Mental Health

   Recently on the internet became popular the discussions of psychology, emotions and feelings, self-acceptance and confessions, open disclosure of inner worries, more to this, on Instagram appeared "specialists" and "professionals" who teach and educate the audience in their blog through a variety of posts and training on demanded themes. Such media platform became overloaded with this information, and it is that significant amount that people are sometimes unable to filter the material, especially the truthful one that indeed makes sense and is taken from reliable and credible sources. The same as it became easier to receive the webinars/seminars or certificates from the educational centers or self-developed educational organizations and become the coach for one's affective rehabilitation or support. Influencers or bloggers are not the ones who passed such themes by and did not raise this subject in their instablogs, independently being lifestyle, fashion, or travel influencers.
     Being an active user of Instagram and following more than 10 relatively famous Russian and some foreign bloggers, the evolution of the mental health themes was the following. First, "depression" was popular. Not visiting professionals and particularly knowing the definition of the word "depression", especially in a country like Russia where the discussion of psychologists and their assessment was equaled (and still is) to the assumption that the person is crazy, and disclosure of feelings does not receive much attention, still, people travel around the world and learn different ethnic groups, acquiring more Western sight on the depressive state of the human being. Young Russian bloggers at the age of 16 used to mention or they mention now when they are adults, that they experienced depression, how long they were in it, and how they overcame it with which strength (while not visiting professionals). So the bad mood, life difficulties, emotional downs became "depression" and the cult that was followed with is now panic attacks, the second one. More recently, some bloggers traveling to an interesting place or walking alone in the unknown place were recording instastories that they received panic attacks out of fear of being lost or whatever. As the following, from the people who watch them and I know personally, started to use the same experience (panic attacks) in their daily life (not visiting specialists at the same time). And the last ongoing cult now is "hypochondria" - a psychological condition, especially when there is a pandemic around. Eventually, some people started to experience it significantly and talk about it openly.
     So, the assumption can be that mental health became a cult on the Internet, a subject to hype on while using "fancy" words that may not address the real issue the person experiences. Meanwhile, such problems like depression, panic attacks, and hypochondria are serious psychological disturbances that should be defined and stated after the visit to the specialist. But why that happens that after watching a story with the use of such an emotional state the followers tend to acquire it immediately?  They sick the understanding and strong identification with the person (blogger) they share interests with. And the danger of it might be, first of all, inappropriate use of such words/definitions which will make a person look unintelligent. Second, it may elicit these emotions in person while in reality, he might not suffer from these frustrations. Because if one watches the other person indeed experiencing a negative emotion like anxiety, for instance, the viewer out of empathy may acquire such state on himself, and if he is exposed to such content on the often bases such state might be transferred unconsciously and place a person into such experience. However, if there are some boundaries or restrictions to the extent to which the following emotional state can be broadcasted or on a special way to not bring harm as it is done on professional sources, people would be less vulnerable to such content.