- What does it mean for a teenager to have a negative self-image and low self-esteem? How might it affect them?
- Why do we focus on social media and not on other media and formats like movies and advertisements? Didn't the same thing happen before social media existed?
- Do you think that if we reduced our social media use we would have better mental health?
- How can we help a teenager realize that they shouldn't compare themselves to people who aren't real? What can we tell them?
- What can I say to my son to help him accept his body?
- Can't wanting to eat well, exercise, and look good also be a positive thing?
- Can we detect at home when an obsession with image and a cult of beauty starts to become a problem?
- My daughter has anorexia and it seems that she's finding profiles on social media that encourage and exacerbate this disorder. Should I forbid her from going online? How can I monitor her?
- How can we boost our children's self-esteem, beyond social media?
- Filters that remove wrinkles or reduce body mass allow us to change our appearance and create a persona we're not. Could this lead us to increasingly avoid personal contact in order to conceal our true selves?
- Why do we always talk about teenagers? Doesn't it affect adults?
- Do you know of any initiatives with good results for addressing this issue in schools?
- Can social pressure to always be happy lead to depression?
- Can celebrities talking about their mental health disorders create a trend or trivialize them?
- If I notice that my daughter is discriminating against someone because of their appearance, what can I do or say to her?
- What can I do if I see that a girl from my school is being bullied through social media?
- It seems that we parents are always blamed for our children's use of social media or for whether or not they have good self-esteem.
- My daughter loves wearing makeup and posting her makeup routines on social media. Could this be harmful, or should I think it's normal?
Can social pressure to always be happy lead to depression?
Depression, like all mental disorders, is a multifactorial condition. Therefore, a single causal relationship cannot be established that can, by itself, explain the onset of a disorder.
That said, social pressure to experience and express only pleasant emotions is indeed a risk factor for the development of emotional regulation difficulties , which in turn underlie a large number of mental disorders.
I take this opportunity to remind everyone that all emotions serve a biopsychosocial function and that they must be experienced, expressed, and processed.
The culture of radical positivism, the suppression of uncomfortable emotional states, the culture of effort or "it all depends on you" often have a negative impact on both the emotional regulation of the general population and the mental health of the population that is going through a disorder.