With increasing access to the Internet through PC-telecom penetration, cyber caf and other spots for a jump onto the cyberspace, the multiplicity in the online and the offline identity is becoming part of our personalities. Others totally disagree with this point of view and oppose it. Starting with the fascination for computers and the cyberspace the opponents claim this emerging phenomena as a new entity fast encapsulating our experiential channels and asking for re-focusing old theories. For them, the machines called computers and their networks, Internet being the most influential, have initiated a process by which individuals and cultures need to re-define the boundaries of their cognitive categories and concepts about mental health. They see cyberspace as a parallel of the invention of the movable type in the 15th century and even the invention of writing that once pushed to change the fundamentals of our social architecture.
Health is when different aspects of self can get to know each other and reflect upon each other.
Health is being one while being many. The communication revolution, in several contexts, has given rise to interfaces where textual actions, multiple identities and cathartic confessions will be done in Internet relay chats and on bulletin boards etc. with privacy and freedom.