I do communication studies and during a course my teacher explained that " society has never been so connected, and that there has never been so much communication between people as there is today, but surprisingly the feeling of loneliness is higher than ever before and suicide too". I often hear about th society progress but it is very paradoxical.
What can explain this phenomenon ?
Use of social media is the main cause of loneliness.
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These articles may interest you:
https://www.helpguide.org/articles/mental-health/social-media-and-mental-health.htm
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/girls-women-and-wellness/201811/social-media-why-does-it-make-us-feel-more-lonely
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2019/05/ce-corner-isolation
https://time.com/5550803/depression-suicide-rates-youth/
Alix Januel Interesting question.
The reasons for loneliness and suicide are high, despite of communication in the society due to the following reasons.
1. Judgemental thinking of other persons perspective.
2. Absence of care free attitude for the other person.
3. Thinking of one self first than thinking of the other person‘s need.
4. Having unrealistic expectations of dealing with life. Thinking every phase of life will be full of flowers and rainbows.
5. Substance abuse such as drugs, smoking or alcohol.
Being a psychologist by profession, I would recommend, if a person feels lonely or having suicidal thoughts. He or she take to close family members or friends or about how they are feeling. If they don’t have any one to share their worries, they should immediately contact any Well Being practitioner in their locality.
According to me “Sharing problem or issues to a close one is essential”. Once we share we become mentally free of any thoughts of suicide or loneliness. We start to live life happily.
You are right to mention this paradox Alix Januel !
Sharing is caring and caring is sharing as Rohit Kumar Deka already highlighted.
Looking it up from the viewpoint of of mental health as Stephen Cheung did, I would add the following thoughts: I can only onserve that egotist and materialist attitudes can spread faster via ICT; this comes with a rapid loss of personal communication skills (from human to human/without artificial devices).
The "connectedness" that comes from advancing technologies is often accompanied by a sense of isolation resulting in less face to face interaction with people, perhaps a degradation of family contacts and quality relationships. While one may have hundreds of "fake" friends on Facebook, it is never the same as visiting your neighbor or doing a good deed to the community in person. The fulfillment that comes from some of these activities may not be achievable just through computers. Isolation and loneliness are factors for increased suicide rate.
It is not "communication", but "bombing".
From this comes the rest.
Use of social media is the main cause of loneliness.
Article No More FOMO: Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and...
As Gioacchino de Candia and Srini Vasan mention, while communication may seem to be at its peak right now, and certainly is quantitatively, the quality of our communication is actually at an all-time low. Humans rely heavily off of embodied characteristics of other people during social interactions—for instance, facial expressions, the sound of someone's voice, etc. But now that people have begun to get more used to digitalized interactions, people are not exposing themselves to these characteristics as often. Thus, people often feel less like they're talking to people and more like they're talking to computers, which is not as socially fulfilling. Hope you find this answer insightful!
There is some informations refered that the addiction the phone programs and social media lead to loneliness and autistic disease.
Because communication and contact are not the same thing. We need human contact to maintain our mental and physical health.
I agree, nothing compares to human face to face contact. Difficult to measure, but hard to beat
Communication per se does not help the experienced despair and feelings of lack of meaning in a person's life. I attach our papers:
Poor stress management and lack of proper coping strategies.
Problem shared is half solved, when an individual don't share his/her problem with those who can help the fellow; then suicidal mission is bound to be the end point of that person. So, communication is one thing and proper use of communication devices to solve moody situation by the user is another thing.
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