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FOMO: the effects of social anxiety in the social media age.
When I was in my twenties I had huge FOMO (the fear of missing out). I felt left out at times, missing the “cool” events and not having the right connections. This only heightened when I became a mother, I felt like my world went in another direction than everyone else. My mind, body and soul was no longer the same, and my depression grew as social media took over our lives. I remember how Facebook began my fear of missing out on love, as everyone I knew was getting engaged and married, or the photoshop craze that took over Instagram made me hate my life and especially my body.…