Beauty Influencers Sharing Mental Health Problems for Profit
Here's what's happening on the HealthyPlace site this week:
- Beauty Influencers Sharing Mental Health Problems for Profit
- Are Your Online Mental Health Sources Trustworthy?
- From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
- Video: Success with Bipolar 2 Disorder is What You Make It
- Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
- Mental Health Quote
Beauty Influencers Sharing Mental Health Problems for Profit
Have you noticed that people are increasingly sharing mental health tips online? In large part, this is a good thing. In some instances, though, it might not be good.
YouTube in particular has become a platform for celebrities and influencers to impart their wisdom on their followers. A wildly popular trend is beauty vlogging, in which YouTube celebs share information about how the rest of us can look and live like them. Some beauty vloggers have ventured into the realm of mental health, sharing advice for de-stressing, dealing with depression and anxiety, and more.
On the surface, there’s nothing wrong with this. Sometimes, though, questionable motives lie beneath the surface. Often, beauty vloggers are selling products, either their own lines or products of their sponsors.
Their message is this: beauty involves self-care for mental health; using the beauty vlogger’s products will let you create a perfect, mentally healthy life; when this doesn’t work, return to the vlog for more product recommendations.
Are Your Online Mental Health Sources Trustworthy?
Not every vlogger has a financial motive, of course, and not every online mental health resource is corrupt. This is simply a growing trend to be aware of.
At HealthyPlace, one of our primary goals is providing trustworthy mental health information to our readers and followers. Our mental health bloggers and vloggers have lived experience with the mental health condition they write/vlog about. We pay them directly for their insight; our bloggers and vloggers have no contact with advertisers nor do they push products or services. HealthyPlace offers pure mental health content you can trust.
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- Celebrities with Mental Illness Who Made a Difference
- I Need Mental Health: Where To Find Mental Health Help
- Mental Disease: Is Mental Illness a Real Disease
- Self-Care and Your Mental Health
Your Thoughts
Today's Question: What do you think about beauty vloggers revealing personal mental health stories as a way to sell products and make a profit? We invite you to participate by sharing your thoughts, knowledge, and experiences on the HealthyPlace Facebook page and on the HealthyPlace Google+ page.
From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
On all our blogs, your comments and observations are welcomed.
- Finding Inspiration in a Mental Hospital
- How to Cope When You Don’t Have Control
- Ending Verbal Abuse: Five Steps to Take
- How to Respond to Mental Health Stigma If You’re Frustrated
- How We Change the World for Our Children With Mental Illness
- Gratefulness as a Binge Eating Recovery Tool
- Watching My Weight On a Schizophrenia Medication
- How To Sit Through a Panic Attack When You Can’t Leave
- 7 Quick Ways to Use Nature to Help Treat Anxiety
- Pursuing Dreams and Setting Goals With a Mental Illness
- Bipolar Disorder and Faking Happiness
- Adult ADHD and Urgency: Dealing With a Now or Never Impulse
- Bipolar’s Racing Thoughts Can Bring Up Bad Memories
Feel free to share your thoughts and comments at the bottom of any blog post. And visit the mental health blogs homepage for the latest posts.
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From HealthyPlace YouTube Channel
Success with Bipolar 2 Disorder is What You Make It
“Success, when you’re living with bipolar disorder, is what you make it. You have to define your own success.”
Living with bipolar disorder and ADHD. Imagine that challenge. (Watch Hannah)
I’m Veronica. This is My Life with Depression
In an emotionally powerful video, Veronica shares what led to the start of her depression 15+ years ago. “I was sexually assaulted when I was in high school...by a friend. That's hard for me to say.”
Watch. Share your thoughts and experiences with this subject on the HealthyPlace YouTube channel.
Veronica is sharing this part of her story because “I know there are many people who cannot and maybe I can help them feel a little less alone.”
Sexual Assault Led to My Depression
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Facebook Live This Wednesday
It is National Suicide Prevention Week. Therapist, Emily Roberts, will be taking your personal questions on depression, suicide issues, and mental health in general. We start at 7p CT / 8 ET. I hope you’ll join us and feel free to invite others. You can check out last week’s mental health Facebook Live here.
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Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
Here are the top 3 mental health articles HealthyPlace Facebook fans are recommending you read:
- Keep Moving Forward Toward Bliss by Taking Care of Yourself
- Don’t Let Travel Anxiety and PTSD Trap You at Home
- Caring for Your Mental Health While Traveling
If you're not already, I hope you'll join us/like us on Facebook too. There are a lot of wonderful, supportive people there.
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Mental Health Quote
"Felling like you´re about to cry when someone points out you´re doing something wrong."
Read more anxiety quotes.
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APA Reference
Peterson, T.
(2017, September 11). Beauty Influencers Sharing Mental Health Problems for Profit, HealthyPlace. Retrieved
on 2024, November 5 from https://www.healthyplace.com/other-info/mental-health-newsletter/beauty-influencers-sharing-mental-health-problems-for-profit