social media is ruining your mental health
remember to take care of yourself 🙂
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RESOURCES:
Su*cide and Crisis Hotline – 988 https://chat.988lifeline.org/
Crisis Hotline- Text HOME to 741741 and you’ll be connected to a trained Crisis Counselor.
The Trevor Project- Call 1-866-488-7386 or text START to 678678. A national 24-hour, toll free confidential suicide hotline for LGBTQ youth.
National Alliance for ED Helpline- 1 (866) 662-1235
FREE ED recovery mentor interest form- https://anad.org/get-help/request-a-recovery-mentor/ (form requests opening Jan 25, 2015)
ED support groups- https://anad.org/get-help/about-our-support-groups/
Helping a loved one struggling with ED- https://www.allianceforeatingdisorders.com/for-loved-ones/
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timestamps
00:00 intro
01:04 my start with social media
04:25 spon
05:24 start of social media toxicity
09:51 modern day social media toxicity
20:27 big sis chat
37:36 outro
tags: social media sucks lol, ashwagandha gummies, tiktok shop, tumblr, myspace, xanga, emo myspace, weight loss toxicity, diet culture
@allietricaso
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
The feedback on this video is so beautiful, the COMMENT SECTION IS SO BEAUTIFUL!!!! All of you sharing your stories is so so so appreciated and is making my heart so full. Thank you everyone. Please remember if needed there are resources in the description, the texting numbers have personally helped me a lot and I hope you can have a lovely experience as well💗 please everyone keep fighting and remember the sun will shine for you soon~
@AlexKeyes299
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
I mean this nicely. I grew up with all of this and was never SO STUPID TO DO ANY OF IT. We need to be taking responsibility for ourselves as well if we want to be saying parents are responsible for their children then. We did have easy access, stop pretending we had it better. There was litetally less moderation and more hate on the internet. If anything kids have more tools to protect themselves. The idea these kids are being harmed by something other than themselves is an absolute joke. I have 0 room for hate and 0 room for excuses as well. No one deserves to be put down but everyone deserves 5 mins off the pc.
@itwasmedionysus
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
"banning hashtags helped" right right… lets ask FB how many moderators the country of Myanmar needs.
@itwasmedionysus
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
….my parents literally knew about social media and the dangers and we're the similar ages Allie. I had to hack the computer for that information. I was on Bebo bc I wasn't allowed on FB. Parental controls existed for phones and computers during the time period you're describing. You can still implement them from the router level. It's legitimately not difficult and I am 100% okay blaming the parents who should have made their child hack of they want access to information.
@FREEZER0413
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
You are a beautiful human being for this video. I struggled with my look and size my whole life (6'5 about 260 lb) and it took me half my life to finally let go and just be comfortable in my own skin. Im new to this channel, but you definitely have a forever fan in me❤
@Jay-wm1rp
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
i feel heard and spoken to. I won't give my life story, but thank you for making this. Hang in there, you're doing so well.
@doomdaizytft
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
deleted everything today. was torn and afraid to lose the progress of the likes and growth but it is not worth losing the progress I have made within myself.
@oziecortes1584
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
Thank you Allie 💚
@greenflagracing7067
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
I wonder what your generation is going to do about this when you have kids. I'm guessing: nothing.
@factorial2323
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
i hate the perfectionism. i hate the consumerism. i hate working every day. i hate people expecting something from me. i hate not having just free time without thinking anything. i hate ai. i hate social media. i hate my job even though i choose it and i keep learning on the same field. i hate the world as it keeps getting worse. i'm just tired and sad all the time.
