I know this should have been posted almost six weeks ago but I have decided to deactivate my Facebook account for now.
Why am I deactivating my account?
Why am I deactivating?
The not being on Facebook has actually been good for my mental health. I am in a place of recovery and not in a place where I would say it was safe for me to go back onto Facebook. You can hear where I was with my post about why I was giving up Facebook for Lent. I have calmed down, I get my news in a more controlled mode, instead of widely googling and checking up on facts brought up on Facebook.While I do miss interactions on Facebook with friends I also do not miss the helpless anxiety it was engendering in me. I was getting overloaded. I did do some of the thinking and you can read that in the following blog posts:
There should be others but Lent as it always does, just got busier and I did not get the space on a Monday to write the reflections.
Why am I deactivating and not deleting?
As I say I value friends on Facebook. There are some who do not have other contacts, there are a couple of messenger groups I act as an unofficial moderator to. I am extremely light as a moderator, I think I have acted three times in five years but I am there. I will both be contactable through Messenger and able to do that moderating if necessary. It is a compromise and at present I am not really happy with compromises but it seems the sensible way to do it at present.
This makes perfect sense, Jean. But you’ll be missed!
go well.