SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION IN TEENS & YOUNG ADULTS

 

WHAT IS Social Media Addiction in Teens and Young Adults?

Social media addiction is behavioral disorder in which teens or young adults become enthralled by social media or social websites and are unable to reduce or stop their consumption of online media despite clear negative consequences and severe drawbacks.

What Does Teen Social Media Addiction Look Like?

• It's known that teens and adults alike check their phones almost about 150 times a day, and it's been well-documented that our excessive use of social media and our obsession with our online appearance has had a significant impact on teens, including severe self-esteem issues and feeling of anxiety.     
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  Social media not only promotes the decline in mental health for many teens, but it also becomes an easy outlet for online aggression and also cyber bullying further impacting a child emotionally damage.
• An addiction to social media may lead a child to struggle to engage with other children or people at a normal level, as well as affect their academic chances and the and the chances of their future goals.
• Addiction levels of social media use can also negatively impact existing relationship, leading many teens to struggle to maintain a commitment to their parents or friends due to constant distraction and lack of attention.                                                                        

What Causes Social Media Addiction?

• Addictiveness – As we all know, social media and online media is general addictive in certain sense of the world. The companies that run today most successful social networking apps and website work hard on improving and growing the amount of people they can bring into their platform, alongside maximizing the amount of time a person spends on their platform.
  
• Stress & self-esteem- social media can be a great tool for good, allowing people to stay in touch despite thousands of miles of distance, communicating at near instant speeds as their loved ones are living. Around many corners of the world.
• Social Anxiety- for people who struggle to maintain a relationship or communicate in a person, online media provides a perfect environment to communicate, and self-express herself or himself to his/her partner.

How Teen Social Media Addiction Is Treated?

Social media addiction treatment requires time spent away from social media and online media in general, as we all focus on helping teens deal with the repercussion of their addiction. Face the potential causes for their addictive behavior and identify methods that might help them better limit their social media use and continue a healthier relationship with online media.

• Talk Therapy – The psychotherapy session with professional may help teens dissociate from their behavior and realize the damage it has been doing to them and others.
• Family Therapy – sometimes, it helps to work not only with the team but with their family as their family will understand the problem the teen going through and also a good group therapy session can help the rest of family to better understand or identify methods to help them.
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  Other Treatment – there are many other treatments. As talk therapy is a powerful tool, psychiatrist and therapist use a larger repertoire to help teens deal with their social media addiction. There are some of the therapies like. Yoga meditation and more which can help a teen to deal with social media addiction.