Social Media Addiction: Signs, Risks, and Science-Backed Ways to Reclaim Balance
Social media can connect us, inform us, and help us feel less alone. But for some people, scrolling and checking become hard to control—interfering with sleep, mood, focus, relationships, and self-esteem. Researchers often call this problematic social media use (PSMU), a pattern that can look and feel “addictive” even though “social media addiction” is not…