The Internet Has Made Health Anxiety Worse Than Ever - TIME

Worse, there is evidence that the so-called “worried well”, with their health anxiety and their cyberchondria, can be up to 70% more likely to develop cardiac problems. All this worrying can ... Read More

A Teen’s Journey Into the Internet’s Darkness and Back Again

“I feel like if I was born in 2000 B.C. in the Alps, I’d still be depressive, but I think it’s wildly exacerbated by the climate we live in,” said C, who is 22 and lives in Salt Lake City. Read More

How Twitter Fuels Anxiety - The Atlantic

The like-minded community I’ve built on Twitter has made confessing anxiety easier than ever, but the comparison Twitter enables has made the experience of anxiety worse. Read More

Dr. Phil: Get teens off TikTok, social media to improve mental health

They're dying more frequently and feeling more depressed, anxious, lonely and hopeless than ever before. Although prolonged isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic definitely made the problem worse ... Read More

Oxford study says internet use doesn’t harm mental health, but its research has limits - TechCrunch

In one of the largest studies ever on mental health and internet use, the Oxford Internet Institute has declared that there is no “smoking gun” linking the internet with psychological harm ... Read More

Why millennials are seeing worse mental health and what it means for the future

Millennials are seeing worse mental health than the generation before them, according to Blue Cross Blue Shield. The group, now 29-44 years old, is the largest generation in the nation and make up the ... Read More

Facebook's Safety Check is now a permanent, anxiety-inducing fixture in our lives | WIRED

Facebook’s Safety Check has been deployed during and in the aftermath of terrorist attacks and natural disasters, letting people mark themselves as safe and check whether loved ones are okay ... Read More

More Americans suffering from stress, anxiety and depression, study finds - CBS News

More Americans than ever before are stressed, depressed and anxiety-ridden, and many are unable to get the help they need, a new study suggests. An estimated 8.3 million American adults — about ... Read More