This week on the Anxious Truth, we're talking about social media use, mental health and anxiety recovery, and we have a special guest to help us with that, so let's get cooking.

Hey, what's up everybody? This is the Anxious Truth Podcast episode number 191-191 recorded in January of 2022.

If you are new to the podcast, I am Drillin Salata, I am creator and host of this fine show. The Anxious Truth is the podcast where we talk about all things anxiety and anxiety recovery.

So if you're struggling with things like panic attacks, panic disorder or agoraphobia, or any related conditions, this is the place for you and really happy you're here.

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Before we get on to our discussion, this week we're talking about social media, social media use, and how it impacts mental health and anxiety recovery, and I have a special guest to talk about it with that I know you guys are going to love.

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So that out of the way, let's get on to our discussion. We're going to talk about the use of social media and where kind of fits where there are pitfalls, which got to be careful with as it relates to mental health and anxiety recovery.

So, let's get on with it right now. All right, here we are. Welcome back, peeps. For those of you listening to the podcast on audio, you got a whole intro. If you're watching on YouTube, you just get in, you're getting the no frills version.

So, to my right is my good friend and wonderfully human being Kimberly Quinlan. How's it going, KQ? What up?

It's great. Thank you for having me. I'm honored to be here again. I know it's always so much fun to have you. You did or today we're going to talk about, oh, I have to say this for YouTube, because you didn't get the intro.

Today we're going to talk about social media and like social media in relation to anxiety and anxiety recovery. Now, Kimberly did one of the best 15 minute videos you're ever going to see on Instagram ever about this last week.

I was literally fist pumping while I was listening to her and I'm like, oh, we're going to do podcast on this. So, so here we are. Let's talk about some of the stuff that you went over in terms of relating like social media use to mental health and recovery.

You made some tremendous points.

Right. Well, the whole video was called the responsible use of social media. And so I had been thinking and reflecting a lot on social media and I'd been observing my thinking about it.

Social media is being bad for me or bad in general. And then I started to really think about that social media is neutral. Right.

How we consume social media is what kind of defines whether it's healthier unhealthy. And then we can go from once we once we declare that then we can start to explore how can I be responsible in my consumption of what is on the internet.

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