Good afternoon, everyone.

It's Dr. Nigro again with our next episode of Psychology Unplugged.

As always, a humbling experience doing this on a weekly basis.

It's so cool that talking to people from all around the United States,

different parts of the globe, emailing, just phone calls. Again, very humbling,

and I really appreciate the opportunity to do this. So you guys have emailed different topics,

which is great. That is really important because I want to be able to speak to topics. As you know,

Julie always always asked me, like, what are you talking about this week? It's like, I don't know.

And something just pops in my head and figure, you know, let me take a retrospective look

at the past week of clinical work. And I i kind of go from there so today's topic is

social media and the deleterious impact that it has on the sense of self um i see it a lot in children and adolescents.

And Julie is reading this book right now,

which is called Successful Psychopharmacology.

So she was out the other day,

picking up a present from a store in Duxbury.

So I was flipping through the book, and I got to the chapter on eating disorders.

And as most of you guys know who've been following the podcast, I don't generally read stuff,

but I do when I think it's relevant.

So this was a study conducted by Yale with 4,000 participants. And they asked a very simple question, what would you give up in order

to not be obese? Here are the facts.

46% said they would actually die a year earlier in order to not to be obese.

15% said, chop off 10 years of my life as long as I do not have to be obese.

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