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Around 95% of young people between the ages of 13–17 use at least one social media platform, [2] making it a major influence on young adolescents. While some authors claim that social media is to blame for the increase in anxiety and depression, most review papers report that the association between the two is weak or inconsistent. [3]
The influencers defend themselves by arguing that using social media this way is an effective strategy. "I can raise more money, so I can help more people if I post it online," says Mr Weidenhofer.
The second leading cause of global disability burden in 2020 was unipolar depression, and research showed that depression was twice as likely to be prevalent in women than in men. [9] [10] [13] Gender-based mental health disparities suggest that gender is a factor that could be leading to unequal health outcomes. [14]
[3] [4] According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide was the third leading cause of death among adolescents in the US, from 1999 to 2006. [5] In 2020, people in the US had a suicide rate of 13.5 per 100,000. [6] Suicide was a leading cause of death in the United States accounting for 48,183 deaths in 2021. [7]
A Gallup poll indicates that roughly 17.8% of U.S. adults are currently struggling with or being treated for depression, up seven percentage points since 2015. However, Gallup’s data indicates ...
“To the U.S. government, I’m never forgiving you for this,” she said. “And I’m never going to trust you ever again because you, just like that, took away millions of people’s incomes ...
"Fear of missing out" can lead to psychological stress at the idea of missing posted content by others while offline. The relationships between digital media use and mental health have been investigated by various researchers—predominantly psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and medical experts—especially since the mid-1990s, after the growth of the World Wide Web and rise of ...
Population studies have consistently shown major depression to be about twice as common in women as in men, although it is not yet clear why this is so. [7] The relative increase in occurrence is related to pubertal development rather than chronological age, reaches adult ratios between the ages of 15 and 18, and appears associated with psychosocial more than hormonal factors.