Does social media share our concerns or fuel our anxiety?
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Does social media share our concerns or fuel our anxiety?

Leanne Patrick Mental health nurse, Community drug and alcohol service, NHS Forth Valley, and project coordinator, The Mental Elf

As the public looks for healthcare guidance online, it is more important than ever that nurses choose their words wisely

In Man’s Search for Meaning the author, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl, describes his life as a prisoner in a concentration camp during the second world war. He believed that, in the most dire circumstances, finding a sense of meaning or purpose is the key to enduring and surviving great pain and suffering.

Nursing Standard. 35, 5, 29-30. doi: 10.7748/ns.35.5.29.s15

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