In my opinion social-media as a whole is a leading cause for depression and anxiety in today's modern era. As we all know people only post the best moments (the highlights) of their life for you to view. We see these public displays of their "amazing" life and for some reason may think that their life is so much cooler or better than your own. You then quickly become unhappy or unsatisfied with your own, you want what they have, you want to be doing what they're doing, you want more. But what we don't see are the struggles and hardships those people are also enduring at those exact moments. People are scared to be vulnerable for fear of what others will think of them, so instead of being real, people only reveal these highlights of their life in an attempt to feel better and mask any pain or anxiety's they might be dealing with. We all know this about social media, so why does it continue to bother and influence your mindset. You don't know the struggles of that person day in or day out. There's no perfect person, no one person that doesn't have any problems. Sometimes it's very easy to get so caught up in other people's lives that you forget to take care of your own. I think you would be surprised at the conversations I've had with some truly gifted and special people that have the same fears, struggles, and anxiety issues that anyone else deals with, but you would never know because all that is kept behind closed doors. Just realize you're not the only one that struggles, everyone else does too. - Jakob Owens