At a teen health conference in Switzerland the Spirit Happy Diet was a subject that caused a lot of attention. “Spirit Happy” was started in 2008 and exploded in popularity with its teen self harm and depression reports. According to unconfirmed published reports the site now has 20,000 regular users. What is also interesting though is that most of the current publicity that the site has received is from its Type 2 diabetes cure diet. Spirit Happy diet for diabetes was introduced in 2010 and spread to 14 countries in less than 6 months.
The true of the matter is that teens are some of the largest social users on the internet; they go a lot by word of mouth from their friends. What the Spirit Happy site did was to win the trust of teenagers who were seeking whole new information for Self harm and depression. The site offered a down to earth approach to self harm that was different from the standard cold information on many major mental health sites. The United Kingdom was the largest support of the Spirit Happy diet and health reports but that soon spread to other countries in Europe. Spirit happy was started in Denmark by Collin Camino; he was voted one of the best new film talents to watch for in 2005. Camino gives very few interviews but I did ask him about the critics of his website who wonder if the diabetes diet works.
“Spirit Happy was started at a very sad time for me in Denmark but God produced sometime beauty out of this depression”
As for the critics, he stated “We have been criticized from day one by Doctors, Therapists and other health officials who did not like the fact that the teens were coming to us. They leave us alone now. It is now the same thing with the Spirit Happy Diet criticism; anyone can write negative things on the internet about us but the more they say negative things the more people order our reports and get helped. We help more people when people write bad stuff and call us bad names. God always turns beauty out of ashes”
The site also gives out the Depression and self harm reports for free to teens and adults with no money. “Money never stopped anyone from getting our report if they are suicidal or depressed” Camino
It is clear that the teens that used the depression reports have also caused many to find the Spirit Happy Diet as well. After attending so many conferences all over the world I can say that Teenagers are really a powerful marketing tool when they trust you.
