How To Engage In Social Media While Protecting Your Mental Health
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Julia Austin
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Take note of your emotions
“Monitor your feelings as you are viewing social media. It can be exhausting at times. Viewing disturbing content can cause anxiety and depression,” states Matthews. It could be an interesting experiment to rate your feelings of depression and anxiety before you engage in social media, and then re-rate those feelings after looking at social media. Because the increase in those negative feelings can happen gradually, we can fail to realize that we are in much worse shape after closing that app than we were before opening it. Rating your feelings, and being honest about them, can give you valuable and undeniable insight into what social media is doing to your mental health.
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