Hannah Rose, LCPCOwner, Rose Wellness · Founder | Therapist | Educator | Consultant

Loneliness & Social Media

14 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Hannah Rose. This content was uploaded by Hannah Rose. This is a YouTube video titled "Loneliness & Social Media" (created 2025-03-14). The excerpt is a first-person spoken reflection/monologue by a single speaker (labelled SPEAKER A) discussing personal experiences with social media, loneliness, the need to be seen and validated, and how childhood lack of attention shaped reliance on external validation. The content reads like a personal talk or reflective piece about mental health and social media use.

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Loneliness and social media go hand in hand, and I'm gonna speak about my experiences, right? So if you have social media, which I'm sure you do, otherwise how did you find this? I have found through countless times of like taking time away from it and then coming back and trying to moderate and use it mindfully that like it just doesn't serve me. And people would say, you know, oh my God, like what are you even up to? You're off the grid. And that's what it did feel like at first. I genuinely had some weird like existential dynamics internally of like, does anything I do matter if people can't see it? Which is such an intense and important question because it illuminates this core complex I had of I need it to be seen in order for it to be true for me. Because that for me is what social media is. It's like, oh, if I didn't receive enough nurture or attention as a child, there's a part of me that's like, look at me, I just want to be seen. I want to be validated. I want to be liked. I want you to know that I'm enough because unless you think I'm enough, I can't think I'm enough. And that was my experience in relationship with social media.