The 21st Century is century of mental distress, worry, psychological pain, depression and weakened mental health.Today, the character of life and living moves from being sad to being worried. We live in an neurotic times. It used to be that life was good.
That all what people were doing was to settle down, read helpful literature, go to well researched movies that build people, meet and create and build friends, and lie down on green lawns relaxing and enjoying; quietening the nerves. On sundays having leisurely walks in the park. Alas, that has completely changed. Life is not beautiful poetry that rhymes with life.
Life is a struggle, a battle. People’s minds are blown away and they check out of society; depressed, anxious and stressed. Social media is full of toxins and it is toxic. It lives behind it mental illness.
There are plants that when you eat the fruits of it you get sick and you die. That is what we talk about poisonous plants. There have toxins. Usually these poisonous plants are medicine, there help in healing. Take for example aloe vera plant.
The aloe vera plant is bitter and is full of healing qualities. But a big dose of aloe vera will kill you. That is the same with social media.
Social media might be helpful when taken occasionally but a big dose of social media cripples your life.
The problem with psychological illness is that it rises slowly and silent. It works undercurrent, that is unnoticed. It is like a rat eating sweet delightful pellets but those pellets are poison. The rat enjoys the pellets in great delights, but after some time the read is sick. Social media operates along those lines.
Living a life of contant checking of social media, in particular Facebook, Tiktok, Twitter, Instagram shows you are careless. What you are not aware of is that you are involved in a form of self abuse.
Facebook and Twitter are the same but different.
What is the difference between Facebook and Twitter?
This question is usually academic and is often asked in journalism classes. But the question is also generally asked in the popular. Let me get to the exactness of the difference between the two within the context of this research blog. There is too much poison on Facebook. There are a lot of toxins on Twitter.
Facebook is the planet of the narcissists. Is a place people say good things about themselves and say nothing of their horrendous actions in the lives of other people. It is about people placing their best beautified photos that are totally different to who they are.
Twitter is a place of stabbing and jabbing at people.
Personality disorder is prevalent in both Facebook and Twitter and it is generally characterized by a tendency to have consistent and persistent outburst and exaggeration and heightening of emotions and the making of ordinary events or issues grotesque, and the results are people are grotesque.
I would like us to return back to the original idea of this research blog post.
We talked about the state of humanity as it revolves around social media. We noted that the social media spaces such as Facebook, Twitter and so on seems helpful superficially, indeed they can be very helpful, but in the long run there whole platform is infested with toxins and is deadly, much more like rat poison.
Epictetus was great ancient stoic philosopher, a man who lived in the first century, he was a contemporary of St Paul, a man who wrote most of the Bible. This was the era that came immediately after Jesus Christ.
Epictetus laid down some basic principles for sound natural health and natural wellness as well as natural healing. Natural health comes down to having peace of mind and a satisfying life. If you have peace of mind and an inner rich satisfying life you cannot be ill or sick. Illnesses come because of psychological distresses.
This is what Epictetus wrote:
You oh man, you are God’s principal work on earth. You are a distinct portion of the essence of God and you contain a certain part of him in yourself. Why then are you ignorant of your own birth. It is within yourself that you carry God and do not profane him by unclean thoughts or unclean actions.
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