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“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.”
– Glenn Close.

Mental health has been ignored a lot recently. All we have to do is open up and speak to a person. It is okay to let your emotions out. Confining yourself to a room and thinking over and over about the same thing doesn’t help. Having expectations on people hurts and only you can help yourself get out of anything that you don’t want to face. One of the major reasons that the people are not open about their mental condition is that people are not accommodating and unwilling to accept the mental condition of the person. They are afraid of being treated differently and unique treatment doesn’t help it just makes it worse. It is always necessary to pay attention to your mental health. Mental health has got many effects on one’s daily life which includes: physical health, family relationships, workplace relationships and so on. Ignoring the mental health conditions might cause the mental illness to worsen. It is good to take a break and sort out things and get back into the routine to feel better and happier.

Online Journalism

Nothing about online journalism is unknown or new to us. Online Journalism also known as Digital journalism is a contemporary form of journalism where editorial content is distributed via the Internet, which is the quite opposite of publishing via print or broadcast. The increase in the advancement of technology and digital media has reduced the consumption of news through the traditional methods like newspapers. This has also increased the role of citizens in journalism where they get a chance to publish and provide content online without even being part of any news organisation as such. Every citizen now who has a smart phone is capable of being a journalist. Nowadays, a lot of unexpected news and the news that is considered not newsworthy is becoming one of those viral trends on social media. Digital journalism allows the concept of feedback whereas that is not the case with the traditional media and television. A lot of journalists now gather information through their online sources and publish their content. The goals of print and digital journalism are the same, although different tools are needed to function. One major dispute regards the credibility of these online news websites. It is totally in the minds of the users to believe or not believe the online media portals and their credibility.

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The advantages to online journalism is that there is no space limit and it helps us connect to several other related topics or articles without losing the user, using a concept called hyperlinks. Keeping the reader linked to the article is quite important because, as we know that the reader’s reading span is quite small and its very for him/her to get distracted. Drawing attention of the readers also depends upon what kind of headline you give the articles and also the multimedia you use and make the article as interactive as possible, which is only possible through online media.

Online journalism makes it possible for us to access news, from anywhere in the world. It has made spreading information easier, simpler and faster.

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Challenges of Online Media

Though online media is widely used all around the world, the content’s credibility and reliability is always a million dollar question. Most important concerns of the online media are listed below.

Privacy concerns
Mis- and disinformation
Weaponization of social media
Worthless content getting viral
Reduced standards

Even though there are a lot of users on online media, the main problem would be in figuring out who is CREDIBLE.

There are several challenges facing online journalism. These challenges include poor electricity supply and incessant power outages which appears to be brutally eating up the economic development of the country.

Furthermore, the high level of illiteracy especially ‘computer illiteracy’ has become a generational barrier over time. This makes it difficult for those who even have access to the internet unable to utilize the effectiveness of the computer.

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Online Journalism

Online journalism makes it possible for us to access news, from anywhere in the world. It has made spreading information easier, simpler and faster.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/times-fact-check

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/fake-news

Video games and its effects on Mental Health

The priority for online gaming is increasing among adolescents day by day. The adolescents’ engaged in this generally result in significant impairment in behavior pattern in personal, family, social, educational, occupational or other important areas of functioning. There are a variety of games to play, which are distributed over a variety of game genres. These include Casual Browser Games (CBGs) such as Candy Crush or Farm Ville, First-Person or Ego-shooters (FPSs) such as Counterstrike or Call of Duty and many more. Furthermore, there are games which combine genres within one game to create their own social identities. This anonymity gives those with socially aversive personalities the desire to create a virtual life online in which they can be their real selves. Loneliness is something which incredibly increases due to the playing of online games. It is said that individuals who have deficient self-presentation skills might prefer online communication. Lonely individuals turn out to have higher preference for online interaction, since they perceive that online communication might be relatively less risky and easier than face-to-face communication because of its greater anonymity. As they devote more time and attention to their online interaction they have a hard time regulating their internet use. There are some role playing games, where adolescents have the anonymity to exhibit their attitudes and behaviors that may be socially unacceptable or aversive. These individuals generally tend to display poor social skills and are thus alienated by others would prefer to have a virtual life in which they have the anonymity and freedom to exhibit all their characteristics without any form of restriction whatsoever. They would prefer to spend all their time in a space where they can be their true selves.

Marital relationships inter-related with Vocation

When it comes to various vocations, gender differences are very obvious. Men who are generally in dominant roles try to act dominant in their marital relationship. Women who have been independent and never faced discrimination during education find it difficult to cope up with the discrimination both in vocational areas and marital relationships leading to many issues in their relationships. When there is a lot of stress involved in their vocational area, men find it difficult to balance it with their family situations. Generally, men from the early adulthood age group, generally tend to delay their marriage to be financially stable to handle or marriage a family. When married women try to excel in their career they put off the idea of having children for a while to excel in their career. There are lot of sacrifices done by adults to have a proper vocational career. Achievement is something that is really important in everyone’s life irrespective of what stream or age it is. Lack of achievement might lead to a lot of disparities. They must have had achieved something in their adulthood to have a feeling of have done something or achieved something which is listed in Erik Erikson’s stages of psycho-social development, the last stage i.e, Integrity vs. Despair. There are a lot of factors that effect the vocational area of an individual and it is always important not to ignore any of them.

Online Dating and Mental Health

Dating apps are the most happening now, some of them are Tinder, Happn, OkCupid and furthermore. Dating apps, though an effective platform to date and seek companionship, dating apps are increasingly being recognized as double-edged swords. Many youngsters have undergone self-esteem issues due to issues arising from use of these apps. The people who are rejected in real, generally tend to get into these virtual connections and seek happiness. The usage of online dating apps is said to be leading to depression. It is also said that rejection-sensitive people are more prone to be representing their true-self in online media such as dating apps. Young people who do not receive many matches on apps or face repeated rejection develop symptoms of anxiety, depression and inferiority complex. People on the app use filters to portray their physical appearance in a certain way. They claim to have certain interests, such as traveling or reading a lot, of which might turn to be untrue mostly. Dating apps have caused depression in lot of individuals and still continues to be effecting the mental health of the individuals.

Rapport (introduction)

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen!

Presenting you this blog with a lot of information about mental health and changes in mental health at different stages of life and due to different daily-life activities.

You know it is okay to feel low sometimes and you know what is not okay? Not knowing how to be dealing with those low times…!!

You know that we got this right?! YEAHH!! WE GOT THIS!