LifeStance Health reports that social media can reduce loneliness, enhance connections, and support mental health through ...

Here’s what percentage of teens actually use social media, how often they’re doing so and why the platforms can be uniquely harmful to them.

The researcher and author Jean Twenge has a prescription for the harmful effects of screen time on children. If only parents would listen.

As digital platforms blur public and private boundaries, mounting evidence reveals how unfiltered exposure to distressing online content fuels a silent mental health crisis, especially among youth, ...

I recently read a very interesting book, "Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Mental Illness" by Dr. Lucy Foulkes. The book focuses on some of the misunderstandings about the prevalence of mental ...

Mental health struggles among teenagers are becoming a growing concern, with sharp increases in anxiety, depression, and ...

In recent years, people have become more comfortable sharing their personal experiences about mental health, a sign that stigma around it is diminishing. On Instagram and TikTok combined, there are ...

Public health experts, lawmakers and parents have cautioned about the effects of social media on America’s teens. But what do teens themselves think? In 2024, Pew Research Center surveyed U.S. teens ...

Nearly half of young adults (45 percent) value the medical advice of friends and family over that of actual doctors—and 38 percent trust social media over a real physician. This is the finding of a ...

School’s out. Teens are bored. And the siren call of social media and video games beckons. Parents and caregivers bungling through new summer routines, or lack thereof, have long sought to balance the ...

I remember when I was in graduate school for psychology, and every time I heard of a new diagnosis, I would look at the symptoms and declare that I was diagnosable. These days, they say the scariest ...

This week, a bombshell article was released related to Selena Gomez and her mother, Amanda Teefy’s mental health start-up company, which has reportedly gone downhill. The famous mother-daughter duo ...