Well, Now: How Social Media Hurts Youth Mental Health

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🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Youth mental health has hit a crisis point. Just last year, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released an advisory connecting young people’s use of social media with adverse mental health outcomes. But Murthy and other public health leaders are fighting back, including New York City Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan. He’s leading the charge against social media platforms like Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube through litigation and legislation. On this week’s episode of Well, Now – holding social media companies accountable for the youth mental health crisis. If you liked this episode, check out: Is it Burnout? Or, Do You Have a Busy Brain? Well, Now is hosted by Kavita Patel, MD and Maya Feller, RD. Podcast production by Vic Whitley-Berry with editorial oversight by Alicia Montgomery. Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.9	You're listening to Well Now, Slate's podcast on health and wellness. I'm Maya Feller. And I'm Kavita Patel.
1:13.2	May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and mental health is not one disease. It is a spectrum of
1:18.0	experiences, disorders, and other conditions. To be clear, there's a significant difference between
1:23.7	everyday stress and other conditions that benefit from professional intervention. But there is
1:29.2	still an incredible amount of stigma. Mental illness is not a character flaw or a sign of weakness.
1:34.9	It is a medical condition. But all too often, it is not treated the way I would treat diabetes
1:40.7	or high blood pressure, for example. But there are so many ways in which it manifests.
1:46.0	Maya, how has a mental health disorder or just mental health itself manifested in your practice?
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