 30). These people are sick and need help but like many mental illnesses, if they are to truly recover and get help, they need to choose recovery on their own. Banning their form of therapy and stress relief is not how you deal with sick people, It's how you hide the issue and make their illness even
When I was in junior high, I had a best friend who I had been close to since third grade and we would go to each others houses so frequently that we practically lived together. She had a Tumblr, but she never told me what her URL was because she claimed that you're not supposed to follow people you know in real life on Tumblr so I thought nothing of it. Three years later, she admitted that she had been purposely harming herself for a long …show more content…
Their blog is a form of therapy to them and when they reblog or post a picture some people might consider as graphic and horrific, it is simply their way of getting the "constant nagging out of (their) head"("Follow up 29). What Tumblr is failing to understand is that these blog owners are not evil and as Tumblr user T rightfully urges, they most definitely are not "some kind of cult made up by malicious people who want to hurt others"("Follow up" 30). These people are sick and need help but like many mental illnesses, if they are to truly recover and get help, they need to choose recovery on their own. Banning their form of therapy and stress relief is not how you deal with sick people, It's how you hide the issue and make their illness even