Online Harassment: Here What You Need To Know

 Online harassment - from a fake account to hateful slurs and death threats - is all began with the introduction of social media itself. However, this problem is growing at a slow pace. This abuse poses a great threat to the victim's private and social life. They keep feeling depressed, lost their well-paid jobs or even landlord force them to move out leaving them homeless at the end.

Online bullying can happen to any age group. However, it is common in adolescent and teen as they don't know how they are treated in online media. The major symptoms a child shows when they are bullying in social media are:

• Being upset and emotional while using Social Media
• Get nervous easily while receiving text and messages
• Unwilling to share information about online accounts
• Unexplained weight loss or weight gain, have headache or trouble in eating
• Suddenly became anti-social
• Making a passing statement about committing suicide

These are some of the symptoms that not only a child but adults also show. But bearing the pain in silence is not the option. Cyberbullying or harassment is a buzzword in the online platform. There are many laws that help you to report against them.

Understanding The Mental Condition Of LGBT Children

Although gay and lesbian marriage is legal in India now, LGBT people still face stigma and discrimination from common people. LGBT comprise of Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups. Society can't accept them. The neighbours and even relatives keep on saying negative words about their sexuality. These negative experiences will lead most of the LGBT children to depression.

Think of a situation, an adolescent gay child is attracted to his peer and confess his feelings to him. But in contrast to polite rejection, the same boy keeps on insulting and bullying him for no reason. What mental state of this child be? This is a common scenario for most LGBT children. Almost all of them have faced a more or less similar situation. But this is not the thing they choose for themselves. Sexual orientation is a part of adolescence and we should respect their feelings.

How Parental Depression Affect Child's Mental Health?

Raising a child is a challenge for a depressed parent. It can wreak the physic and mental health of a child. 

Parental depression can leads to a series of negative outcome for the whole family. In the toxic environment where child grew up, will leads to bad personality. Either they became quite or aggressive.