Insecure connections: Love and mental health in our digital lives
summary
Links between romance and bipolar disorder get concrete data: suicide attempts ~15–50% and 1–3% population prevalence, group chats and encrypted apps like Signal and WhatsApp are used to coordinate care, disappearing messages support intimacy, a homebuilt VLC sync tool reliably synchronizes remote video viewing, DRM and region locks on ebooks break gift-giving, Harry Potter audiobooks act as life‑saving comfort, and medical tech like Abilify MyCite raises privacy and consent risks.
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chapters (25)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:18About Molly
- 1:55Bipolar disorder
- 3:40England
- 4:41United States
- 5:56Love and mental health
- 7:25Friends
- 7:56Our networks
- 13:01Cozy spaces
- 14:33Trans youth
- 15:30Interoperability
- 15:51Emoji
- 17:12Brain injuries
- 18:49Technology and relationships
- 25:51Harry Potter
- 28:10Abilify MySite
- 33:32Software freedom
- 34:20Consent
- 35:26Trust
- 35:51Technology
- 36:48Free software
- 37:58Conclusion
- 41:20Our job
- 42:18Technology issues
- 43:28Outro
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