Your Phone Is Shaping Your Reality: PSMU Part 1

Your phone can make the world feel like it’s falling apart, even when your actual life is mostly okay. That gap between reality and perception is where stress, anxiety, and burnout thrive, and it’s why we’re kicking off a multi-part series on problematic social media use and digital wellbeing. We walk through Mean World Syndrome, the psychological effect where repeated exposure to negative media makes the world seem far more dangerous than it is. Then we unpack the Scar Experiment, a strikin...