@EstherPillay-l8r
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
I am on your channel for the first i really enjoyed your video you seem like such a beautiful soul❤and I know that you are in alot of Pain I am truly sorry about that
@TheRKG1337
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
Damn this just confirms my fears bout big Therapy brainwashing kids into developing mental illness through social media consumption,
@SarutaValentine
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
I would like to say that for those who don’t know, there’s a resource called a ‘warm line’. It’s a place you call when you’re struggling and just need to talk to someone, or just need some peer support. The hotline is crisis, but the warm line is a step below that; struggling but not in danger. More people should know about that. I only learned in the last few years and it has really helped me on hard days
@personanormal
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
man i watched this video when it came out and it genuinIy Ieft a mark on me and i steeI rememeber it to this day (witch isnt comon IoI) soooooo thanks for upIoading this
@darrens3
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
The Roman Nose to pointy nose thing is just racism and eugenics by calipers wierdos dressed up as cosmetics.
@kai-rr4zm
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
haven't watched the video yet but i js wanted to say that i've noticed people are generally so much more meaner on social platforms than they are in real life. people have said the most digusting and unimaginably hateful things to me on social media for things as simple as calling out white supremacy. so yeah, social media is heavily detached from reality and the people who bully you there are just a bunch of cowards w a pea sized brain. stay off social media, protect your peace.
@I_hate_everything851
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
Please make a video about lemon8 people say it encourages eds unrealistic faces and bodies if you see the ads on tiktok they literally show things like "my body before I discovered lemom8" and because people were saying how wrong it is they turned off the comments on the apps posts I think it's the modern version of some of these apps advertised as "Pinterest and tiktok in one"
@jacobfolk9192
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
i really hope that youre healing 🤟 this helped me.
@jadenpotts4389
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
you took a very mature approach to this video, respec. stay alive and stay safe! much love <3
@Ashton_Star
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
Back when I was in 7th grade, I was going through a shit ton of bullying. I was very suicidal, I cut myself, had an ED, and much more. I only really ate around 400 calories a day. It was so hard to break out of that, but every moment I decided to scratch out the calorie number, every night I cried, was so incredibly worth it. Every little thing counts. Don't try to rush recovery, it'll make it feel impossible. I promise, it is possible to get better, and one day you'll be able to look in the mirror and smile. Don't give up, you're not alone. Please talk to someone you trust; you deserve help; there are many hotlines that you can call or text anonymously. Please don't try to fight this on your own. You'll be okay, I know it's hard, but never give up. I promise, people will miss you greatly, and life will get better, even if you don't think so. You're not alone.
Suicide hotline: 988
ED hotline: (855) 387-4378
Other sources
Hotline (text or call, completely anonymous): http://www.thetrevorproject.com
Anonymous vent source: http://www.supportiv.com
Stay safe, always remember you are loved. <3
@frankarildklockbrttemsmo6141
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
This is the most accurate and beautiful telling of how reality is that I have ever heard ❤ I have always been told that I am not good enough, not smart enough and not that successful. The problem I had/have is that its not from sosial media or society but from ME.. I have just been served accomplishment after accomplishment from the universe, heard that I am great, that was good and that my ideas and so on is really good. But none of that matters when I feel that I aint done anything that really is better then anybody else.
Yes, I were there, yes I did that and yes I have fixed, helped, given complements and helped people up. So what? I am still sitting here. I am still me. And I have found out that ADHD is not it. ADD, no..
What MY problem is I have called HAD… Hyperactive Attention Disorder
That is the worst kind, they just dont understand it yet. That there is a disorder where the problem is that you see to much, understand to much and is constantly see to much, see everything NOT done, see all the defects and failures that normal people can't..
Being to smart is a curse and especially when you are smart enough to understand how STUPID you are..
