Social media and glamorizing the psychological disorders. "Instagram"

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Canadian International College

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The purpose of this research is to study and analyze the content of Instagram posts related to the psychological suffering of its users, published through the romance/emotionalization of psychological disorders. It, moreover, aims to monitor the different methods used in the glamorization of psychological disorders and to monitor the most expressed disorders, as well as, the underlying causes of this glamorous method and the extent to which such posts affect users, through in-depth interviews with psychologists.
The results of the research concluded that the method of using publishers in their posts to synthesize psychological disorders was primarily in the language of speech, followed by the beauty of using drawings and colors.
About the language used in the text written on the picture, standard Arabic language was primarily used. As for the main colors used in the published images to express psychological disorders, the black color was most proportionally used because it has many psychological connotations. In addition to the presence of faces which was a key element of these images, then came the presence of the Scribbles element. All these drawings fell under the category of fine art.
 As for the term psychological disorder as used by the publisher, it was mentioned, in the first place, the various symptoms that people suffer from psychologically, without referring to the term psychological disorder.
This was followed by the use of the term ‘depressant’, which causes a symptom of self-harm, and that may often lead to the desire to commit suicide, in other words, to end one’s life, and these are also symptoms expressed by the users.
Regarding the study’s hypotheses tests, the results demonstrated that there is a correlation between the name of the psychological disorder used in the ‘Hashtag’ and the symptoms expressed, as well as among the elements used in the post’s image.

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