When was the last time you went a full day without checking your Facebook, Instagram or Twitter? Would you feel depressed or not know what to do with yourself? If you did not know by now social media is addictive! It is also linked to your mental health and can cause problems such as depression, anxiety and effect your long term health.  I will be the first to tell you I am addicted to social media and not in a good way! I am not sure there can even be a good way. I can spend hours scrolling through Instagram staring at curated pictures of women I envy. Their over saturated photos, beautiful makeup, perfect bodies and perfect appearing lives. I then sit there contemplating how are they so perfect? How do they have so many followers? What makes them so special and not me? Well guess what! NOTHING!! And you want to know what this does for me? Absolutely nothing but make me depressed and dissatisfied with my own life. It takes away from me enjoying and being present in my own life. It takes away my time from enjoying my family, getting outside and loving my self.

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