Some people have posited that after Instagram became ubiquitous around 2010, 2012, mental health immediately worsened. But at least for self-harm and suicides, that's not really what we see across the board in every countryFor everyone. Some countries like American Britain definitely did see increases in suicides in self-harm starting around 2010,. Other countries followed different trends. In Sweden, there was a sharp rise in self- harm hospitalizations around 2006, 2007 before it plateaued in 2010 For most of the next decade, self-harm rates were flat until COVID. Even in a couple countries, rates of self-harm hospitalization didn't really rise at all.