How Social Media, Online Dating, Web Porn Are Essentially One & Same?

We all hear the term “Schizophrenia”, a psychological and psychiatrist diagnosis meaning:

“a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.”¹

What is alarming is that “Schizophrenia” falls not only under “mental health disorders”, but also under “clinically diagnosed diseases” as well. In other words is not merely a behavioral disorder rather a diagnosed disease that may go beyond the physical.

Over the years, I have personally worked with increasing number of “Social Influencers” virtually in each and every one of the three categories I mentioned. I have closely monitored mental health and well-being of those performers over the years. I have yet to find one single performer who did not grow more damaged and damaging to themselves and others. Having very much lived in very close proximity to those individuals, I virtually lost count of the mishaps and damages to those “influencers” lives.²

Every time I tried to make influencers grow aware of the damage they’re doing to themselves and to others, I found many growing defensive as if not capable of facing reality and the guilt of their “ill doing.”

It is established that mental health disorders are at least as contagious as physical diseases. When you have social influencers with a host of mental health disorders you would also expect their followers to fall prey to their diseases. As influencers spiral down mentally so do their followers spreading pandemic at much faster rate. Considering that most influencers have thousands and millions of followers, one can only imagine how much damage one “unhealthy” influencer can cause.

If we add other diseases spread through other web categories such as gaming or hacking, the picture looks even bleaker.

Couple of years ago, the world was shocked by the gruesome murder of a journalist at the consulate of his country. The body was allegedly dismembered and disposed of in most barbaric fashion.

Little did we know that the entire crime was ordered and masterminded by the victim’s country’s leader who grew up an addict to online gaming. While about one third of the population of that oil rich country are considered below poverty line, that murderer heir was wasting billions of dollars of his country’s wealth on online gaming investments.