Social Media Offers Tools to Improve Mental Health

[humble3d]

Social Media Offers Tools to Improve Mental Health

Reduce Suicide

The Defense Department makes the total fitness of service members a top priority, and that includes mental health and suicide prevention.

Military suicide is the culmination of complex interactions among biological, social, economic, cultural and psychological factors operating at the individual, community and societal levels.

A complex problem such as suicide requires innovative solutions to support the health and wellness of our service members and their families.

Recent technologies – and social media platforms specifically – may provide novel tools to reach individuals and provide greater understanding of their well- being, improving suicide prevention efforts.

 

Research funded by the DoD Suicide Prevention Office shows how information on social media can provide an important window into a person’s state of mind.

Social media platforms provide potential opportunities for individuals to connect to support or treatment they need.

For instance, social media posts that convey messages of despair or a pattern of increasing hopelessness over a period of time could spur outreach from peers, who in turn can help connect a friend or teammate to commanders and professionals.

Social media platforms could also provide resources to help individuals understand when they should intervene and how to intervene with a friend.

Service members and individuals across our society are living in a new culture of sharing and connectivity.

This landscape provides new opportunities to apply preventive measures and practice timely intervention.

At Jan. 18’s Secretary of the Army Symposium on Suicide Prevention, leaders from the military; mental health and public health professionals; and companies including Facebook, Google, Verily, LinkedIn and SnapChat explored how social media can be used to improve mental health and reduce incidents of suicide.

The full-day symposium included presentations that provide a deeper understanding of how social media can be used to connect individuals who need it to appropriate care or resources. Working-group discussions followed these presentations.

At the symposium’s conclusion, a white paper of recommendations was produced for senior leaders in the military and social media companies.

This document also will inform the development of an online training tool to educate service members, commanders, peers and family members on recognition and response to suicidal risk.

The symposium is in line with DoD efforts to translate and implement suicide prevention research findings in a rapid and culturally relevant manner.

The promise of improving access to behavioral health care and reducing the number of suicides depends in part on the power of partnerships.

The symposium will help to strengthen these partnerships to improve the lives of service members and civilians alike.

Dr. Robert E. Accordino, the White House Fellow to the Secretary of Defense, served as chair of the symposium.

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[pc71520]

Social Media has been responsible for Mental Health distortion; not improvement.

[luisam]

2 hours ago, pc71520 said:

Social Media has been responsible for Mental Health distortion; not improvement.

 

Spending your time on social media might affect your mental health and your perception of reality; the more time you spend on more social media, more you are affected! The most dangerous social media of all is Facebook!

Look at facts and answer yourself if this is not the most insane: You are drived cheerfully and incontenibly to share your private life with some complete strangers just because they clicked on a button manifesting they want to be your friend! And your insanity is boosted each time someone clicks on "thumbs up" telling you they liked what you are posting!

 

On 2/4/2017 at 7:59 AM, humble3d said:

Follow the Department of Defense on Facebook and Twitter!

 

OK... great idea. Also you may follow NSA, CIA and the webpage of IS!

[steven36]

You can blame it  on Social Media if you want but this is not true reality  Because  people being mentally ill have always existed .. The difference in it today from the old days   is they try too deal with most of it on a out patient level unless you're very bad off  in the old days they would lock people away for life  in a insane asylum. Most of the DR's were as insane as there patients back them because they believed in evil spirits and that boring a hole in you're skull would release them and still today the medicine they use for this illness they dont know if it helps  or not they just give it too people because they hope it will help.

 

It's like lithium it's caused many people to die young it's a drug they use for bipolar disorder and causes you're body to dry up and you just fade away .  Lithium (Nirvana song) the song was about thoughts of suicide and the guy who sung it Kurt Cobain killed himself a little latter on . A lot of the drugs they use have been known to make people worse and too be very dangerous  and I seen a documentary about it they dont know if it even helps to give people drugs for mental illness .

 

But  Social Media is not qualified to help  i dont think and really i dont think  there is a cure  if people are just depressed sometimes  they can find things that make them happy again and overcome it,  but it's still there in the back of there mind and they could have a relapse . But if you have a bad disorder you most likely will die mentally ill and in out of treatment  the rest of you're life or you just go untreated .Ether way it dont go away  and this is why they use too lock so many people up for it so. so called  sane people dont have to deal with it.

 

Always people try to make sense out of the unexplained back in the old days they try too blame it on people had demons in them and some still believe this and then we have some who blame it on the internet  but these are just theories . It's just like the Government  trying too blame crime on the internet  and crime have always existed and it would exist without the internet's help. .No one knows why people  commit violent crimes ether just like they dont kmow why people become mentally ill. Some crimes exist that are not really crimes at all and should not be law . If you ask me the whole world is full of lunatics and what is a lunatic?  It's a untreated mentally ill person. Like the Mad King on the GOT lol.