Let me know if you can read the article in full.
It’s not really about 9/11, though I get what you’re saying.
I think the proximity of the Internet prolongs the trauma.
Internet is useful, but too much of it causes… problems, imho.
Internet is useful, but too much of it causes… problems, imho.
I guess it could, if a person who went through a very traumatic event got sucked into internet rabbit holes as a cope.
Like, I could see somebody who was a victim of SA or extreme physical violence retreating into internet forums or online video games where they can “role play” as a much stronger person who would have been able to fight back but is still deeply terrified of going outside of those spaces because the trauma hasn’t been resolved.
On the opposite end, are the attempts to keep the trauma alive. Constantly live within that traumatic even and obsess over it as … I dunno… in a fetishistic way.
But then there are people who will see a person who is doing okay, and think, “Wow, they didn’t grieve properly because X or Y or Z. They should have done this or that or the other before being okay.”
I didn’t see anything in the article that jumped out to me as a good example of “the internet inhibits resolution from personal trauma.”
Was there anything in the article that reinforced your thoughts specifically?
Just life experience. I do believe that the Internet has mental effects that we aren’t really aware of. And I believe that the author, based on previous articles, is speaking to that.
I also see a lot of problems with being terminally online.
