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13 Dec 07, 1:52 PM - 'Irresponsible' Facebook mental health quiz
will probably be marked out as one of this year's biggest successes. Just about everyone's on it. Your friends. Your family. Even and our very own couldn't resist its lure.
But now mental health charity has released a strongly-worded statement criticising an online mental health quiz featured on the social networking site. It's called "What mental disorder do you have?", and it invites users to answer questions to find out if they or their friends have a mental health problem. It even says "C'mon, we know you must have something!"
Oh, but it gets worse. At the end of the quiz, the person is given a 'diagnosis'. People with manic depression are advised to "start living" and "eat lots of fast food and candy", whilst those diagnosed with OCD get the message "Relax! You have OCD and it's annoying everyone you come in contact with!" Nice, eh?
Rethink are calling for the Facebook bosses to remove this particular application immediately.
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At 04:29 PM on 13 Dec 2007, wrote:
Have Rethink really never seen that online quiz before it made it's way onto Facebook?
That quiz has been floating round the net before Facebook was even a twinkle in it's creator's mind.
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At 04:08 PM on 21 Dec 2007, David wrote:
I have a mental illness that is professionally diagnosed and a registered disability. I also use Facebook regularly. I saw the quiz, did it, and the answer was completely wrong. However, I am not stupid and I knew it was only a bit of fun, like a horoscope: banning this article would be taking it too seriously. censorship never works.
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