This is an advertisement from Better Help.

Naomi Klein calls them digital doubles.

You know, the version of yourself you put on social media,

in which your pictures are carefully chosen and filtered and wittily captioned to make your life look glossy and

aspirational.

We all know this happens and yet it's ever so easy to be hoodwinked into thinking

everyone else isn't doing exactly the same.

We see these perfect lives and perfect families and perfect holidays

and we can get caught up wishing our lives looked like someone else's.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

And it isn't a recent phenomenon.

Shakespeare wrote, wishing me like to one more rich in hope, featured like him, like him with

friends possessed, desiring this man's art and that man's scope

with what I most enjoy contented least, and its consequence in these thoughts myself almost despising. They might look like they have it

altogether on Instagram. They probably don't. You can't see the unwashed dishes behind

the photographer or hear the angry quarrel they just had with their partner.

You don't know the anxieties and tremors of their hearts.

Therapy can help you start to focus on what you have

rather than what others have.

So that you can realize that living your best life starts now.

With almost 5,000 therapists in the UK already,

better help can provide access to mental health professionals with a wide variety of expertise.

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