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64. Is Facebook Bad for Your Mental Health?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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How to Measure Mental Health in Colleges

Nearly one in five adults in the U.S. and half of all adolescents live with mental illness. The most affected conditions are depression and anxiety. Immediately after Facebook comes to a particular college, you observe a bump in the mental health problems among students at that college. We'll also look at how social media platforms are trying not only to mitigate harm, but to improve users' mental health.

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