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lotesseMSNBC recreates the same tiresome linkage of internet use and depression. I hate the way this gets talked about - I had so many struggles with my mother, as a kid, over my internet use. I was a lonely socially-isolated kid in the middle of nowhere, and yeah, slash fandom felt like a better place to be than all the high school social events.
There's something profoundly irritating in being treated as if, by simply being a depressive, you've lost the capacity to make choices and fulfill your own needs. If I'm having a depressed day, I can decide how I want to handle it. I can examine myself and make the call as to whether I need to be firm and get myself out into the world, or if I just really need a day to puddle and nest and re-center and recover. Because of the social and time/space structures online, it's pretty much always going to feel safer and easier to me than face-to-face interaction. That doesn't mean that the internet is hurting me!
There's something profoundly irritating in being treated as if, by simply being a depressive, you've lost the capacity to make choices and fulfill your own needs. If I'm having a depressed day, I can decide how I want to handle it. I can examine myself and make the call as to whether I need to be firm and get myself out into the world, or if I just really need a day to puddle and nest and re-center and recover. Because of the social and time/space structures online, it's pretty much always going to feel safer and easier to me than face-to-face interaction. That doesn't mean that the internet is hurting me!
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Date: 2010-02-03 06:40 pm (UTC)