Social Media and Self Harm: The Need to ‘Do Something’

Social Media and Self Harm: The Need to ‘Do Something’

From a mental health perspective, too many conversations about the interaction between social media and self-harm are deeply frustrating. When it comes to self-harm and how it is materialised on social media, the conversation perhaps touches on what we might see as the secret life revealed. If we ban pictures of self-harm on social media, what we risk is silencing and isolating those in most pain and those in most need of connection.

Source: www.thesociologicalreview.com