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When your deceased sibling's old social media posts reveal mental health struggles you missed

I found out my sister was depressed from reading her old tweets after she died and I feel guilty that I never saw the signs when she was posting them in real time.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Social media histories can preserve evidence of suffering that loved ones failed to recognize, creating retrospective guilt.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Social media memorialization?”

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