Social Media Is Redefining #Depression

A few months ago, Laura U., a typical 16year old at an international school in Paris, sat at her computer wishing she looked just like the emaciated women on her Tumblr dashboard. 
She pined to be mysterious, haunted, fascinating, like the other people her age that she saw in black and white photos with scars along their wrists, from taking razor blades to their skin.
She convinced herself that the melancholic quotes she was reading "Can I just disappear?" or "People who die by suicide don’t want to end their lives, they want to end their pain" applied to her.