Effect of Social Media on Mental Health

This report discusses the impact of social media on mental health. It explores the positive and negative effects, as well as prevention strategies. The report also emphasizes the importance of maintaining a healthy balance in social media usage.

EFFECT OF SOCIAL
MEDIA ON MENTAL
HEALTH

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
Overview of mental health and social media.........................................................................1
Positive impact of social media in mental health...................................................................2
Negative impact of social media in mental health..................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4
Books and Journals.................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Mental health is defined as the behavioural, emotional and cognitive approach of
individual for their well being. This refers as how people think, feel and behave people
sometimes use the term the health regarding with mental. As per this, it indicate the absence of
mental disorder. The origin of mental disorder is started with various dimension. The primary
source of this disorder is over thinking, stress and many more which is persist for longer period
of time and cause the mental instability. In mental disorder some of the common disease which is
associated with this is called depression, anxiety and so on. These all disorder which is
associated with mental issue. In this report, the analysis is based on various factor which create
effect on mental health by using social media. The various effect and their prevention strategies
are discussed (Berryman and et. al., 2018).
MAIN BODY
Overview of mental health and social media
As per this, the human being is an social creature which required a social behavioural in
order to know the ethics and rule of life. The requirement of partner is necessary throughout the
life in order to provide the strength which create huge impact in the mental health of an
individual. There are various people who show their interest to make friend and use to create
mental health and happiness in life. As per recent time, there are various social media platform
such as twitter, Facebook and Instagram which help people connect with each other. This make
difference between the reel and reality of life and create replacement in way to know the fact
about connection. For every person at this busy world, require a friend or someone to whom
person contact and share their thought and view. As per this social media became a platform in
order to share view and thought. In addition to this, the technology made number of this easy but
also create an impact which is more lonely and isolated and as per this the mental health problem
include anxiety and depression. If any individual spending maximum time on social media this
create negative impact on the mental state (Marengo and et. al., 2018). This excessive use create
feeling of sadness, dissatisfaction, frustration or loneliness which impacting the life and issue
related to these. This is an time of which examine a proper habit and create the balance which is
healthier in nature.
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Positive impact of social media in mental health
The virtual interaction can create shortly due the social media. It became more useful
platform for every one otherwise it will create the psychological benefits in order to create face
to face interaction and this will became real. There are still many of positive ways which is help
to stay connected and support the well being of individual (Ngo and et. al., 2020).
Social media make individual access through various parameter which is defined as to
make free about to do these are mentioned below:
 Communicate and stay up to date with family and member around the world.
 Find new friend and communities in order to know the fact and figure which create
network in other people who share their similar interest which is based on ambitions and
achieve the goal and objectives of life.
 Promotion of health related factor which is associated with mental issue. In this people
support and create the awareness which is an important issue.
 Seek or offer support during their tough times (Cosgrove and et. al., 2018).
 Play a vital role social media connection which is living in remote area for example it
have independence, social anxiety and part of group or team.
 Create outlet and develop the scenario of creativity and self expression.
 Discover with proper care which is reliable for the valuable information such as learning
and create outcomes.
As per this, social media develop new though process. In this, they are usually used to
develop various acknowledge process. They provide specific thought and knowledge which is
running now day, they develop dual core and dual face of thinking.
Negative impact of social media in mental health
As per the new technology which is establish the long term consequences in order to
good or bad which affected from social media. Social media promote negativity such as:
 Inadequacy about life and appearance. In addition the social media is platform where
manipulation is always going on. This create thinking which is based on looks and aspect
of life which create demotivation and threat for thinking.
 Fear of missing out (FOMO) is defined as any individual is far way from social media
such as Instagram and Facebook which accelerate the feeling which is longer and other
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are having fun or living lives than this. The idea which is helps in certain thing which
create negative impact such as self esteem, trigger anxiety and so on.
 Isolation is important because is excessive use of these kind of social media eradicate the
ethics and generate violence adoption through social platform. So, to improve the overall
well-being isolate from social media platform.
 Depression and anxiety which create this kind of suffer because the social platform make
individual alone and isolate from their ethical thinking.
 Cyberbullying is also an criminal act which is associated through this social media
platform.
As per this, it has been founded that social media create various of unethical activity
which misconduct the laws and rule (Depoux and et. al., 2020).
CONCLUSION
As per the above discussion, this is well analyse that the social media has develop various
of impact in normal state of mind and this can create the issue which is related with mental
disorder. There are various effect which is mentioned below as a negative and some of the
positive aspect which determined by proper analysis.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Berryman and et. al., 2018. Social media use and mental health among young adults. Psychiatric
quarterly, 89(2), pp.307-314.
Marengo and et. al., 2018. Highly-visual social media and internalizing symptoms in
adolescence: The mediating role of body image concerns. Computers in Human
Behavior, 82, pp.63-69.
Cosgrove and et. al., 2018. The poison in the cure: Neoliberalism and contemporary movements
in mental health. Theory & Psychology, 28(5), pp.669-683.
Depoux and et. al., 2020. The pandemic of social media panic travels faster than the COVID-19
outbreak.
Ngo and et. al., 2020. COVID-19: Using Social Media to Promote Mental Health in Medical
School During the Pandemic. International Journal of Medical Students, 8(3), pp.305-
306.
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