Deep shit.. Depressing.. Back to happyfacy😄
But really! Great video 👍🏼
@ParkerCNG
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
27:07, dangit
@AndrewImai
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU0Tnh49uZY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMylsQmyHy4&t=276s&pp=0gcJCbIJAYcqIYzv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7O2OAE_eXM
@Bradke_4_lyfe
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
and the sun helps with serotonin production so people susceptible to depression when they lose that serotonin it can dysregulate emotions causing depression, because serotonin helps with emotional regulation(hence why ssris are used for depression, and all antidepressants inhibit the re-uptake of serotonin), anyways tiktok really ruined my metal last year, with my depression bullying and both homicidal/suicidal thoughts, after discovering a song by a band i love(the song is columbine massacred by 8 bit suicide) which got me into researching columbine which lead me to the columbine effect where i discovered people like adam lanza who i empathized with due to his severe mental health struggles, this lead me into a fandom know as tcc(true crime community) where i found other people who also liked people like adam, some who id become friends with, i would be very open with my interest in mass shootings (minus the idealization of some) and though i was and still am very against it, me dressing alternative and being bullied and depressed would lead to a rumor where one of my bullies accused me of having a hitlist in russian(i didnt and dont and never will), which got me repeatedly called down to the office, and my mom and her bf asking me if i had a manifesto, and ending with a police visit and suspension for the rest of my 8th grade year, on june 2nd of last year one of the friends i made who also liked adam would be rambling about elliot rodger and alyssa bustamate(2 killers who i hated and still and will always hate) which i would argue with her about, this argument leading no where would cause me to have a rage attack where id get so mad that i would attempt suicide by overdosing on acetaminophen, now this was just the trigger as id already had suicidal ideation due to the suicide of my father who i was very close with, my emotionally and verbally abusive mother and her bf, and the constant bullying id go through every day, sense i felt alone and had few friends this being one of them made me feel completely alone which would trigger my suicidality where i would take exactly 36 acetaminophen pills and cut my arms legs and stomach while having mass shooter david katz name all over my right leg, i hadnt known it was acetaminophen until i got to the hospital, because id overdosed on it a month or few prior, this overdose would cause me to have a olfactory hallucination both times, this smell is what got me to get a friend of mine to call an ambulance for me(cuz i couldnt on my phone), i would be hospitalized for 5 days then transfered to a psych ward for 13 days, where id feel more isolated than before, in these 18 days i would only go outside to be taken to the hospital and transfered to the psych ward, i would have no friends during my stay, all this due to a tiktok?tumbl/forum community known as tcc
@rileymcneill5107
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
More people need to see this.
@satinwhistle
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
I watched big sis chapter and started balling my eyes out
@ZahraKamish
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
U basically telling ppl that Social Media is bad but u on Social Media ur self btw You Tube is all so a social platform
@usamirena
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
i know this video is from 5 months ago and i probably look really dumb commenting this, but i needed to hear this and thanks for making this video. i don’t personally struggle with an ed but ive been on shblr a lot in the past and have permanent scars because of it. my past friends who i just began to move on from have started stalking and harassing me and telling me to start doing it again. im getting better but sometimes i want to get worse to feel like i earned it. but this genuinely helped me so much, thank you
@IDKaNAMEE
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
nuh uh
@sniperdoge44
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
As someone who can relate to using the internet for community, I see a lot of like SHEDtwt stuff (I don't really interact) and they are getting smarter! They have groups and use like codewords-ish stuff. No one really talks about it to us other than online too.
@yeahitsdrew
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
“You are not your parent’s decision.” I actually appreciate that a lot I’ve been going through issues with my father, who’s been very controlive and manipulative ever since I moved out and got a place with my S/O. Thanks for that.
@00ajbeast95
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
this might be weird but this is probably my favorite video i've ever watch. I think it's because as a guy who just turned 20 and i relate to so much of what you said. this might be one of those videos i watch when i'm feeling low. i wish the best for you and everyone who doesn't believe in themself. you got this everyone
@azure_awesome
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
my little sister, who’s 11, is really kind and fun to hang out with. she has unrestricted internet access, and recently she joined discord. the first thing i noticed was that she “typed like ts” and “Not like this.” Now she’s one of those people that self diagnoses and bs. man fml
@azure_awesome
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
i dropped my fries while listening to this
the fries are my fav part 🙁
@ShaylaD-rq4ty
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
Glad I permanently deleted all of my social media. Snapchat I am just taking a break from it. I do not know when the next time I’ll be back on Snapchat. I know it is not good for my mental health.
