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When social media makes teenage emotions dangerously volatile

My daughter's mood completely changes based on her social media interactions and I watch her go from happy to devastated in the span of checking her phone once.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

External digital feedback becomes so central to emotional regulation that natural internal stability gets overwhelmed by algorithmic chaos.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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