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How social media creates impossible standards for teenagers

Every influencer I follow is my age but they all have perfect skin and perfect lives and I look in the mirror and feel like I'm failing at being seventeen.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Constant comparison to curated perfection distorts understanding of what normal life actually looks like.

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“Where Are You with Social media and adolescent mental health?”

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