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Effect Of Social Media On Mental Health

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 It is an accepted fact that we are living in a world that is now controlled by technology. Most important and dangerous among them are smartphones. They are literally ruling us and we are becoming mobile slaves without even realizing. The biggest cause for that is use of social media. A research by Global Weblndex shows that globally 59% of the world's population uses social media. the average daily usage is 2 hours and 31 minutes. And this number is still increasing.  Although, soocial media and mobile phones have became our necessity, still we dont know how much it is effecting us negatively. A study conducted in 2019 confirmed this fact that social media is effecting our mental health alot. people who use social media are more likely to be depressed or mentally disturbed. Moreover, another study explained that more use of social media results in delayed sleeping which ultimately effect our mental health. Negative effects of social media: some of the most evident negative...

Improve Your Mental Health By Exercise

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Many people advice to do exercise to those who are struggling with mental health issues. Even psychologists also advise their patients to do so.  As it is said by Carol Welch that, Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional and mental states.  But how it is related to mental health. lets discuss it here: 1. Happy Harmones: We have many different types of harmones with different functions in our body. Out of them one is cortisol, which induces stress in us while others are endorphins which are called happy hormones. daily exercise reduce the level of cortisones while increase the level of endorphins. This is why we feel sudden happiness when we dance (of course it is also a type of exercise). 2. Improves Health: Researches have shown that exercise reduce the chance of having heart diseases by strengthening our immune system . The sudden rise in body temperature during exercise prevent bacteria from growing. Thus proves very helpful in keeping ...