26/12/2022
Written by : mariam ramadan
Asking Dr/Mohamed Elshbrawy about Idealizing the Image of influencers how it Impact the Mental health of the viewers
Introduction: Dr/ Mohamed Elshbrawy Head of the Department of psychiatry in Elmowazfen hospital, He graduated from Al-Azhar Medicine, Class of 2002 and He holds a Master’s Degree in psychology From Ain Shams University.
A: Can you introduce yourself to us?
B: Dr. Muhammad Al-Shabrawy, Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology
A: You are welcome
B: Hello, Becky
A: We will talk about the ideal image that the content makers present, and how it negatively affects the viewers.
First question: What do you think of the phenomenon of influencers?
B: In fact, this is a new phenomenon in Egyptian society. We see that it has more negative aspects than positive ones. One of the negatives in it is that all people can see it and it enters the homes of all people, not like some TV programs or channels in which a person in this situation can change the channel or stay away. Regarding unwanted programs, the content of influencers has spread to a large extent in the recent period, and it has taken a lot of people’s time and reached the age of teenagers, and the content is not all purposeful.
This phenomenon must exist because the whole world depends on phenomena
No phenomenon will not happen whether (social, cosmic, or human). The whole world is now going through phenomena that may differ according to the people who present this phenomenon, but it is like a phenomenon that must happen. It lives and continues for long periods. As for the negative phenomenon, like the person who has no talent, it will appear for a while with show and fanfare and disappear at all times. I think that the phenomenon of influencers will not exist very soon because people will be more aware because the story is not just the content of the story further than that, I think that there are people who benefit from these things directly, financially, in return for this, there are people who lose a lot by wasting their time watching harmful and unnecessary things.
The issue is more related to the environment or the upbringing of the house from my point of view if you ask me how we can avoid these things.
I will tell you that it is difficult because we are now in a world of the open skies, the open Internet, and terrible technological progress.
A: Especially since they are not being supervised or cencorshiped
B: Of course, these are things that remain open to everyone, and enter every home and every room, with different and attractive contents, and they can attract young and old age as well, even intellectuals, athletes, and so on. Others have to accept it against their will, even with the bad social conditions that some people are going through, so they are forced to imitate or have the desire to acquire the same things to be like the majority.
A: There will be social pressure on them.
B: This causes a bad psychological effect on the person who is not conscious and does not realize that it is not his time to think about these things, especially if he is in the education stage, so it should be the most important thing he thinks about.
Unfortunately, anyone who sees these things wants to promote the same idea and the same content and have the same followers to brag about and keep an entrance to him through social media. He enters a more famous field such as the field of media, sports, etc. Other than that, this financial income is another side.
Unfortunately, this story affects people who are psychologically weak or who suffer from mental illnesses such as psychological disorders, so they believe anything they see. People who suffer from depression find an opportunity to leave the society they are in for another society because they do not like the reality they are living in. In it, he gets more depressed because he is not interested in anything from this society. People who suffer from insomnia or lack of sleep will sit and watch these things. He will not search for religious rituals or things that help him sleep. Obscene without fatigue or effort and follows these contents. It can also provide content outside of it and does not contain the values or principles of society to achieve more profit. This is present in some foreign channels and well-known programs in Egypt. Nowadays, people are starting to understand a little and take care of them from their children, especially at a young age in watching mobiles and the internet
Because this topic pulled people away from learning and innovation and TV and distracted them from sports and religious values. There are no good models that you can rely on. On the contrary, the bad ones are much more because there is always more shedding light on influencers. After all, they attract the eye and have attractiveness and exciting needs.
The truth is that once I hear that there will be censorship of these contents
A: Will there be censorship, for example?
B: Some websites say that there will be control, and the state’s hours also say that in the era we are in, this is difficult, very difficult unless there is internal control from the head of the family, from the school, and university, from the mosque, the church, and the club, and the principles of religion come back again, and this will not work at all with open programs.
My advice to people who present this content is to take into account our Lord a little bit in it, and not to think that it will only achieve material gains or that I will have many followers.
Because this story extends and spreads between different cultures and countries, the topic is not limited to a specific country or homeland, the issue reaches the whole world
Therefore, if you do not control your eyes, your heart, and your style of life, and if you succeed, you are the first in the place where you are. After that, the money will come, the fame will come, and the followers will come. Satisfaction with success is a very important thing that we must strive for.
A: Do you see that they are really useful tools in the field of persuading people or directing them to a specific need?
B: They are clever in the field of persuading people, with the evidence that people follow them for long periods, earn a lot, and take more than their right to followers, uh, of course.
A: So, what are the negative effects that we are affected by when we see the ideal life for them?
B: If we remain, especially young people and adolescents, they will always want to imitate and remain like them. Therefore, if they do not have the same capabilities and means, they will not be able to imitate and remain like him. Therefore, he will enter into depression and frustration. He will leave his studies and the sports in which he was successful. He will not see the future after a few years. He will always have a pot under his feet, and he will want whoever sees this to do it, and he will still want this life to be his own, and this is of course a very negative effect, and it is not true.
A: So, why am I convinced that I have a deficiency at a certain point because I influence the ideal life that he shows, even though I may be knowing inside of me that this is acting?
B: Exactly, it is a moment of weakness for a person, a very difficult moment that can make him change the course of his life and be convinced of incorrect ideas, believe wrong beliefs, and enter into bouts of depression and frustration without any reason at all, he may remain incomprehensible, unaware, or young in any age There was, however, a moment of weakness for any person who came out of a bad experience in his life, whether it was material, emotional, or otherwise, it remains exactly like b***y or a very easy opportunity. Or it is not his own, but he wants to live the same life with the same capabilities, and he is no less than others at this time, and this is wrong of course. These are talents, and may God give them to each one according to his capabilities. Everyone must be convinced that what is not in the hands of others is yours. You are your share, livelihood, or success, and so on
A: We are not all alike
B: All right
A: If I found someone close to me who had this and was negatively affected, how can I make him aware?
B: By God, the truth is that it is difficult to educate him because he still has a stronger belief and conviction than the role of educating. We are his brother-in-law who lives the experience and he is convinced that this is not true. From around him. He sees the people who are succeeding with their efforts. He sees the future from around him. He sees that these things are out of his age. For example, if you see a child smoking at the age of 10, you will be upset with him. Age makes a difference in this story. If they are in adolescence, they young age must experience and see all the experiences of life. The experiences are not bad, but it remains an experience that does not become a continuity. There is no objection to a person trying something once and judging it.
A: All right, thank you very much for your presence
B: At your command
Link of The Article On word press:
https://spilloverr.wordpress.com/2022/12/04/asking-dr-mohamed-elshbrawy-about- idealizing-the-image-of-influencers-how-it-impact-the-mental-health-of-the-viewers/
