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Emily has been using social media to connect with friends and family. She spends several hours a day scrolling through her feeds and chatting with her friends. However, she has noticed that her excessive use of social media has been affecting her mental health, leading her to feel more anxious and stressed. She is now trying to find a balance and limit her screen time to focus on her physical and mental well-being.harmful-effects, fixes-for-the-futurefacebookmental-health

There’s been real tension in my household lately, and social media has been my sort of coping mechanism. When I felt alone and hopeless, I could just scroll through instagram and not feel like crying anymore. I’ve never been allowed to go out much, so when I felt disconnected with my friends, I just spread my face across snapchat so I could talk to new people. I got addicted, always checking my phone, obsessed with keeping my streaks, worrying that someone needed my attention 24/7. I thought that was great to be needed, interested in, and meeting interesting people, until some of those people started asking things of me that I’m not comfortable with. Disconnected once again, I deleted snap and went back to my default scroll. Then I watched the social dilemma and really got to see that I wasn’t the only one having these types of problems. I started to limit my screen time, schedule my days according to online school, pick up other hobbies haven’t done in a while like drawing, being part of the church choir, ect. I still don’t have the best social life, but at least I’m spending my time alone productively.