S5, Ep 2 Best Friend Therapy: Perfectionism - Is it about control? How does it hold us back? Can we learn to be good enough?
Dial Emma
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The Importance of Social Media in Mental Health
For many of us, lockdown happened and we were confronted only too viscerally with the everyday uncontrollable imperfection of our lives. We all had to kind of get so much more apprised with the language of mental health because there was no hiding it. I remember finding a couple of Instagram accounts that really helped me through that time. And one of them was social media versus reality, where they take pictures of celebrities that have been airbrushed with an inch of their lives and compare it with how they actually look in an unguarded moment. To try and compare yourself to that level of perfection is always going to leave you feeling that you're not worthy.
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