The Effect of Social Media on Mental Health Issues

The Effect of Social Media on
Mental Health Issues

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Mental Health and Mental Health Issues.....................................................................................3
Effect of social media and its use on mental health issues..........................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Social media is a computer technology where people can share their thoughts, ideas and
information by building virtual network and communities. Social media and different social
media applications have taken over the world because of their ability to connect population.
Social media facilitates communication and connecting with people one knows and also those
people do not know but social media have significant on mental health of individuals. This
presentation script aims at discussing effects of social media on mental health.
MAIN BODY
Mental Health and Mental Health Issues
Mental health can be defined as a state of mental well-being in which individuals become
able to understand their abilities and are capable to manage normal stress of regular life and can
work productively and make their proportionate contribution to society. Mental health of
individual has significant impact on how they think feel and act (Hunt and et.al., 2018). Mental
health issues or mental illness refers to several conditions that negatively affect mood thoughts
and behaviour of individual. Some of the mental health issues include anxiety disorders
behavioural and emotional disorders depression. Use of social media can contribute in
developing this mental health issues and those who were struggling with such issues use of social
media can increase their effect on individual.
Effect of social media and its use on mental health issues
Social media have become very popular and it has estimated 3.6 billion users around the
world and this number of users is likely to increase by 4.5 billion by 2025. It has made
significant impact on how people used to communicate with others and research on applications
of use of social media arebeing undertaken by scientist (Sarah Fielding, 2020). Several studies
and evidences indicates that social media is likely to contribute in development symptoms of
depression that too specifically in young age population. However social media doesn’t directly
cause depression and its symptoms but it can contributes and facilitate habits that do cause
depression. Habit includes staying up too late and getting distracted along with ignorance of
responsibilities.