The dangerous impacts of social media and the rise of mental illnesses

Mariel Norton is a copywriter for a digital marketing agency, and is also a relationship blogger for WeLoveDates. Less FaceTime, more face-to-face time. Tallulah Wilson was just 15 years old when she took her own life back in October 2012. The gifted ballerina had been receiving treatment for clinical depression, but whilst creating an online fantasy of a cocaine-taking character, she began to share self-harm images on social networking site, Tumblr. Shortly after her mother discovered Tallulah’s account and had it shut down, the teenager jumped in front of a train at St. Pancras station in London. Back in 2002,...



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