Social media
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Sweden urges parents to restrict phone use around children
Sweden’s public health agency has urged parents to declare parts of the…
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‘It was too easy’: families ask how Kenneth Law enabled so many suicides
Monday would have been Aimee Walton’s 25th birthday. But in 2022, the…
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Americas, Canada, Crown Prosecution Service, Health, Internet safety, Law, Mental health, Social media, Society, Technology, UK news, World newsAnger at decision not to extradite Canadian suicide kit supplier to face UK justice
Bereaved families whose loved ones were the victims of an online supplier…
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child and adolescent, Editor Dafni Katsampa, Mental health, mental health campaigns, mental health knowledge, mental health literacy, mental-health-awareness, narrative review, Nature Reviews Psychology, nocebo, overdiagnosis, overpathologising, Population health, school-based interventions, scoping review, self-diagnosis, Social media, social media campaign, stigma, topical, Young people, youth mental healthMental health awareness: what we have gained, and what we did not expect
Mental health awareness has increased dramatically (Hahn et al., 2023; Henderson, Potts and…
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Anxiety, depression, Digital media, Health, Health & wellbeing, Life and style, meditation, Mental health, Mindfulness, Music, Psychology, Science, Social media, SocietySound baths are supposed to help relax and ‘soothe’ your nervous system. But do any of these claims ring true? | Antiviral
I, for one, am partial to a bath: what’s not to love…
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Australia news, Australian politics, Ged Kearney, Gender, men, Men’s health, Mental health, One Nation, Pauline Hanson, Social media, Suicide ratesMPs v the manosphere: ministers up against misogyny as they take a different message to men and boys across Australia
“Gender equality isn’t women versus men or a zero-sum game,” Ged Kearney…
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Anxiety, depression, indirect trauma, media exposure, media literacy, Psychiatry, psychological effects, Psychology, PTSD, Social media, Stress, therapy, uncensored media, vicarious traumatization, war traumaUncensored Media Trauma and Modern Psychological Effects
The internet era has dramatically changed how people are exposed to traumatic…
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Scrolling and worrying: the hidden dangers of DIY diagnosis
Ben* sat across from me, explaining how his low motivation, lethargy and…
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ADHD, anorexia nervosa, Anxiety, Autism, autistic spectrum disorder, bipolar, depression, digital health, digital mental health, Editor Nina Higson-Sweeney, Facebook, Instagram, Journal of Social Media Research, misinformation, neurodivergent, obsessive compulsive disorder, Social media, systematic review, TikTok, twitter, YouTubeScrolling for answers: how reliable is mental health and neurodivergence-related information on social media?
Imagine the following scenario. You’re lying in bed, phone in hand, scrolling…
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AI (artificial intelligence), Children’s health, Health, Mental health, Meta, Social media, Technology, Tobacco industry, US news, YouTube‘I always considered social media evil’: big tobacco whistleblower on tech’s addictive products
A key whistleblower in the tobacco industry’s landmark trials of the 1990s…
