Tumblr and Mental Health

Examining Online Mental Health Communities

Synthia Stark
Preoccupy Negative Thoughts
3 min readNov 7, 2020

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Photo by Anh Le on Unsplash

As I work towards becoming an aspiring therapist, I am constantly thinking about the various mental health sub-cultures that exist online. These include the support groups or fandoms on websites like Tumblr, Reddit, or even YouTube.

Here, we will briefly examine the subculture of Tumblr.

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Synthia Stark
Preoccupy Negative Thoughts

Canadian Therapist & Former Researcher | 5x Top Writer | Writing about mental health, psychology, science, etc. https://linktr.ee/SynthiaS