[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Barry.

Yes they can. You can’t dismiss all the suicides caused by online abuse. It’s called that for a reason

People who take their own lives don't do it purely because they read unkind words in their notification tab.

The mental ill-health which leads to suicide could have any number of triggers, and if it wasn't the "abuse", it would be something else.

Again, I'm not excusing when people send mean words, but it would never be just that.

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

People who take their own lives don't do it purely because they read unkind words in their notification tab.

The mental ill-health which leads to suicide could have any number of triggers, and if it wasn't the "abuse", it would be something else.

Again, I'm not excusing when people send mean words, but it would never be just that.

not just mean words though, some of these lowest of the low scum even tell those people to kill themselves


but i can tell you haven't watched any of the films about cyberbullying

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

but i can tell you haven't watched any of the films about cyberbullying

Not like you eh, I bet you've even seen Adolescence!!

[Ammi]

…a ‘sticks and stones’ mindset doesn’t really apply to cyber bullying because that concept of ‘words can’t harm in a physical sense’ precedes the internet …even in its own defining, it doesn’t claim accuracy as words to carry much weight and power and especially with regards to mental health…cyberbullying is such a modern and new thing in our world that I don’t think that we can say what it’s part is in thoughts of suicide…we do know that in the world of psychology, the direct link is taken seriously enough though to create many papers to be written and much research into it and to give a name of ‘cyberbullicide’ …in this world of words on screens that we live in, it makes complete sense that words have a power and influence and consequence etc that they haven’t necessarily had at any point in time before the internet …

[Candy Annie Cane]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

People who take their own lives don't do it purely because they read unkind words in their notification tab.

The mental ill-health which leads to suicide could have any number of triggers, and if it wasn't the "abuse", it would be something else.

Again, I'm not excusing when people send mean words, but it would never be just that.

The fact is it is abuse. If someone says something about a person's race, its racial abuse etc etc.

The literal definition of the word abuse is "to use (something) to bad effect or for a bad purpose". The something in the case of online abuse is words

You may be thick skinned to not have words affect you....some people however take those things to heart, especially when it is repeated and constant.

As Ben said, you don't reach 18 and then a switch in your brain happens and suddenly you stop feeling

[The Grinch]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

People who take their own lives don't do it purely because they read unkind words in their notification tab.

The mental ill-health which leads to suicide could have any number of triggers, and if it wasn't the "abuse", it would be something else.

Again, I'm not excusing when people send mean words, but it would never be just that.

I’m guessing you didn’t read the woman who committed suicide for online ABUSE this year them? Or you think you know better than professionals

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Barry.

I’m guessing you didn’t read the woman who committed suicide for online ABUSE this year them? Or you think you know better than professionals

Was she a well-adjusted woman with perfect mental health and an otherwise good life?

[Candy Annie Cane]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Was she a well-adjusted woman with perfect mental health and an otherwise good life?

She quite possibly could have been.

What you have to think about is the sheer volume of comments posts attract. If you walk down the street and someone yells racist / homophobic / sexist / ageist whatever comments at you, it is heard by you and whoever else happens to be around and hear (ie a handful of people). If someone says the same words on an online platform it has a potential audience of millions. The anonymous element of it also emboldens others to hurl abusive words too and the snowball effect grows. You wake up to tens of hundreds of awful messages aimed directly at you and not let it affect you - whether you are a strong, mentally healthy individual at some point that **** will wear you down and if you said it wouldn't I wouldn't believe you.

[Merry Mockmas]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

She quite possibly could have been.

What you have to think about is the sheer volume of comments posts attract. If you walk down the street and someone yells racist / homophobic / sexist / ageist whatever comments at you, it is heard by you and whoever else happens to be around and hear (ie a handful of people). If someone says the same words on an online platform it has a potential audience of millions. The anonymous element of it also emboldens others to hurl abusive words too and the snowball effect grows. You wake up to tens of hundreds of awful messages aimed directly at you and not let it affect you - whether you are a strong, mentally healthy individual at some point that **** will wear you down and if you said it wouldn't I wouldn't believe you.

Fair point.

Tbh, I hadn't really thought of it like this until reading this post.

[The Grinch]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Was she a well-adjusted woman with perfect mental health and an otherwise good life?

She had a rescue centre for animals so I’m guessing she loved doing what she did. Her husband said it was the online abuse that killed her. The man in her life will know more about her life than others so yes, it was online abuse that killed her

[Merry Mockmas]

Originally Posted by Barry.

She had a rescue centre for animals so I’m guessing she loved doing what she did. Her husband said it was the online abuse that killed her. The man in her life will know more about her life than others so yes, it was online abuse that killed her

That case is really tragic.