If you need to break a social media addiction, or spend less time checking your phone, it's important to set limits and hold ...

Most teenagers have 24/7 access to a popular drug. They are high off it for hours a day and carry it in their pockets everywhere they go. The drug? Social media. From making calls to getting ...

To say kids are at the coalface of risks we don’t really understand is a massive understatement,” says Nara* a mother from ...

LifeStance Health reports that social media can reduce loneliness, enhance connections, and support mental health through mindful use and self-expression.

Spending too much time online can make people feel isolated in real life. Less face-to-face interaction can weaken ...

Earlier this year, researchers at UNC’s Winston Center for Technology and Developing Minds established a new initiative to investigate how technology is “rewiring” the brains of developing youth ...

Educator and nonprofit leader Mikki Smith explores social media’s effect on health. Host Ashira Nelson is joined by Ms. Mikki Smith, a local educator and nonprofit leader, for a conversation about ...

“Hi, my name is John, and I am an alcoholic.” This stereotypical start to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting is so commonplace in media and pop culture that it has become a cliché catch phrase for ...

Much has been said about rises in mental health problems reported by younger people over the past 20 years. It is estimated that the prevalence of anxiety for 18-to-25-year-olds was about 8% in 2008, ...

Social media has become an inseparable part of our daily life, especially for Generation Z – young people born between the mid-1990s and early 2010s. While platforms like TikTok, Instagram, X ...

The conversation at my family dinner table this week was heavier than usual. After discussing Charlie Kirk’s tragic assassination, I asked my three sons a question I dreaded hearing the answer to: Did ...