{"id":31874,"date":"2025-02-11T05:25:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T11:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wholehealthchicago.com\/blog\/?p=31874"},"modified":"2025-02-11T05:25:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T11:25:32","slug":"grumpy-feeling-like-you-might-snap-stop-posting-your-opinions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wholehealthchicago.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/11\/grumpy-feeling-like-you-might-snap-stop-posting-your-opinions","title":{"rendered":"GRUMPY? FEELING LIKE YOU MIGHT SNAP? STOP POSTING YOUR OPINIONS!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve read about the anxiety and depression, especially among teenagers, as they dealt with humiliation and bullying on Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms. Also important, how their depression dramatically improved once they signed off the platforms and didn\u2019t return.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response to reports of \u2018anger,\u2019 \u2018feeling more on edge,\u2019 and other terms of \u2018tension,\u2019 a Harvard University psychiatrist, Ron Perlis, M.D., working with a psychologist and statistician, devised an interesting questionnaire which, thanks to the wonders of the internet, they were able to distribute to almost 50,000 people and ask them about \u201canger\u201d and \u201cposting online.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The results of Dr. Perlis\u2019 report appear this week in one of the Journal of the <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2828803?utm_source=silverchair%20&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=article_alert-jamanetworkopen&amp;utm_content=mthlyforyou%20&amp;utm_term=020225&amp;adv=001611680488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">American Medical Association publications<\/a> and I thought it\u2019s worthwhile as a <a href=\"https:\/\/wholehealthchicago.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Health Tip<\/a> because, well, being \u201cangry,\u201d isn\u2019t good for you. In fact, after you finish this article and guess that you might be one 46% who write \u2018angry posts\u2019 online, go back and read this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apa.org\/topics\/stress\/body\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">article<\/a> from the American Psychological Association on the umpteen ways, from your brain to your immune system, from hair growth to your intestines, that stress affects your body.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statisticians asked about users of four platforms: Facebook,Twitter\/X, Instagram and Tik-Tok. Many used multiple platforms. Divided users by age, race, gender, income, area of U.S. Separated users into \u201cpassive\u201d (\u201cI read stuff or look at photos\u201d) or \u201cactive\u201d (\u201cI write stuff\u201d). And, of course, how many times a day? How many hours a day?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And asked questions about their emotions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The average age: 46&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Woman: 58%&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Men: 40%&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nonbinary 1.1%&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>White 66%&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Black 14%&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hispanic 13%&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reported use of social media several times a day 39%&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reported use of social media <strong>most of the day 25%&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPlease indicate how often you have felt or behaved in the following ways, during the past two weeks, including today.\u201d<sup> <\/sup>These 5 statements include, \u201cI have been grumpy,\u201d \u201cI have been feeling like I might snap,\u201d \u201cOther people have been getting on my nerves,\u201d \u201cThings have been bothering me more than they normally do,\u201d and \u201cI have been feeling irritable.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You can see where this is heading:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Social media users, regardless of platform, who were online for longer hours and posted most frequently, experienced progressively worsening irritability, anger, getting ready to snap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Understand, these were data collectors, not therapists. 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