Stop being desperate

An easy way for youngsters to attract attention on social media is to fall into any extreme category. Adolescents and young adults have two broad choices - either portray themselves as very exciting, grand, inflated, successful and charismatic, or show their weak, dejected and broken side - nothing in between works. Hi! This is Pulkit Sharma. I'm a clinical psychologist, psychoanalytic therapist, spiritual counselor and author in Pondicherry, India practicing since 2008. In recent times, I've been seeing this dark side of social media influencing youngsters who are coming to me for psychological help.

In a bid to chase likes, retweets, shares, comments and increase their number of followers, I often find that these youngsters unconsciously develop the habit of turning molehills into mountains and their normal life into a cinematic saga. Consequently, they lose their mental health and develop long-term temperamental and personality difficulties.

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