Experts Explain Why Instagram’s Effects On Mental Health Aren’t All Bad
Experts Explain Why Instagram’s Effects On Mental Health Aren’t All Bad Ten years after Instagram first launched, allowing users to engage in each others’ lives through pictures, the platform boasts around a billion active users — and a reputation for cratering a generation’s self-esteem. At first, studies seemed to suggest that scrolling through curated images of impossibly fit wellness influencers and highlights from your college nemesis’ engagement actively harms your mental health. Instagram, along with other social platforms, is linked to higher rates of depression and anxiety, as well as loneliness, bullying, body image issues, and sleep quality. But experts say this doesn’t illustrate Instagram’s full impact on mental health. Instagram names for boys instagram names for girls sexy captions “There is a common saying in this line of research now,” Adrian Meier, PhD, an assistant professor of communications at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, tells Bustle, citing ps