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Tiny Leaps, Big Changes

467 - Social Media & Mental Health

Tiny Leaps, Big Changes

Gregg Clunis

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.3920 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I talk about the effects of social media on mental health. Social media is a powerful tool to connect people but also can cause some negative effects. I also share four ways you can mitigate those effects.

Key Points:

· Why checking social media triggers the pleasure sensors in our brains

· What can happen when we don’t get the "likes"

· How social media impacts our opinions of ourselves

· 4 steps to mitigate the effects of social media

Important Links:

https://www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/blog/centre-mental-health-blog/anxiety-loneliness-fear-missing-out-social-media

https://www.psycom.net/social-media-teen-mental-health

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-11-stress-minimizing-negative-effects-social.html

Transcript

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0:00.0

In this episode we look at the effects of social media on our mental health.

0:06.0

Get excited because this is tiny leaves.

0:11.0

Big leaves.

0:13.0

Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leeks.

0:15.0

Big changes where there's simple strategies you can use to get more out of

0:27.0

your life. My name is Greg Clunice and in this episode we are looking at the effects of social media on our mental health.

0:35.8

We're going to be doing this a little bit old school, a little bit how the show sort of originally

0:41.2

was where we're looking at a few different articles, a few

0:44.0

different resources on sort of what they've found to be true about this and then

0:49.6

I'm going to be sort of providing my interpretation of the section from that article or my opinion on how we can sort of mitigate this.

1:01.6

So this should be a pretty interesting one because this is a topic

1:04.9

that I know a lot of you are curious about, you're struggling with yourself, you're wondering

1:10.2

about, and I think that if more people understood this, myself included, that we could all sort of get the benefits of social media because there are a lot without all the drawbacks.

1:25.9

So this should be a really good one for that.

1:28.7

Now before we jump into the episode, be sure to take the survey if you haven't already head over to

1:33.6

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1:39.6

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1:44.7

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1:56.6

So what are the effects of social media on our mental health?

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