Impact of Social Media on Mental Health

There are many impacts of social media on mental health, some are good and some are bad. Here we are going to discuss about its bad impacts on mental health.

Nowadays, people’s lives are spent on social media. Whether it is a school-going child or an employee working in an organization, everyone spends a lot of time on the Internet.The main purpose of social media is to entertain and inform us.

Social media plays an important role in our life, but today’s people have become addicted to social media, which is harmful to human health.

Unnecessary use of social media has bad effects on health, so using social media is only beneficial to a certain extent. Indeed social media is also bad for mental health because the misuse of social media badly impacts on our mental health. Excessive use of social media makes us mentally sick.

Extra use of social media makes people suffer from stress and anxiety all the time. Many people in this world are suffering from this problem and indeed this problem is unsolvable. If you want to get more information about it read this article.

Social Media Harmful Effects of Overuse

All the software, blogs and websites that connect people with each other mentally are called social media. In today’s era, the use of social media has become very much or we can say that it has become the most important part of everyone’s life. And excessive consumption of anything makes a person mentally ill. Moreover, the use of Social media has become the addiction of today’s people.

And this is a disease that affects people of all ages, whether they are children, teenagers or even old men, they are all mentally addicted to social media.

There are different types of social media, everyone uses it in their own way and when people spend too much time on it, mental illnesses arise.

Balancing the Benefits and Risks of Social Media on Mental Health

It can be clearly said that when social media started, it gave people a lot of benefits and is still giving it today. But its bad effects started when people started giving all their time to social media. Different types of social media such as Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter, etc.These are most beneficial but harmful on the other hand.

All these are the means through which we connect with people sitting miles away. Of course it is very well but we get away from our loved ones due to which many problems arise in our life.

Moreover, we get associated with many wrong people and fake relationships which destroy us mentally.And then when we are mentally tired, we become irritable in our nature and our life becomes gloomy.And all this is due to excessive use of social media.

Negative Impacts of Social Media on Mental Health

Social media has its benefits as well as its negative effects. You can imagine for yourself that when we use something to a certain extent, it benefits us. But when we make it our habit, it makes us mentally tired and has bad effects on our mental state. Some of the main impacts of social media are as follows.

Depression

Whenever we see any bad accident or hear any bad news on social media, we get worried and stay under the influence of this worry for a long time. And on the other hand, new relationships formed on social media also cause depression to a great extent.

Eyesight Weakness

Using mobile all the time and watching something or the other on social media all have bad effects on the eyes. Moreover, looking at the same place for hours weakens the eye muscles and then the radiation from the mobile weakens the vision. And then due to this the headache becomes severe which is harmful to health.

Loneliness 

Excessive use of social media leads to loneliness because when we use mobile phones all the time, we become distant from others. And that by connecting with new online friends, they lose their best friends and subsequently become lonely. Extra use of social media can destroy our healthy life also.

Lack of Sleep

Lack of sleep is one of the main negative effects of social media. Moreover, the mobile phone screen makes you think that it is not time to sleep yet. And then searching something or the other on social media keeps you awake for hours and hence the brain gets tired. Indeed, every part of our body is connected with each other. Whenever one of these parts is in pain, the whole body suffers.

Unrealistic Expectations

As many people know, social media puts unrealistic things in our minds about life and friendship. And that fosters relationships built on the Internet. Moreover people start many online businesses which are fake and many people get cheated by it.And similarly, the photos and stories posted on Facebook and Instagram are largely unrealistic.

Managing the Adverse Effects of Social Media on Mental Health

Just like everything has pros and cons, social media has good and bad effects. And it will not be wrong to say that we ourselves are the cause of the bad effects. We can control these bad effects if we want to.

Some guidelines for them are worth mentioning.

• Stop excessive use of Social Media
• Spend your leisure time with your family and friends.
• Teenagers and students should devote more time to studies.
• Make it a habit to sleep early at night and wake up early in the morning.
• Don’t use mobile phones unnecessarily and don’t look at things that aren’t meant for you.
• Whenever you search something on social media, look for something good and useful and ignore the bad stuff.
• Avoid scrolling on mobile phone for hours for no reason and spend more of your time on essential tasks.

Bottom Line

Of course social media is a good source to learn about anything but too much use of social media is bad for mental health. Take care of your health because it is a blessing given by Allah, do not waste it. Get serious with yourself and make life happy.

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