Social media toxicity up to you to receive or not
With social media toxicity on a constant rise, many celebs have either quit it or called out such nasty behaviour on public platforms. For actor Sandhya Mridul, too, dealing with trolls has been quite a challenge and one of her recent experience particularly made her very upset.
“I had posted a throwback picture of mine when I was 21, and I got a very unsavoury comment on that, and it really made me very sad for a few days. I’ve blocked and reported that person. I took action and let it be,” she says.
Asserting that it’s very hard to maintain sanity these days amid such negativity, she adds,
“There was a time two months back when I was feeling extremely fragile with the amount of abuse I was getting online. So I took a backseat, I had to get selfish and realised I needed to look after myself and my mental health.”
Mridul feels if one isn’t able to handle online bullying, then switching off is the best option. “That toxicity is up to you to receive or not. You’ve to have the bandwidth to hold a battle, and if you’re going to collapse, it’s not worth it,” she says.
The Mentalhood actor admits that each time she restricted her social media exposure, it helped her deal with toxicity. “I don’t go online constantly and obsessively. It’s too much ugliness for you to take. I’m not going to talk to a troll. I don’t receive the abuse and that’s because I’ve strengthened myself to get used to that abuse and to be able to ignore it,” she concludes.