Over the last decade, there has been a significant cultural change that is now global. It is the norm now to spend time each day checking your social media feeds, but how do we know if we have a healthy relationship with our social media and our mobile devices?
Scrolling through your social media posts is fine and perfectly normal, albeit time-consuming and not always very productive but, for some, social media has become a full on addictive habit, often used as a mechanism to cope with or provide a distraction from stress.
Do you find you have an uncontrollable urge to continually check your social media? When that notification pings up, can you resist? Has it already distracted you from the task you were in the middle of? I think we can all be guilty of this, however when your mobile device starts taking over, it's time to take back control.
Suzy Beaumont, Personal Development Consultant, Founder of Change Your World and Change Your World Every Day, and Psychotherapist and Mindset Coach, Kamalyn Kaur were interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland this week about the impact of too much social media and what having a PC in your pocket is doing to you and your mental health.
