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Social comparison online

The mental habit of measuring your own life against curated snippets of others' lives, a comparison that is structurally rigged because you're comparing your full reality to their highlight reel. The damage isn't in wanting more—it's in believing the gap is real and permanent rather than a trick of visibility.

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