What's the relationship between your Mental Health and your Social Media?
Hey, Swell. Hi, everyone. It's clos here. I'm the founder of District Grow and I'm a certified digital wellbeing coach. So I'd like to ask you how you see the relationship between your mental health and your social media. I know there are some very, very common topics. For instance, unhealthy comparisons in terms of lifestyle, in terms of finances. FOMO is also very common and also simply seeing things that you can't afford on social media
Adriane
@Royalcapability · 2:57
And a lot of times when you get on Facebook or social media, you start at 10:00 and it's like it'd be 12:00 be noon and you're literally still on there and time has just gone by so rapidly. Thanks so much for sharing
But it's put me in an odd place where sometimes I kind of resent the current generation that we're in where the identity is all over the place. So my relationship with it is kind of making me look at reality in a different way. I'm a person that reads a lot. So the balance between what is social media and what is the condition of my mental health is I think it's an exercise. If anything, I think it really teaches you a lot about resilience
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Those are just a few of the impacts that come off the top of my head, I think there are a lot more and it's taking a lot of time to step back and reflect and process it all. But so far, changing my relationship with social media has definitely increased my mental health and well being
Hello. Thanks for sharing. I relate a lot to this, especially what you said at the end, because some of the social media that I use, like LinkedIn or Twitter, it's mostly for work and to have a presence and to talk about my work. But I also have different platforms that I use mostly personally, like Instagram. I have Locked account, and I don't use it to try to advertise my work that much
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:13
And it's been such a joy the past few months to realize that these conversations conversations are almost like going into a group setting where you're kind of checking in and holding each other accountable in this space where it's very meta. But it really is about being in a space like this and using it for really beautiful reasons. So I just wanted to reiterate what you said and just double down on it. It so resonates with me. Thank you
Erica Jean
@HeyItsErica · 2:02
However, the thing about social media is it really does suck you in and it make you feel as if you're missing out on something or if you lack something. And even though a lot of us don't say this out loud, inside we feel like the more we scroll, the more we see all these people saying that they live a good, cushy life. I don't know. And then on the flip side of that, it's doom and gloom with social media
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 4:55
And you are comparing yourself and you are feeding yourself poison and are now having unhealthy thoughts of, oh, well, I need to be doing this and I should be doing this, and I should be there. Girl, stop. Get off of social media and do something that brings you peace, harmony, love and joy today, which is the things that I'm doing now on my couch, responding to swells, chilling, and I'm about to watch some Queen Charlotte
Wow. Thank you for sharing. I completely relate especially to the having more time in the day part. I remember back in 2016, I deleted my Facebook account because I didn't feel that it was bringing me anything positive. And so much of it was just spam, really, like completely useless s post. So I just removed it
And you can, for instance, take one person who spends 2 hours per day between say, Instagram and YouTube and if they spend those 2 hours looking at videos, that makes them anxious and post of people that they envy the lifestyle of or something like that. Versus they spend those 2 hours looking at videos to learn something new and looking at posts from their family and something that makes them feel connected to other people that they love. It's going to be a very different experience
