Freddie Deboer: How Intra-Elite Competition Turned Mental Illness Into a Meme
From the New World
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The Paranoia of Social Media
Mental health data really starts spiking after 2009, according to John Twang's book I Jen. Is it more like social media or is it specifically like so-called 'gang stalking' groups that use the internet as a way to help them believe things that are crazy are true? "It creates social validation for things that should not be validated," he says.
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