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I think it's safe to say that many of us are addicted to our social media accounts.

Yeah, I think you are for sure. I've watched you dive down a TikTok rabbit hole.

Excuse me. That's like the podcast call in the kettle black.

You did this to me. I did not ever used to do this until you started showing me kitten videos and now I can't stop.

That's true. Many studies show it can have a negative effect on your health, your mental health.

So if you're wondering if it's time to take a break from Twitter, TikTok like Wally, Facebook or Instagram.

Here's a few signs to look out for if you start exhibiting these symptoms.

I'm fascinating. Take a break. Okay, the first one is you compulsively check your phone for new notifications, messages or likes.

Okay, now I do compulsively check my phones, but I don't live in a social media world.

Like I'm not checking like Facebook all the time, but I could see if I was, I would definitely be like, well, what's going on?

The second, if you wake up worried about something you posted the night before.

So there are people that post things and then they're like a second thought and then they delete it because they didn't get the amount of likes.

They thought it would or things like that.

Third, your real life interactions are suffering. You're not going through those, you know, one on one conversations instead you're glued to your phone.

And then if you've started viewing yourself negatively, that could be like, you know, everyone posts about their highlight really never post about their bad day.

So you're comparing your bad days to all of their good days and that can cause anxiety, depression.

I mean, we hear all of our kids today. I've got anxiety, got this, I got this, I got this.

And I think that a lot of it does stem from social media before we just kind of compared ourselves to a few people around us.

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