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Regularly posting on social media may worsen mental health in adults
www.ucl.ac.ukAdults who frequently post on social media are at more risk of developing mental health problems than those who passively view social media content, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.
Or people who have mental health issues are more likely to frequently post on social media? The implied causation is garbage.
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Yeah, I was less faulting the study and more faulting the headline
Came here to say this. Glad I was beaten to it.
Ditto. Was even teeing up the “causality” word but they used it too. Nice to see.
this.
Isolated people are more likely to engage online because they have little to no conversations IRL. or people who have mental health issues and mask constantly will be themselves online.
Or people who post a lot have anxiety issues? A need for outside validation that can never be fully met. I wouldn’t say they have a mental health issue.
Out of curiosity, how are “anxiety issues” not a mental health issue? Depression, anxiety, etc. are all mental health issues and there’s absolutely no stigma that should be attached to that.
Clinical mental illness has specific definitions. Feeling anxious sometimes doesn’t meet them. Everyone feels anxious sometimes. No one was “attaching a stigma” to anything here.
The article and my comments have all been focused on “mental health problems”. No one mentioned “mental illness” but you. Those are different things and if you can’t understand that, not sure there’s anything else to be gained in additional discussion.
You brought it up by jumping to conclusions but your ego can’t admit it so take care.
Youre probably onto something. It makes me thing of that stalkedbythefeds women
Indeed. Junk science like this has consequences
maybe the consequences are the one that cause junk science?
or people who overthink everything are more likely to engage in conversations online AND have mental health issues
Do you speak from experience?