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11-15-2017, 08:31 AM
This alarming study just sparked a fierce debate about screen time and teen mental health
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Being a teen today means wrestling with how social media and screens shape the very essence of your identity. The anecdotal truth is that both can tear you down as quickly as they build you up; friends and followers can turn into enemies while the promise of human connection can give way to profound loneliness. *
SEE ALSO: How your brain responds to certain words might predict your suicide risk (http://mashable.com/2017/10/31/suicide-risk-words-neuroscience/)
Whether or not that dynamic is significant enough to take a toll on our emotional and mental wellbeing still isn't clear. In fact, researchers are engaged in an intense debate over what it would take to prove that outcome.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/14/is-social-media-screen-time-bad-for-teens-girls-mental-health/)
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Being a teen today means wrestling with how social media and screens shape the very essence of your identity. The anecdotal truth is that both can tear you down as quickly as they build you up; friends and followers can turn into enemies while the promise of human connection can give way to profound loneliness. *
SEE ALSO: How your brain responds to certain words might predict your suicide risk (http://mashable.com/2017/10/31/suicide-risk-words-neuroscience/)
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