My topic is Social Media and it’s relationship to Mental Illness. I’ve been very interested in this topic and think it’s something extremely important to know about and share with others. One article that I found was titled “Facebook and Mental Health: Is Social Media Hurting Or Helping? The author Julia Cottle did a study on the relationship between the usage of social media and a person’s emotional state. She used charts and touched on many different types of illnesses such as depression and eating disorders, explaining the correlation between them and the internet. She ultimately came to the conclusion that using social media apps such as Facebook can be hurtful but also helpful, just depends on how someone is using it. These findings are important because even though social media can be used in positive way such as acting as a platform to raise awareness or to have your voice heard, it is also very dangerous and can make someone doubt themselves and question their worth. This article changed my research process in that it gave me more specific things to look into like I would’ve never thought to look at Facebook as a danger but there are so many ways it is misused and since nowadays everybody friends everybody, it can cause problems.
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