Social Media Is Redefining ‘Depression’
Online communities like those on Tumblr are perpetuating ideas of “beautiful suffering,” confusing what it means to be clinically depressed.
.. “Tumblr is a very easy place for people to feed off of this kind of frenzy because of their ‘reblogging’ system, [which makes] it very easy to [spread] pictures and gifs… particularly gifs, which can be quite graphic,” Laura says. “But there are specific sites [for] specific conditions, like ‘Prettythin’, for pro-anorexics. It’s grown like wildfire.”