@TMMDI
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
While I've never really gotten deep in the rabbit hole that it pro ED content online, it was so insanely easy for me to find even when I was never interacting with these communities. I was even putting them in my DNI as a teenager.
Despite that, even those tiny bits of exposure screwed me up. I had developed anorexica outside of social media, however even the tiniest glimpses stuck in my head. I remember screenshotting unhealthy tips and following them to the t. It really goes to show how toxic and dangerous these communities are.
I really appreciate this video and my heart aches for everyone else who can relate with the struggles of an eating disorder or early substance use. I'm so sorry you had to go through that as well, your compassion and empathy for others really shows in your channel and I don't think this topic could've been handled better then it was in this. Here's to your, and everyone else in this comment sections' recovery. ❤ While I'm still working on myself, with time and patience I'm slowly getting better. I'll be 24 this year, and last year i finally managed to not be underweight anymore! Just remember everyone goes at their own pace, you will get where you deserve to be eventually.
@averagecabb4ge
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
I really wish i could call my grandma again, i loved this video i feel like it really resonated with me
@Highrollinhunter
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
Im turning 22 in December when I discovered social media around 14 or 15 it ruined my life because I used to have a great friend group on Xbox Live before just being terminally online on Instagram and Discord.
@Pirate-Stoke101
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
I'm a writer. I live for my books, & I've been writing since I was 9. I use therapy, & my therapist has pointed out how healthy it is to deal through my mental health with my writing.
She's noticed how much I've grown as both a writer & person, & I just adore how writing through my feelings makes me feel. It gives me so much comfort to write my situations that I have on the daily through my books.
If I ever finish a book (😂), I'd love to have others feel those emotions resonate through my words. It's such a beautiful thing. Thank you for your kind words!
@brookpitch3665
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
I just started watching your videos, and I have to say, they make me laugh and smile all the time! Thank you for sharing such great content!
@matthewadams333
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
I hope you realize that you are a beautiful person!! I love what you do, keep it up!! I went through alot of the same things just from the male perspective and during the old days. Therapy has saved my life and I think everyone could benefit from it. Most places work on a sliding scale so it's fairly affordable. Your a great voice of reason and you do your followers right and I really hope you have great success in your endeavors. ❤
@Chillin_Man
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
I deeply wanna thank u ❤️
@AndrewWoods-s2d
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
This video honestly is inspiring me to finally get therapy even though I’ve been putting it off!
On another note. Thank you for sharing all that with us. I’m sure I speak for everyone here… if WE, YOUR FANS, can help you in ANY WAY, please lean on us! We’ll do what we can!!! – xoxo ❤😢
@strawberryberett
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
i come back to this video when social media causes me to feel insecure, because i compare myself to others and bring myself down too much. thank you, allie. your words truly mean so much. 🩷🫧
@annoar97
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
same. ❤
@Kinkamo
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
thank you for this video. im in the beginning of transitioning and been in probably the darkest time of my life. this video made realize the darkness i think i've been putting on myself as well as whats just there in the world
@MarilynManson4life
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
When I went to therapy I was told by the therapist it wouldn't help me
@crustybatteryacid5313
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
Incredibly powerful video. Thank you.
@dogbunns
August 14, 2025 at 6:44 am
Allie! I've been a fan for a long while, I hope things have been getting better. Same here, the last few months have been rough mentally and I'm not even sure why. It really does feel like I'm burnt out on life most days. It's rough, but life does go on. Everyone will heal at their own pace. You make amazing videos that touch thousands of people, and personally given that I grew up in the late 90s early 2000s, so many of your topics are very relatable, and you have such an awesome personality talking about them.
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