ProAna Worlds: Affectivity and Echo Chambers Online

Osler, Lucy; Krueger, Joel

doi:10.1007/s11245-021-09785-8

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“…It should also be noted that experiences of social disconnectedness can flow from a disorder due to stigmatization. In certain instances, we might not want to suggest that feelings of isolation, disconnection, and loneliness are necessarily a core characteristic of a disorder while also recognizing how the stigmatization of various "mental health" disorders can leave individuals at risk of social exclusion and social stereotyping (Osler and Krueger, 2021).…”

Section: Social Disconnection Depression and Other Disordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“An illness of isolation, a disease of disconnection”: Depression and the erosion of we-experiences

Osler

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Depression is an affective disorder involving a significant change in an individual’s emotional and affective experiences. While the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM) mentions that social impairment may occur in depression, first-person reports of depression consistently name isolation from others as a key feature of depression. I present a phenomenological analysis of how certain interpersonal relations are experienced in depression. In particular, I consider whether depressed individuals are able to enter into “we-experiences” with other people. We-experiences are experiences had with two or more people as a we (rather than having an experience as an I), experiences that allow one to enter into robustly shared experiences with others. I claim that the ability to enter into we-experiences (both actual and habitual) is eroded in depression due to an overwhelming feeling of being different to and misunderstood by others. As such, I suggest that depression should be conceived of as fixing an individual in their first-person singular perspective, thus inhibiting their ability to experience in the first-person plural and to feel a sense of connectedness or togetherness with others as part of a we. By attending to on-going impacts of a diminished ability to enter into we-experiences, we can provide a situated and more nuanced account of the changes of interpersonal relations in depression that captures the progressive (rather than static) nature of the disorder. In turn, this analysis furthers our understanding of the emergence, frustration, and erosion of actual and habitual we-experiences.

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Section: Social Disconnection Depression and Other Disordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“An illness of isolation, a disease of disconnection”: Depression and the erosion of we-experiences

Osler

2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…In a recent study [11] on sources of health misinformation on the Internet, including misinformation about eating disorders, the authors warned of the echo chamber effect that online anorexia and bulimia nervosa communities promoting pro-eating disorder identities have on their members. Another study [12] describes these communities as authentic shared worlds for their members, which support and sustain the epistemic and affective dimensions of anorexia nervosa, as well as the role they play in maintaining the disorder through their intersubjective dimension and echo chamber effect. Evidence has also been found for this effect on pro-anorexia communities on Twitter as opposed to communities that support efforts to recover from the disease.…”

Section: Echo Chambers and Filter Bubblesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perspective Chapter: Social Networks and Eating Disorders - Beauty and the Beast?

Castillo¹,

Martínez-Quiñones²,

Jáuregui‐Lobera³

2023

Recent Updates in Eating Disorders

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Currently, social networks are part of the lives of adolescents, who make intensive use of them to relate to each other and to the world, making them a major factor in socialization. This has led to a great deal of scientific research on the influence of this means of communication in many areas of the life and development of adolescents, especially in the field of both physical and mental health. This paper reviews some relevant psychological phenomena associated with the use of social networks to understand their influence on adolescent behaviour; the main psychosocial risk factors for problematic internet use at this stage and their possible relationship with eating disorders based on recent research findings; as well as some proposals adopted within the European Union and in Spanish legislation for the control of harmful content on the Internet, especially those related to the advocacy of anorexia and bulimia, which until very recently escaped any possibility of control despite their importance for public health. Finally, we briefly discuss the potential of technology to implement these controls and present a research project for the detection and neutralization of apology of ED on Twitter, funded and implemented by the APE Foundation with the collaboration of the University of Zaragoza.

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“…But as we'll see, it does reinforce the need to adopt phenomenologically richer relational and multidimensional approaches to AN and eating disorders more generally. These approaches move beyond individualistic perspectives -which focus on things like genetic or psychological predispositions, or disturbances of body-related perceptions and experiences -and instead adopt a more holistic view of how contextual and relational factors give rise to and support disordered eating (Osler 2021b;Osler and Krueger 2021).…”

Section: Loneliness and Depressionmentioning

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Loneliness and Absence in Psychopathology

Krueger

Osler

Roberts

2023

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Loneliness is a near-universal experience. It is particularly common for individuals with (so-called) psychopathological conditions or disorders. In this paper, we explore the experiential character of loneliness, with a specific emphasis on how social goods are experienced as absent in ways that involve a diminished sense of agency and recognition. We explore the role and experience of loneliness in three case studies: depression, anorexia nervosa, and autism. We demonstrate that even though experiences of loneliness might be common to many psychopathologies, these experiences nevertheless have distinctive profiles. Specifically, we suggest that: (i) loneliness is often a core characteristic of depressive experience; (ii) loneliness can drive, and even cement, disordered eating practices and anorectic identity in anorexia nervosa; iii) loneliness is neither a core characteristic of autism nor a driver but is rather commonly experienced as stemming from social worlds, environments, and norms that fail to accommodate autistic bodies and their distinctive forms of life. We aim to do justice to the pervasiveness of loneliness in many — if not all — psychopathologies, while also highlighting the need to attend to psychopathology-specific experiences of loneliness, agency, and (non-)recognition.

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ProAna Worlds: Affectivity and Echo Chambers Online

Cited by 12 publications

References 40 publications

“An illness of isolation, a disease of disconnection”: Depression and the erosion of we-experiences

“An illness of isolation, a disease of disconnection”: Depression and the erosion of we-experiences

Perspective Chapter: Social Networks and Eating Disorders - Beauty and the Beast?

Loneliness and Absence in Psychopathology

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