It's not about celebrities. It's about everyone. You got that part, right? This isn't just about Robbie Farah. It's about an alarming trend online that affects life. That is not just solved by 'suck it up and move on'.
Did you enjoy being bullied? Did it affect you? If there was a way of eradicating it, would you have taken it? Or did you just say oh well, such is life. I imagine I know the answer.
Who cares if it's the internet. It's the same as it being said face to face. It's still human interaction. That's some people's problem on here - they think people on here are robots or some from other dimension. It's not.
I'm unpleasantly surprised by the level of idiocy on this thread. The 'suck it up' fools are the same ones that say 'cheer up' to sufferers of depression. They're only blissfully unaware because it hasn't affected them directly. I can only hope some on here don't have their opinion changed by that situation changing.
Bullshit its the same as being face to face. Theres a thing called the block/ignore feature on the internet. You dont get that from face to face bullies.
Bullying in real life f**ked me up beyond repair. Bullying on the internet is nothing f**king like it.
As a person who has received both, i will take what that person said to Robbie 'Whinge' Farah any day of the week.
You trying to latch onto "suck it up" to people who say "cheer up" to people with mental imbalances is a fallacy pure and simple.
I would tell Robbie Farah and Dawson to "harden up & use the block feature" and not only would i never say "cheer up" to a person with a mental disorder, i wouldnt like hearing it if somebody said it to me on here because i have one. But i wouldnt complain to mods or reach for the razor blades either.
You can't bully someone who is in a sound mental state into killing themselves. They have to start off already with a lot of mental issues and only then can something like bullying, teasing etc lead to them attempting such a thing.
However mental health is too big of an issue for people to get their heads around, so instead they just like to point the finger at easy targets like bullying to explain away something as horrible as suicide.
I wouldnt agree with this unless it has an '*' *=unless the bullying lasts an extended period of time.
Bullying can land people who were cheery/happy into mentally ill land in a year or two
Shhh.... Our countries resources are better spent trying to fight global online crime - not actually going into providing better care and services in mental health!
Jesus our health care in this is an abomination
