This article explores the connection between social media use and mental health, highlighting how it affects emotions, self-image, sleep, and overall well-being.

Yet social media can also disrupt sleep, convey unrealistic views of others’ lives, appearance or situations, and lead to mental health concerns. The issues are worse for teens.

Parents are more worried than teens about teen mental health. Both groups – especially parents – partly blame social media. But teens also see benefits.

One in five U.S. teens say social media has negatively impacted their mental health and nearly half say it has a mostly negative impact on kids their age. A Pew Research Center report published ...

Social Media Apps Blamed by Many Teens for Mental Health Struggles New Pew data shows nearly half of the 1,400 teens surveyed believe social media is harmful to their generation.

One of the first studies in this area to use clinical-level diagnoses reveals a range of differences between young people with and without mental health conditions when it comes to social media ...

The impact of social media on young people’s mental health and well-being is a growing topic of concern among parents, educators, health care professionals and regulators. And now, nearly half ...

A study led by the University of Cambridge, found that social media affects teens with mental health conditions differently in three distinct ways.

Researchers found that adolescents with any mental health condition report spending more time on social media than those without a mental health condition, amounting to an average of roughly 50 ...

A Maryland psychologist shared his thoughts on teen social media use after a new study out of the University of Cambridge suggested that adolescents with mental health conditions experience social ...

Why, then, was social media associated with delusionality? Social delusions Like other mental traits, delusions exist in one's brain for a reason.