🌿 Social Media Anxiety: When Being Connected Creates Distress 🌿
💡 What should bring us closer sometimes fills us with comparison, pressure, and anxiety. Social media has become a part of daily life for millions of people. It offers connection, information, entertainment, and even professional opportunities. However, it can also become a significant source of anxiety, especially when it turns into a space of constant comparison, search for approval, and ongoing exposure. Social media anxiety is not always noticeable at first, but little by little it can affect mood, self-esteem, and emotional stability. 🔹 The cycle of constant comparison On social media, we see carefully edited versions of other people’s lives: 👉 Perfect vacations. 👉 Professional achievements. 👉 Ideal romantic relationships. 👉 “Perfect” bodies and retouched images. This often leads people to compare their everyday reality with these idealized images, generating feelings of: ✨ Insufficiency ("my life isn’t as good as theirs"). ✨ Frustration ("why ...