How Social Media Shapes Your Mind : The Hidden Impact on Mental Health

"Factors related to the incidence of eating disorders in adolescents include biological, psychological, as well as environmental and sociocultural factors". (Sempaga, 2021) 

"The phenomenon that shows the role of social media in forming a negative body image can occur due to the unique features of social media, one of which is the ability of social media features to provide effects that can cause manipulation of photos or videos uploaded and displayed on social media. Negative body image is known to be able to affect the physical and psychological health of teenagers, because of the tendency of teenagers to experience stress and depression, withdraw from social environments, experience anxiety, have low self-confidence, and trigger a reluctance to eat regularly or change eating habits, because perception and dissatisfaction with one's body image can trigger health problems, namely eating disorders". (Tunga, 2022) 

6. Schizophrenia 

Schizophrenia is a critical mental or mental disorder, where this disorder will affect the way you think, feel and even act. Social media can also affect schizophrenia sufferers because it can trigger hallucinations due to the content contained in it, besides that it can also help sufferers from cyberbullying on social media. Because sufferers of this disorder usually have symptoms such as hallucinations and inappropriate thinking. 

"This type of schizophrenia mental disorder is a serious mental disorder, which is characterized by disorders of thought, language, perception and self-awareness. According to Basic Health Research (Riskesdas) in 2013, the prevalence of serious mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, was 1.7 per 1000 population or around 400,000 people." (Wardhani et al., 2017) 

Based on the explanation above, it shows that the use of social media must still be considered even though social media can have quite a lot of positive impacts such as increasing creativity, adding insight, and expanding the circle of friends, but if there are no restrictions on its use, it can have a negative impact, especially on the mental health of its users such as depression, anxiety, social media addiction, FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), schizophrenia, and eating disorders. 

The points that have been explained in this article are very important to note both for now and for the future. In the digital era where people cannot be separated from their gadgets, and if left without supervision or limits, it can have a serious negative impact on its users. 

Thus, it can be concluded that in today's digital era, it has become a necessity for many people to be actively involved in using social media. Indeed, the use of social media can provide quite a lot of benefits and convenience in everyday life if its use is still reasonable.  

The use of social media does provide many benefits and convenience for everyday life, but if its use is not supervised or there is no clear boundary then social media can have a bad impact such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders, social media addiction, FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), and schizophrenia. Therefore, it is important for the community to pay attention to the adverse effects of social media in order to minimize the adverse effects of social media.