The case of a former newscast’s depression, caused by the rants of the online community, translated…
The former newscast, Yang from Sanli Television Station, yesterday on the discussion board of National Taiwan University, where she shared her experiences of seeking out a professional psychiatrist, about how last year, at the end of September, when she’d cohosted the talk show program, “The News from the Left, and from the Right”, with a namely talk show host, Ma, after the show was over, because she was misunderstood by the online community, and the online community trash talked her, it’d caused her psychological traumas, “I’d felt very low every single day, wanted to cry, filled with negative emotions constantly, seeing how the public had trash talked me, I’d wanted to kill myself too.”
After Yi-May Yang posted her thoughts, it’d immediately gotten the negative responses of the online community again, some had doubted, “You, who had it made, diagnosed with depression?”, “Don’t put yourself high up on that pedestal”, called her someone who’s out to get the public’s sympathies; but, there are members of the online community who stood up behind Yang too, “After I was bullied from before, I too, went to see a psychiatrist, who helped me get beyond the awful words that people were saying about me”, “just be true to yourself, and don’t care what others may say”.
Toward this, a practicing psychiatrist, Yang reminded the online community, if you had intended to harm someone by criticisms, judgments, not only is this breaking the law, you will also hurt the individuals, and even, causing an irreversible outcome.
Yang believed, that the person who is the target should get away from the storm circles, if you’d cared about what they say, it will only, trap you, deeper, and deeper, causing those who hurt you to win, and you to lose.
Yang is working on her master’s thesis right now, but, wouldn’t dare head to the libraries, and can only hide out in the study centers, where there aren’t that many people around. She’d disclosed, that she suspected, that she had depression, and, it’d altered her schedules and changed her interpersonal relationships, and, when she’d gone out, she didn’t dare look a stranger in the eyes, and, even as she was shopping for groceries, she’d lowered her head, to avoid eye contact with the cashier.
Later on, she’d gone to the psychosomatic clinics, the doctor diagnosed her with mild anxiety. She said, that she’s not out of the storm clouds yet, but, she’d chosen, to deal with her conditions actively, sought out help from medical professionals, and called out to the members of the online community, “Don’t overlook these minor colds of the psyche. You need to actively, tackle the similar problems that I’d faced, and, utilize our well-rounded medical providers, to find the best way, to rebuild your own self-confidence.”
Dr. Yang pointed out, that based off of the researches and interviews with the victims of cyberbullying, whether it be the bullied or the bullies, women are more prone to be victims, primarily because males are more than likely to bully physically, while women don’t use force, but would start isolating one another in small circles or social groups, every time things don’t go one’s ways, the person will pass along some negative message on someone else via online, and, use methods of isolating, shaming, and affecting the other individual’s reputations; and, because women cared more about social interactions than men, they’d feel a greater impact, when being bullied.
If you want to get rid of the effects of cyberbullying on you, Yang suggests, that first, you need to get away from the source of bully, because the more you’d cared about the opinions of the bullies, the deeper you’d get trapped; then, you can set up a social network with those who shared your beliefs, with the support from others, and you can find that steady support system; although you couldn’t control the thoughts of the bully, but, if the other person goes further and further, then, you are, suggested, to collect the evidences and press charges, to protect your own rights.
And so, this, is how serious cyberbullying IS getting, like I said, this ain’t YO daddy’s or granddaddies bullying no more, because, we are now, utilizing the social networking systems that are available to us, to bully each other, and, everything IS accessible online, anything you post, will be fair game, and subject to criticism, so, if you can’t stand the heat, then, don’t TALK!