How to Make Social Media Less Addictive: It's very difficult to completely stop using social media. Many people are unable to do so even if they want to. For such people, methods to reduce their use ...

If you've been thinking of leaving social media, it might improve your mental health. Source: Photo from fauxels on Pixabay. A new, small-scale clinical trial randomly assigned people to stop using ...

Screen time. Child insomnia. Late night chat. Internet addiction. Sleepless girl texting communicating on smartphone hiding under blanket in bed at home. Whatever you spend the most time doing will ...

Wed, April 22, 2026 at 11:00 PM UTC "It really helps to treat social media as a tool rather than your default habit of choice," says Michael S. Valdez, MD, medical director at Detox California. "With ...

Young adults who engaged in a social media “detox” reported reductions in depression, anxiety and insomnia, though it was unclear how long the effects would last. By Ellen Barry Dialing down the use ...

Is the only way to avoid the toxicity and relentless negativity of social media to get out? Maybe, says Sky LaRell Anderson, who teaches at the University of St. Thomas. “The first thing I recommend ...

While most youth around the world are happier today than they were 20 years ago, it’s not true for the United States, other English-speaking countries and parts of Western Europe. That’s according to ...