Scrolling, Connecting, Comparing – Social Media and Your Mental Health Mental Health Awareness Week 2026

Scrolling, Connecting, Comparing – Social Media and Your Mental Health Mental Health Awareness Week 2026

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, and this year’s theme is loneliness – which turns out to be exactly the right lens through which to look at social media. Because depending on how you use it, the same platform can make you feel more connected to the world or more alone in it. Sometimes both, on the same Tuesday afternoon.