Mental health issues are becoming increasingly relevant to everyday discourse, and why shouldn't they be? Yes, the changing and relatively unpredictable conditions of today's world also have an impact on our ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving: that is, how we experience the world.

The increasingly massive access to devices connected to the internet, a virtually infinite source of information, can be considered one of the most important factors of our time: Never before have we been so connected. Does this affect our mental health in any way?

In our vicarious trauma training course, we will explore the argument that this is the case, and using more recent theories and evidence we will try to explain why. The idea is to become aware of the impact of the internet on mental health so that from there we can take charge of its influence and learn to take care of our well-being in a context of hyperconnection.

For this, first of all, we will explore the concept of mental illnesses that occupy the collective imagination, to see its problems and be able to propose a viable alternative. For this, in our mental health awareness courses, we will discuss what we understand by diagnosis, and how we understand the causes of mental illnesses, and we will propose a perspective on these that understands them as vicious circles through the network theory of mental illnesses.

Once these foundations have been laid, and to give way to the impact of the internet on our mental health, we will try to answer the questions: what are emotions? And what can we do with them when they come? A concept usually called emotional regulation. We will see why we can sometimes feel our emotions as problematic and to what extent the context of Internet connectivity can modify them, and modify our relationship with them.

With this in mind, we will try to thematize how we relate to the internet by understanding what possibilities of action it offers us for example, distracting ourselves from our problems, monitoring what is happening in our social world, etc., and how actions What emerges from them, together with our intentions, can operate as maintainers of some vicious circles of mental health problems. We will see then, how the Internet operates in our emotional regulation processes.

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