Re: [TV orNotTV] Death of Caroline Flack [Was: Love Island" host steps down]

2020-02-17 Thread Tom Wolper
On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 6:05 AM Adam Bowie wrote: > I can't begin to think about how tough it must be to be a young person in > today's world of social media. While bullying has always happened, at least > you could largely leave it behind at the school gates at the end of the > day. Today it's

Re: [TV orNotTV] Death of Caroline Flack [Was: Love Island" host steps down]

2020-02-17 Thread Adam Bowie
Correction: Reading a little more about Caroline Flack, I realise that I was wrong to say that she had not talked about her suffer mental health issues in public previously. In fact she had, been quite public about some of those issues. I don't think that this was necessarily a case of mental

Re: [TV orNotTV] Death of Caroline Flack [Was: Love Island" host steps down]

2020-02-17 Thread Adam Bowie
I can't begin to think about how tough it must be to be a young person in today's world of social media. While bullying has always happened, at least you could largely leave it behind at the school gates at the end of the day. Today it's 24/7 with jokes and memes being shared, to which you may or

Re: [TV orNotTV] Death of Caroline Flack [Was: Love Island" host steps down]

2020-02-16 Thread PGage
I treat depressed and suicidal patients every day, and frequently have to decide whether to involuntarily hospitalize people. So I have a deep interest in these issues. I run a group for depressed young adults (18-25), and a frequent topic is the impact of social media in a number of ways. If you

Re: [TV orNotTV] Death of Caroline Flack [Was: Love Island" host steps down]

2020-02-16 Thread Adam Bowie
I'm not aware that she had any specific mental health issues - at least none that were widely reported. But the implication that is being widely insinuated is that it was pressure from the press or social media that drove her to take the path she did. In general, I think the over-riding tone is

Re: [TV orNotTV] Death of Caroline Flack [Was: Love Island" host steps down]

2020-02-16 Thread PGage
Thanks for this Adam (and to Brad for the link to the video summary), it does help me get a sense of what is going on. What I am still unclear about is this: Was Ms Flack known to have mental health struggles prior to her death, and was this part of what she was being bullied about? Or are people

Re: [TV orNotTV] Death of Caroline Flack [Was: Love Island" host steps down]

2020-02-16 Thread Adam Bowie
It's unlikely that most of this group will know who she is unless they watch the UK original version of Love Island which I think is on Netflix Stateside, where I believe it does fairly well. And I should preface all of this by saying that I never watched Love Island, and I don't make a habit of

RE: [TV orNotTV] Death of Caroline Flack [Was: Love Island" host steps down]

2020-02-16 Thread Brad Beam
From: tvornottv@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvornottv@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joe Hass >I'll yield to our British correspondent for more info, but the sense I >gathered is that the domestic incident caused her to draw more and more inward. Here’s a bit of a primer from Channel 4:

Re: [TV orNotTV] Death of Caroline Flack [Was: Love Island" host steps down]

2020-02-16 Thread Joe Hass
I'll yield to our British correspondent for more info, but the sense I gathered is that the domestic incident caused her to draw more and more inward. On Sun, Feb 16, 2020, 18:25 PGage wrote: > I don’t recall knowing anything about her or her show; had to search our > archives to find this note

Re: [TV orNotTV] Death of Caroline Flack [Was: Love Island" host steps down]

2020-02-16 Thread PGage
I don’t recall knowing anything about her or her show; had to search our archives to find this note posted by Bob a few months ago. But my Twitter feed has been full of posts relating this to social attitudes about mental illness, which got my attention. Does anyone here have more context on this