Sarah Hays Coomer is a Mayo Clinic and National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach ... may be in touch with follow-up questions. Social media is ubiquitous, and escaping the cycle of ...

For summaries of how I explained each portion of the graph--including ... media generally, or social media and smartphones specifically, is associated with negative mental health symptoms.

Whether or not social media affects mental health, and to what degree, has long been up for debate. While some contend that social media connects the world, others argue that it feeds a culture of ...

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek’ declares that Generation Z’s “mental health crisis” is “in part caused (by) their constant exposure to social media,” another reads amid a daily frenzy of ...

"We are living in the middle of a youth mental health crisis, and I have said publicly that this is the defining public health challenge of our time. I firmly believe that. And social media has ...

Social media is terrible for teens’ mental health—or is it? At the same time that rising rates of poor mental health among youth have been called a national crisis, and as parents and ...

Amid this ongoing mental health crisis ... has impacted the mental health of teenagers. In her reporting, she found that the seismic shift of smartphones and social media has re-defined how ...

Social media’s effects on the mental health of young people are not well understood. That hasn’t stopped Congress, state legislatures, and the U.S. surgeon general from moving ahead with age ...

In recent years, Gen Z (those born between 1997 and 2012) has increasingly pointed to social media as a significant factor ...

The average person spends more than two hours daily scrolling through social media feeds. When redirected toward personal development, this time becomes invaluable for mental health. Instead of ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand teens’ experiences and attitudes around teen mental health and social media. Part of this study also examines parents’ perspectives. The Center ...

We hear a lot about how social media is terrible for teenagers’ mental health. A growing number of laws and lawsuits point the finger at social media companies as playing a major role in driving ...