Social networks increase depressions – Correio da Manhã

Episodes increasingly frequent anxiety.

Have you ever felt depressed because of social networks?

Director of Psychiatric Services Hospital Gaia / Thorn said Monday that depressive cases that derive from disillusionment and disappointment caused by expectations defrauded the virtual world, as opposed to the real world, they are steadily increasing.

“Today there are more and more frequent episodes of anxiety, depression, stress, addictive phenomena and to develop new disturbances associated with the use of new technologies and easy access to social networks, “argued Jorge Bouça, who spoke on the subject of VIII Mental Health Conference, under the theme” Psychiatry and Mental Health -. Among the Neural Networks and Social Networks “

Organized by the Psychiatric Service of the Hospital Vila Nova de Gaia / Espinho (CHVNG / E), the meeting aims to discuss the impact that social networks and new technologies have on people’s behavior, and in their personal relationships and group.

“The digital and virtual sphere has become a catalyst for new forms of voyeurism and exhibitionism, accentuating effects imitation of self-destructive behavior in the younger generation, such as self-mutilation and suicide, “said the expert.

Border between private and public life disappears
According to Jorge Bouça the loss of boundaries between private and public life we ​​have seen in social networks, through the publication of contents and intimate images, raises ethical issues that will be discussed at the Conference.

Other topics such as radicalization, violence and appeal to causes “cleansing” as Jihadism will also be addressed.

In the two days of the meeting “is intended to reflect and provide clues about the interaction between psychiatry as a medical science, emotions, behavior and the social and human context where it develops the individual,” said the psychiatrist.

Still, in relation to the most recent interactions with technology, how our brain reacts to excessive use of the same, preventing the rest and becoming inevitable because of stress, it will also be one of the points in question, at a time when the scientific studies in this area “still give the first steps.”

The discussion will be expanding thematically, involving a study by professionals CHVNG / E, which is analyzed the use of terms of the lexical field of mental health in the Portuguese media, particularly the incidence of the word schizophrenia, “which has been used in a derogatory manner over the past 10 years, leading to increased stigmatization or the cessation or disease” said Jorge Bouça.

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