NatureCats Casual Contributor
Artificial -> Organic
This is a personal view which you do not have to agree with but please be nice....in my own experience mental health has always been at its worse while relying on online systems/supports/connection. It's too easy to be someone else, to provide fake care and to dissociate/become comfortable with hiding behind a screen. As great as the online systems can be, it takes away the need to connect organically. Some loss the ability to connect in person and you are considered weird if you say hi to a stranger. We form most of our relationships through school or work which mainly because we are forced into a situation where we have to socialize with the people around us - and its normal to do so. How many would say its easy to make a new genuine friendship? or build a genuine relationships? Online forums create a world were we instantly base an interest off a photo, not who the person is or what they do, but how they look. Now we call know looks grow and change as we evolve, but what stays? Personality, values and beliefs generally stay fairly stable. To find this more venerable side of a person you actually have to want to spend the time and effort to get to know them underneath the mask we all wear, what you see is a facade that many can hold for years. What happens when it falls off? Many find they are not compatible they break up or they get divorced, naturally this can happen even if the time is spent, as people grow our needs change (so we think) the reality is our core needs never change, what actually happens is over time as we get worn down by life we stop being able to ignore our core needs, they beam and say I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF FEELING THIS WAY. With this often change follows.