186 x 186mm, 6 pages, Colour printing, Unbound, 2026

With over 6 billion internet users globally spending an average 18 hours and 36 minutes weekly on digital networking platforms. Social Media is a significant contributor to mental health disorders such as Depression, Anxiety, ADHD, Body Dysmorphia, Self-Harm, and Suicide.

A typical online adult spends roughly 16 percent of waking hours scrolling social and video feeds. One of the central dangers of social media lies in how it is engineered to be addictive. Platforms use reward feedback loops to fuel dopamine addiction to keep users scrolling. Over time, what begins as habitual use can morph into compulsive behaviour as users find it difficult to cut back. Many researchers move their discussions towards the issue of spiritual degeneration, or a collapse of community and communion in the digital era. 

With 100% of all profits from sales of this publication are donated to the mental health charity Mind.

Written and Illustrated by Transpersonal integrative psychotherapist and artist, Marita Fox.

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