Apps You Depend On
You know those moments when you’re hanging out with friends or family and all of a sudden you look around and everyone is on their phones, not talking or looking at each other? It...
Category: Social Media Guide
What Is “Self-Esteem,” Anyway?
Studies have found that teens today have the same level of anxiety as psychiatric patients did in the 1950s, and the difficulties of managing this anxiety can diminish healthy self-esteem, leading in turn to...
New Years Resolutions
It may seem like the everyone around you is having a great time declaring their New Year’s Resolutions all over the internet. No matter where you look someone is posting about making it to...
How Facebook Tries to Prevent Suicide
Healthcare professionals and government officials have been confronting suicide for years by implementing various self-harm and suicide prevention programs. Now, social-media companies like Facebook are taking part in the fight against suicide—by using artificial intelligence (AI). Companies that run social...
How Teens Cope With Digital Stress
Teens live with their phones in their pockets, and this has created tons of entertainment for you—but it has also created stress. Teens deal with cyber-bullying, digital self-harm, fake accounts, and many other problems that can...
Breathe2Relax – Stress Management
Do your stress levels increase as the holidays arrive? Mine certainly do. Although I personally love all things Christmas and holidays and family, I definitely experience a spike in stress as December harbors finals...
Digital Self Harm
Trigger Warning: Self Harm Earlier this week we wrote about traditional forms of self-injury behaviors that occur such as burning and cutting. These traditional behaviors usually leave a visible mark on a person’s body. However,...
A Polished Image
This TED talk can make us all think about how what we see on social media, in the news, in magazines, and online can be “entirely manufactured.” Cameron Russell, in her talk, points out that...
Advocacy through Social Media
Social media is a tool that has great potential. Social media has the potential to connect people from all over the world to create communities of like-minded people. One of the most positive ways...
Why Instagram is Changing Reality’s Perception
Have you ever experienced that thing where your thoughts gnaw at you over and over again? My Mom calls it ruminating. I do it a lot, so I’m sure you’ll see me talk about it...
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