Chronic Illness and Social Media | Madeleine Boyson | TEDxWallaWallaUniversity

Madeleine shares how social media provided hope while struggling with a chronic illness.

Madeleine Boyson is an undergraduate studying history at Walla Walla University. After being diagnosed with Lyme in 2014, she studied art history for a semester at Oxford, eventually returning home for extensive antibiotic treatment and IV therapy. Madeleine has become intimately acquainted with the isolating effects of a disease that is both neglected medically and confining physically. Though she’s...

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Social Media Changed My Life | Amanda Hedrick | TEDxGeorgiaSouthernU

She's not talking about follower counts! Learn how social media provides a tool for art journaling where you can engage in an inclusive, international crowd of like-minded individuals. This community helped the speaker recover from loss, reinvent myself, discover a new hobby, and connect more meaningfully with the local community.

A lecturer and co-director of the Georgia Southern Writing Project, Amanda specializes in first year writing. She is also actively sharing the concepts and idea...

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