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How The Media Causes Depression And Anxiety
Screen time is making you sick
It’s simple. Looking at screens is making us anxious and depressed.
There’s absolutely no doubt about it. There’s plenty of evidence to back it up. And more importantly — you know it in your bones.’
Perhaps you happened to be away from screens for a week on vacation. Maybe you lost your phone charger while travelling and had no screens to look at for 3 days. Or perhaps you actually planned a “screen free” day.
And something miraculous happened: Things started to feel better. The brain fog that you didn’t even realise was there started to lift. You started to feel clear-headed and focused. And the future began to sparkle with hope and excitement.
Perhaps you even made a silent promise to yourself: To look at screens less often from now on.
Of course, this promise was swiftly broken. And that invisible brain fog began to quietly descend onto your life once again.
Our society is filled with screens. And does a fish know when it’s wet? Screens are so pervasive that you may have never even considered that they might be making you anxious and depressed.
To what extent they’re having an affect varies from person to person. Some will be affected by…
