The negative effects of social media have a lasting effect on humans’ psychiatric processes and can trigger certain emotions that develop into mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety. At George Mason University, I wish to conduct research on how social media contributes to teenage depression and anxiety. I am interested in this topic because of my experience with social media contributing to mental illnesses. I have been diagnosed as clinically depressed coupled with anxiety disorder, and my psychiatrist suspects that one of the triggers that generated my disorders was being bullied through social media in middle school. I never contemplated that being bullied could cause such a devastating disease as depression, or anxiety, or even
