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Anyone seen the Instagram effect on BBC last night ? Still available on iPlayer to catch up. Lots about how influential these influencers are to younger audiences developing things like eating disorders etc.
I myself struggle with MH and Hinchs platform has a lot to answer for. After having my miracle son i felt like I was drowning (especially going through a global pandemic) i followed Hinch and was genuinely surprised that she was a mother to a boy close to my age and still managing to have a prestine house and do all these obscure weaning recipes when I just about managed a 5 minute shower per day. I couldn't do the exciting weaning as my son suffers with extreme allergies and I would blame myself everytime he got sick. I bought her book thinking it would help....it did not. As the days went on and i found this thread I could see the truth for what it is. I however still do struggle mentally from seeing Hinch and what she portrays. The perfect looking house, never worrying about bills, a body i could only dream of without any evidence of her exercising ever ? Two perfectly healthy little boys that she pushes to one side because playing tend Disneyland is more important to her. I could go on. She is just so damaging for so many people and I'll never forget when she said a GP wish they could bottle her up and prescribe her for mental health issues. All she has done is made mine worse !
I have just watched it. Nothing much I didnāt already know but I really think people should watch it if they havenāt already seen the light!
I was a new Mum in the1990ās before OCD was diagnosed. I had to have the house immaculate. With a new baby, that meant cleaning floors at 4am. My PND raged for 5 months undiagnosed and was the start of 26 years of anti depressants. By early 2000ās I was so consumed with the anxiety and the OCD that Iāve been unable to work. Tried to end my life on a couple of occasions but couldnāt go through with it.
I can clean obsessively and it can last weeks before I burn myself out. Then one of my other obsessions will replace it and so it continues. I would never post manic cleaning on Instagram as I would rather people were mentally and physically healthy than a slave to an unachievable obsessive lifestyle. I have never had time for professional Influencers as they annoy the hell out of me lying to people. I followed Hinch before Ronnie half out of amusement to see how she maintained the āshow homeā with a newborn. I felt sorry for her when she had a few meltdowns and the ātrollingā she was sobbing about. Then the Pandemic hit us and I had no patience for any pretentious bullshit. Slowly I began to investigate the dark secrets of influencing - some of it through here, some of it through my software engineer. Itās led me to various books/documentaries and made me very cynical.
But it deeply concerns me to read stories like this and the effect that the ācorporate bullshit practice of hiding behind these fake personalities so that people are made to feel inadequate if they donāt purchase what theyāre sellingā is having on people!!
Motherhood is the most trying experience. You get no training but plenty of people ready to sit in judgement on you. To try and burn the candles at both ends trying to keep up with the āperfect lifeā is damaging to Mother and child. Both my kids have anxiety - one has OCD. I hate myself for that because I wasnāt strong enough to protect them from exposure to my illnesses. So I may not be calling Hinch for all the names under the sun but I DO want to call out the bullshit pretence and flag this up
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in the hope that if just one vulnerable person sees the light, it is worth it.
The biggest of hugs to you and I hope your mental health is recovered
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Live your best life and let things go. Never met anyone yet who uttered the words āI wish Iād cleaned more!ā on their deathbed!!
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