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How do young people use digital media to manage their mental health after Covid-19?

Covid-19 had a huge impact when it comes to young people. These are the people whose lives were affected as they were been forced to stay at home for a longer time. Their studies were damaged with this their involvement in physical activities was reduced causing big issues related to mental and physical health.

They needed emotional support due to the effect of this pandemic causing mental damages. Through that time, the internet and digital media played a very important in making the young generation get stressed. How? Well, you would get the answer to this question in this article.

How does Covid-19 affect the mental health of young people?

The COVID-19 pandemic’s protracted isolation and loneliness worsen the cognitive consequences of trauma and ambiguity on physical and mental disorders, raising stress, anxiety, and eating problems.

This is particularly important for teenagers, as youth is already linked to an increased risk of victimization. Youths’ social cognitive processes are trigged relative to kids and adults, prompting them to depend largely on peer acceptance to acquire validation, feel self-confident, and minimize insecurity. Sentiments of loneliness may increase among adolescents when all physical interactions are cut off during a pandemic, which may be typically negatively correlated to cheerful feelings.

At this time, as people were far away from one another, there was a need for ways of interaction in which digital media played a very good part in bringing the change.

Even though social internet can magnify unpleasant feelings among all individuals with the same social media platform. However, there is a ray of hope as to use it as a method of managing negative emotions provoked by the COVID-19 issue (Pretorius & Coyle, December, 2021)

How digital media can play a positive part in mental health?

Youth is generally in a period of huge transformations, but these were compounded much more challenging during the epidemic. And new tech was right in the thick of it all for this age category.
Some experts feel that social media contributes to young people’s anxiety by demotivating them from other pursuits, pushing them to turn to social media by default.

How digital media can play a positive part in mental health?

Youth is generally in a period of huge transformations, but these were compounded much more challenging during the epidemic. And new tech was right in the thick of it all for this age category. Some experts feel that social media contributes to young people’s anxiety by demotivating them from other pursuits, pushing them to turn to social media by default.

Youngsters generally are considerably more likely to think that social media has a good rather than an adverse effect on their mental lives, and the scale has moved even further in that direction since 2018.
Young people suffering from depression, as well as those at risk of developing substance abuse problems, are particularly inclined to make online contacts with providers. It may have needed an epidemic to kick-start the usage of telehealth, but now it has, it certainly appears that it will result in long-term changes in how the treatment is delivered. This technology can assist young people by meeting a therapist and other provider visits more accessible, as well as improving access to culturally competent treatment that may not be available in a particular community (Victoria, et al., 2021).

Conclusion

Young people are born in an era where digital media has captured all the attention. Therefore, they are highly been affected by this. This article has highlighted the effects and how digital media has helped make a prominent difference in people’s lives, especially for the youth.

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