Digital Despair: How Social Media Fuels Teen Anxiety and Overmedication
More teens are experiencing anxiety and depression, taking medication, and struggling with the fallout of drugs—problems that can carry into adulthood.
Sofia never really felt like she fit in as a preteen, so she turned to a place where she could get lost and go numb.
She sat scrolling on her smartphone, hour after hour, day after day, searching for her identity. It was an easy distraction from the social isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine and the pain of her parents’ divorce.
