Mental health awareness is booming—and that’s amazing.
But are we confusing healing with hashtags?
Aesthetically filtered trauma dumps may start a conversation,
but they can’t replace trained professionals.
Can public health find a balance between digital expression and real support?
In my opinion, it’s true — mental health awareness online is good, but we shouldn’t mistake memes and hashtags for real therapy. Sharing online helps people feel heard, but real healing needs trained professionals. We need a balance: use social media to spread awareness, but always encourage people to seek proper help when they need it.
Talking about any issues/trauma/mental health concerns can never happen in a public platform. In these platforms, people can give random advices based upon their own outlook on life and experiences. Therapy or healing needs listening properly first of all, then offering empathy and hope, after that suggest some best ways to adopt based upon their own personality and journey and then allow the person to take their own decision as that helps them in utilizing their own independence. The core objective of therapy is to understand without judgement (maintaining a confidentiality with a code-of-conduct), suggest when required, and make the person potent or make them understand various perspectives to their situation and tell them to do what they feel is the best option to go ahead with. Various therapies have their inbuilt strategies and each question a counselor/therapist asks also has some scientific value in understanding the cognitive process of a person. Besides, people heal when they are in a environment through which they can reflect, not when they are fed with a lot of information, as in that case their minds will get more confused.