How Social Media Triggers Abandonment — healing abandonment with Susan Anderson

I think we’re more vulnerable than we used to be, especially young people whose self image is just forming and are impressionable by what other people think.

Transcript:

Social media triggers abandonment. You know, that feeling of not having the life that everyone else seems to be having or not being liked as many…as much as other people are being liked or feeling excluded when friends are having a party.

You know, it causes inflammation in that raw abandonment nerve that we all have. And that nerve once inflamed is so easy to bump into so that we’re more vulnerable to anything that happens to us during the day because we’re already set to feel a little bit behind because of social media, where we stand on Facebook and all of these different sites.

I think we’re more vulnerable than we used to be, especially young people whose self-image is just forming and who are so impressionable by what other people think.

Originally published at https://www.abandonment.net on October 10, 2023.