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Dallinor said:
monocle_layton said:
Want to be mentally happy? Don't use social media.

99% of people will have significantly better lives after this

I understand you're imparting advice that could help people, and that might be good advice for some. However, a complex mix of a causal factors cannot be reduced to a single cause. That's undoubtably a serious over simplification of the issue.

We're talking about humans here. Levels, and multi-dimensional systems. There's quite a bit more to mental unhappiness than that.

Personally, I didn't find that method alone to significantly improve my life, and I doubt I'm in the 1%.

I'm not a therapist, and I'm only saying this from what I've seen from others.

 

Social media is a mess where socially insecure or mentally weak people can be hurt from the artifically created perfect lives. I believe however that facts are stronger than one's word, so let me see if I can find an article:

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4183915/

palou said:
I can only say that I THINK that I've got good mental health, but I know that I'm happy, as a whole, or for the very least, very content with life. Never suffered from depression. I think that our lives are something wonderful, always made me a bit sad that there are so many people online that aren't able to access all it has to offer.

That's why we simply have to keep helping any time we can. Seeing people put a smile when they're experiencing a bad day is one of my favorite things to see