Understanding Social Media Fatigue: A Wellness Perspective

7 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Heather Hester. This content was uploaded by Heather Hester. This is a YouTube video titled "Understanding Social Media Fatigue: A Wellness Perspective" (uploaded 2025-04-07). The excerpt is a spoken wellness segment in which a single speaker advises strategies for managing social media-related vulnerability—avoid reading comments when feeling fragile, check in with your emotional and bodily state (e.g., shoulders), and be strict about boundaries around social platforms. Metadata includes a thumbnail and the YOUTUBE content type.

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So just staying out of the comments— I know, much easier said than done— would be my clearest advice around that. And, and I know that it's not black and white, so maybe it's about checking in with yourself and how are you doing today, how are you feeling in this moment. If you're feeling particularly vulnerable, then I would suggest stay right off social media if you can. Um, but if you can't, or if you don't want to, then make sure that's a time that you really are strict with yourself to stay out of the comments. I'm already feeling vulnerable going into the comments. It has a risk of making me feel worse. Yeah. Yeah. Doing a bit of a check-in with yourself, like, how are you feeling in your body? You know, how are the shoulders feeling?