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The Berkeley Beacon

#Insta-sad: romanticization of mental health on social media

By Brittanny Adames
November 8, 2017

When I was first diagnosed with depression in middle school, there was a time during which I sought harmful images on sites like Tumblr as a way to glorify my own mental illness. Though I wrote poetry...

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