Common symptoms include anxiety, depression, isolation, loneliness and obsessive worry. Chronic sufferers of depression, Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and other mental disorders are more prone to an existential crisis.

Causes of an existential crisis can be the death of a loved one, ...

Since it’s a relatively new technology, there’s little research to establish the long-term consequences, good or bad, of social media use. However, multiple studies have found a strong link between heavy social media and an increased risk for depression, anxiety, loneliness,

• Too much media multitasking causes cognitive overload, which interferes with learning.
• Heavy multimedia users were more distracted and did not perform attentional tasks as well compared to light multimedia users.
• Heavy smartphone u...