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Using social media gives us a HUGE dopamine kick, but as we've discussed many times on this podcast, sometimes you can get dopamine kicks for all the wrong reasons.

Social media gives us a rush of dopamine but just like any other addiction, we need more of it to satisfy our dopamine needs and so it's easy to get stuck in the same repetitive cycle, hooked on our phones, repeatedly checking apps. The problem with social media is although it has many positive reasons for using it, there are also many negative things about it too!
When you find yourself  constantly checking notifications for updates, scrolling news feeds due to the fear of missing out or comparing yourself to others, it maybe time  to take a look at your social media usage and if it could be a contributing factor to a decline in your mental health and low self worth. 

This is a 2 part special on Social Media. In this first episode we look at the positive impacts of social media, as well as the impacts of how social media could be damaging your mental health. We give you some advice and tips on how to regulate your social usage so it's at a healthy level. Part 2 will be centred more around how to fight your social media addiction so you have the tools to put your phone down and beat your social media addiction once and for all.

The science bit:

Social media has been proven to be damaging to mental health
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3919760

Isolation Study:
  https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(17)30016-8/fulltext

Little Kicker: Challenge - Check your social media usage time by using an app on your phone (screen time, wellbeing etc) to see how much time you are actually spending on social media.

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